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Sex the City the Music: Moscow

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The woman on the cover appears to be passed out from too much vodka,or asleep,after listening to this album;hardly a diva who'd grace the cover of "Maxim" or "FHM." This album is boring,not sexy,and you'll fall asleep WHILE listening to this like the lingerie-clad lady.The groups Alexandroid,ULA,and Moscow Groove Insitute get two tracks each,as if the musical landscape in Moscow were that boring.

There are a few highlights-ULA's almost-Kraftwerk trance song "Just an engine",the Russian love song "Solovushka:Evening Remix",and the Moscow Groove Institute's use of native Russian music in "Kali:Higher Mix." However,one might agree with the singer Dimitri Pronin,whose strange "You killing me" sounds like the listener's response to this music.There is cool,sexy Eastern European music out there.This compilation isn't bringing sexy back to the former Soviet Union,now Russia.

I bought this on a whim and was pleasantly surprised at the variety of tunes that were on here. Some real kooky stuff, like Peter and the Wolf mashed up with BlackSea Surf Music? Some of the women vocalising on the tracks are singularly haunting, while others have the directness of a Muscovite love goddess at the ice cream stand in Progress Park. I think this is pretty remarkable and I find myself cranking some of it in my Trabant as I cruise at a smooth 45 km/h down the ekspressvei.