Various Artists “Electrostatik Volume 2″

This is a compilation of electronic music. Centipede is first. Their song “Save Your Cool Soul” is stripped down and fun, although the lead singer sounds as if she is trying to be Madonna, which will make a lot of people happy, but not me.

Baconflex have Erasure vocals and Book of Love synths on “Jupiter Boy.” If they had called it “Jupiter Boy Pop,” they would have had me hooked. It’s still a good song with a modern feel. Violedy have a more early ’90s feel with “Claymore.” It sounds like something Sweetheart would do, or U2, I guess.

Fewfuzz gives us “Speak Love Tonight,” and it sounds like something you would play at an East San Jose high school dance to keep people from fighting over colors. The chorus goes “We are here to have some fun” and repeats itself many times. The music reminds me a bit of Robert Miles.

“I Got You” by Perfect North reminds me of Daft Punk or Information Society. “Something Strong” by Common Party sounds like Bauhaus. I mean, it REALLY sounds like Bauhaus. “Immersive” by Arco has a Beatmania IIdx feel to it. The kids call it “trance.”

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