Soulwax
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THE REVIEW

This album is nothing more than an electronic remake of the previous rock album by the Belgian band, "Any Minute Now", except for a couple of tracks.
Reading the introduction, one might think that this album is just a game, something made for fun by a group of rockers with club inclinations (2many dj's). Well, that's not the case. Here we are faced with the best electronic album of 2005, not surprisingly written by a band that had little to do with this genre. Why not by chance? Because it is precisely the rock soul of Soulwax that allows this record to destroy the barriers that had until now separated club beats from the energy of rock riffs.

The album starts with a loop that all clubbers will instantly recognize: the piece is a cover of the legendary "Teachers" by Daft Punk. But this is just an initial tribute where you begin to hear the bass sound that will hammer our ears throughout the album. The second track is "Miserable Girl", perhaps the piece where distorted guitars and endless synths blend best together.
The third track is a remake of the very famous "E-Talking", and here too the bass explodes in a riff that, for its power, puts at serious risk the environment surrounding the place where you are listening to the record.
Tracks 4, 5, and 6 are the less successful episodes, but they pass quickly and enjoyably. The so-called calm before the storm: from the first loop of "I Love Techno", head, arms, legs, and feet cannot stay still, the bass drum forcefully enters, its dirty sounds relentlessly overlapping until the vocal citation "James Brown Is Dead", followed by the sonic explosion of the piece. Impossible not to mention the following track, "Krack", which takes the already fierce riff from the previous version and, through an enviably elastic bass, exponentially increases its charge of positive energy.
The album closes with the poor remake of "NY Excuse", already difficult to improve, and with a sort of continuation titled "Another Excuse" in which the synth amuses itself by emulating Daft Punk, and the bass picks up a very famous '80s tune, the title of which I have yet to discover.
 
Final comment: the album is five years ahead of the entire electro-rock world, and if music makes sense, this will be what we will praise in the near future.