CD Import

Happy Birthday!

Modeselektor

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159
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After their homage to their moms (Hello Mom!: BPC 115 CD/LP) and the digestion of piled-up experiences of their musical freshmen years, the arts and crafts duo Modeselektor release their second album, Happy Birthday!. This record describes the main focus of Berliners Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary: hang out together all the time. Both dudes will become fathers very soon, almost simultaneously - happy birthday! But back to their labor-pains: After 111 slashings and burnings across dancefloors from Sydney to Iceland, and driven by the ungovernable spirit of gold-diggers, Gernot and Szary holed up in their mobile Airstream caravan recording studio in order to give birth to Happy Birthday!. The conditions of production were slightly adverse, but thanks to digital transfer technology and a mild winter in Berlin, it all came together nicely in the end. The repertoire of Happy Birthday! runs from hard rap with a French kick to dubstep in the broadest sense. New urban word scraps attempt to describe Modeselektor's style: Eurocrunk, continental grime, tech-rap... The list is long. Mr. Bronsert and Mr. Szary don't like to put a genre sticker on their music anyway, so they don't really care. They just do great music, no matter what style. And another good thing - their tendency to not take themselves seriously is unbowed, so this album is great fun for everybody - moms, dads, siblings, grandparents, etc. Also features astounding contributions from Thom Yorke, Puppetmastaz, Apparat, Paul St. Hilaire, Otto Von Schirach, Siriusmo and the French rap gang, TTC, as well as a CD-only bonus track from Maxmo Park.

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    Happy Birthday!

    ¥2,399 Import(Japanese Edition) Import(Japanese Edition) 26 Dec 2009

Track List   

  • 01. Happy Birthday (04:03)
  • 02. Godspeed (05:46)
  • 03. 2000007 (04:11)
  • 04. Let Your Love Grow (05:25)
  • 05. Em Ocean (01:54)
  • 06. Sucker Pin (06:10)
  • 07. Edgar (03:53)
  • 08. Hyper Hyper (05:17)
  • 09. B.M.I. (04:29)
  • 10. Dark Side of the Frog (00:52)
  • 11. Dark Side of the Sun (03:34)
  • 12. Deboutonner (04:23)
  • 13. Black Block (05:41)
  • 14. First Rebirth (04:39)
  • 15. White Flash (04:49)
  • 16. Late Check-Out (00:38)
  • 17. Wedding Toccata Theme (03:53)
  • 18. (I Can't Sleep) Without Music (03:32) (CD Only Bonus Track)

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え?CD廃盤!?んな馬鹿な!!と、とりあえ...

投稿日:2009/02/27 (金)

え?CD廃盤!?んな馬鹿な!!と、とりあえずレビューをアナログの方に掲載させて頂きます…。マキシモ・パークやらトム・ヨークの参加(及びその後のremix)で若干話題だった今作ですが、勿論本質はそこではなく。tikimanの常連化からも、ベーチャン(正確にはrhythm&soundか)以降、ベルリンの硬派な伝統を引き継ぐ真摯な姿勢が見えますが、まるで照れ隠しのようなTTCフューチャーからも伺えるアンチ・メインストリーム/アメリカなB-BOYイズム、っちゅうか悪ガキ精神(笑)、更に悪ノリする、AFX〜電グル的テクノ伝統のヴィジュアル面ブラック・ユーモア、などなどが混然一体となり、しかしこうやっていくら固有名詞連発しようが結局追いつけない抜きん出たオリジナリティが本当に素晴らし過ぎますので、どうかどうか復刻の程を(BPITCH CONTROL自体、国内盤ライセンスしてないような気がするが…)!!

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