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I was intrigued and impressed by Planet Funk since their debut, but I hadn't delved deeper into the subject. Then a few days ago, suddenly, in a department store, in the TV-color section in front of five hundred televisions lined up in front of me and reflected all around by deceptive mirrors, to the point of seeming like five thousand, as in a techno-hypnotic dream, the beautiful video of a track with a driving rhythmic base and an overwhelming sound suddenly starts playing at full volume. I wonder: "These are great! Who could they be? Perhaps a group created by some American electronic producer, or a bunch of Northern European DJs following in the footsteps of Daft Punk or the Chemical Brothers?" And finally, it appears written at the bottom: "Planet Funk - Stop Me". Wow! These are Italian!
Now I've had the CD for a few days, and for a few days I've ventured as a novice into the dance environment, me who is definitely more of a "rocker"....but I like it. The album definitely winks at the international market, it has a well-crafted and perfectly worked-on sound, almost glossy. It seems like the result of decades of technical and musical experience, it doesn't seem like the sound of an Italian band that emerged only four years ago. There's great craftsmanship at its core and a great production behind it, and you can feel it in all thirteen tracks. Not surprisingly, the single "Stop Me", even before it came out, was already the advertisement for a famous soda in a (red) can, widely sold and highly advertised all over the world. The album opens with a beautiful track/introduction of almost two hypnotic minutes setting the stage for the subsequent and sudden explosion of the beautiful "Everyday" and "Stop Me" that follow hand in hand. Two great pieces. It continues on excellent levels, with maybe a few more tracks than necessary, but always along the line of great enjoyment. Personally, I am particularly struck, but only because of my disposition, by the slower and melancholic episodes like "Ultraviolet Days", "Inhuman Perfection" (curiously featuring the synthetic voice of Claudia Pandolfi), and Dusk, but there is certainly something to satisfy those who want to move a bit more with decidedly more dance tracks and in some cases purely Techno.
In short, in the end, an honest and well-made CD, faithful to the style it follows and perfectly realized. It costs 18 euros, is it worth it? ... The answer is subjective, but CDs really cost too much, in any case.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Everyday (04:19)
Just when I'm thinkin it was always you
The sun has gone and let the rain come through
The things I'm hearin I've already heard
But now I'm walkin in a different world
Just when I'm feelin like I'd made it through
And still had somethin that they never knew
The artificial is controllin me
And I dont' recognise a thing I see
And when it gets too late, I'll be chasin you home
And when it gets too late, I'll be chasin you home
Is this the dawning of a vacant age
I'm turnin over to a ripped up page
You look around with every step you take
'Cos someone's watchin every move you make
Is this the morning we've been waitin for
You think you're walkin through a shinin door
You wait for nothin and it never comes
At least you know you're not the only one
And when it gets too late, I'll be chasin you home
And when it gets too late, I'll be chasin you home
Everything I needed
Every Day I know
And when it gets too late, I'll be chasin you home
And when it gets too late, I'll be chasin you home
I'll be chasin you home
05 Come Alive (04:16)
Yeah
Come on inside the sound
I'm steppin outside myself
Croaking on the underground
But ever high
There you go passin me by
Like someone dropped you from the clouds
Spinnin round and round
Was it gonna fly?
You'll never know, never know, never know
'Come alive' she said don't go
Don't leave before you know
Don't get it wrong just when you could've got it right
'Come alive' she said don't go
It could be such a beautiful world
Don't get it wrong just when you could've got it right
When you could've got it right
When you could've got it right
Yeah
Steppin outside the sound
I'm fallin inside myself
Chokin on the underground
Forever high
Always within reach
But runnin too fast to care
Fakin it just for now
Was it gonna fly?
You'll never know, never know, never know
'Come alive' she said don't go
Don't leave before you know
Don't get it wrong just when you could've got it right
'Come alive' she said don't go
It could be such a beautiful world
Don't get it wrong just when you could've got it right
When you could've got it right
x2
It's just the same the same the same the same
12 Dusk (05:07)
Warm of the day fades from my skin
I feel the air clasping me tight
A moon of fire singes my skin
With rust red rim burns the eye
The cold of day filling my lungs
In this airless time numbing me blind
A moon of ice cuts into me
With fire light a flaming night
A murmuring blue soft to the touch
Suffocating me like tattered wings
Gossamer damp rests on my flesh
Like moist hands saying still be still
I'm empty inside
The dusk unwinds
Ice fills my lungs
I feel unknown unknown
A shimmering blue
It's rough to the touch
And it smothers me with tattered wings
And now I'm empty inside
The dusk will unwind
Ice fills my lungs
I feel unknown
And now I'm empty inside
The dusk will unwind
Ice fills my lungs
I feel unknown unknown
I'm invisible I'm inaudible I'm replaceable I'm unknown I'm unknown
And I'm empty inside
The dusk unwinds
I feel I feel unknown
13 Out on the Dancefloor (06:35)
Out on the dancefloor I disappear
Out on the dancefloor I am not here
Out on the dancefloor I disappear
Out on the dancefloor I am not here
I don't think, I disappear
I don't think, no stupid fears
I don't think, about my hair
I don't think, about the clothes I wear
Just drunk on the dancefloor
I push into the crowd the sound and now I'm alone
Cause I don't think about my death
I don't think I may connect
I don't think I need more money
About my body, about lovers n killers as I make it real love
Just drunk on the dancefloor
I push into the crowd the sound and now I'm alone
Like a flock of gulls
Like a raging sea
Like a tree on fire
I am free yeah an empty page
Has drawn a screamin rage
My key, 5 seconds I am free
Just drunk on the dancefloor
I push into the crowd the sound and now I'm alone
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