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| Pitchfork |
 It might be exaggerating slightly to call A-Trak a visionary, but he deserves recognition as a man who rose up to become the right DJ at the right time. His status, his profile, and his output all coincided with a late-aughts surge in this new universal club music concept, fusing the commonalities of Southern bounce, classic house, nu-electro, old-school pre-sampling hip-hop, and West Coast g-funk into an all-encompassing new urban dance music. And his patronage of that scene defined it flatteringly-- if you want to remember the late 00s fondly for some reason yet to be understood, A-Trak's first Dirty South Dance and his mix Infinity +1 should be enough to make you believe the end of the decade was actually great.So why does Fool's Gold, Vol. 1, a state-of-the-label comp showcasing the imprint he started with like-minded DJ Nick Catchdubs, feel like a debilitating hangover? As solid as the label's been in its three-plus years of releases, too much of this collection of recent material feels weirdly retrograde and a bit crass, a mushy assemblage of the obvious that feels a lot more backward-looking than the best the label has to offer. It might be too early to go ahead and say that electro-rap is on its way out, but if it is, the synth-pop affectations of Trackademicks' "The Best Stroke" and Kid Sister's warmed-over jerk slog "Don't Stop Movin'" are hollow epitaphs. There's also a Lil B track, "Freeze", that exhibits zero of whatever makes Lil B exciting; I've never heard casual gimme-head misogyny sound so bored. And if you thought CyHi da Prynce's verse on "So Appalled" was a work of sabotage, check out A-Trak's "Ray Ban Vision", an otherwise-choice piece of engagingly woozy bounce that the rapper ruins by yammering about how he fucks women with his sunglasses on. Things sharpen up a bit when you get closer to standard house turf-- though you have to wade through a few throwbacks to get there. Some are cringeworthy: the synth-drums from Tears for Fears' "Mad World", a Stepford version of Teena Marie, and a vocoder? Try harder, Treasure Fingers featuring Haley Small. And some are crowd-pleasing: Tensnake's always good for some earnestly joyous beardo disco, and even though his remix of Vega's "No Reasons" feels like preservationist house à la 1995, that piano riff is a hell of a reason to consider that a good year to visit. A few tracks are a bit more forward-looking-- Flosstradamus' "Cape Town Get Down" and Riton's remix of Congorock's "Babylon" incorporate shreds of contemporary South African house and electro into their structures-- but you'll probably be more satisfied if you come in expecting slightly postmodern tweaks on familiar vintage sounds from Detroit (Jokers of the Scene's "Power Slave") or Chicago (LA Riots' "Control Your Tuba")....full text |
| Itunes |
| Great track - my favourite one on this compilation! Really nice electronic songs and artists I haven't heard of before. I suppose that you also like the album Sweet & Sour by Liedschatten with great electronic tracks also. You should listen to both....this one here and the othere one too!...full text |
| Colette |
| First compilation out of the A-Track label Fool's Gold : The 14 new tracks on Fool’s Gold Vol 1 are a 3-D look at where FG has been and where we’re going next. “Ray Ban Vision,” A-Trak’s robot-rocking collab with G.O.O.D. Music upstart CyHi Da Prynce, sits comfortably next to Treasure Fingers’ joyous dance pop throwback “Keep Up” and The Suzan’s rollicking cover of Miike Snow’s “Animal,” along with new tracks from other exciting, constantly-evolving talents like Kingdom, Flosstradamus, and even Lil B, who teases his forthcoming EP with the #based bass of “Freeze.” Tracklist : 1. Treasure Fingers f. Haley Small – Keep Up 2. Vega – No Reasons (Tensnake Remix) 3. Sammy Bananas – Move Your Body 4. Trackademicks – The Best Stroke 5. A-Trak f. CyHi Da Prynce – Ray Ban Vision 6. Kid Sister – Don’t Stop Movin 7. Lil B – Freeze 8. The Suzan – Animal 9. Flosstradamus – Cape Town Get Down 10. LA Riots – Control Your Tuba 11. Congorock – Babylon (Riton Remix) 12. Kingdom f. Tiombe Lockhart – Remember 13. Jokers Of The Scene f. vitaminsforyou – Power Slave 14. Nacho Lovers – Zero Time...full text |
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