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| Board at end of game |
Round One:
K(35pts), G(33pts), W(32pts), M(24pts) & Si(21pts)
Round Two:
G(68pts), Si(60pts), K(59pts), W(56pts) & M(55pts)
Round Three:
G(89pts), Si(83pts), M(81pts), W(79pts) & K(76pts)
Final Tally:
G was declared victor for this week.
Notes:
- W presented tonight's music
- Later start than normal thanks to fun fair lag
- Game cube is recommended for future sessions of EG
Music Features
Moby: Play (1999)
[Notes from AllMusic.com] ... another leap back toward the electronica base that had passed him by during the mid-'90s. The first two tracks, "Honey" and "Find My Baby," weave short blues or gospel vocal samples around rather disinterested breakbeat techno. ... Surprisingly, many of Moby's vocal tracks are highlights; he has an unerring sense of how to frame his fragile vocals with sympathetic productions... Moby shows himself back in the groove after a long hiatus, balancing his sublime early sound with the breakbeat techno evolution of the '90s.
<<rinôçérôse>>: Music Kills Me (2002)
[Notes from SlantMagazine.com] Somewhere near the southern French metropolitan home of Daft Punk, Air, and Mirwais, a little band of academic psychologists-cum-rockers dreamt of becoming guitar gods. The band, Rinocerose, released their deep-house-meets-rock-riffs debut in 1999 and rode a wave of French techno buzz to critical acclaim. Rinocerose's Jean-Philippe likens his band's second full-length effort, Music Kills Me, to Andy Warhol's "Catastrophes"; it's a neo-disco concept album that might have sounded a bit more relevant in the decadent days of Studio 54. Yes, Music Kills Me is about "death"—or at least that's what the album's song titles will have you believe. But for all its references to suicide, funerals and paths to heaven, Music Kills Me is a rather upbeat record. The first single, "Le Summer Rock" ("Rock Is Dying"), is a synth-laden disco-funk workout with a bright, albeit lyricless, hook. The title track fuses a "Hungry Like the Wolf" guitar riff with AC/DC-inspired power chords while the sleazy house track "Dead Flowers" pays multi-layered homage to the Stones. Live flutes float above the bubbly house excursions "It's Time to Go Now!" and "Resurrection D'Une Idole Pop," which features sampled vocals by the late Steve Marriot of the Small Faces fame. The songs are scrumptious morsels but the album as a whole is quite redundant, stuffed with P-Funk-lite dressed up in showy French techno.
St-Germain: Tourist (2000)
[Notes from AllMusic.com] Since the advent of acid jazz in the mid-'80s, the many electronic-jazz hybrids to come down the pipe have steadily grown more mature, closer to a balanced fusion that borrows the spontaneity and emphasis on group interaction of classic jazz while still emphasizing the groove and elastic sound of electronic music. For his second album, French producer Ludovic Navarre expanded the possibilities of his template for jazzy house by recruiting a sextet of musicians to solo over his earthy productions. The opener "Rose Rouge" is an immediate highlight, as an understated Marlena Shaw vocal sample ("I want you to get together/put your hands together one time"), trance-state piano lines, and a ride-on-the-rhythm drum program frames solos by trumpeter Pascal Ohse and baritone Claudio de Qeiroz. For "Montego Bay Spleen," Navarre pairs an angular guitar solo by Ernest Ranglin with a deep-groove dub track, complete with phased effects and echoey percussion. "Land Of..." moves from a Hammond- and horn-led soul-jazz stomp into Caribbean territory, marked by more hints of dub and the expressive Latin percussion of Carneiro. ... if another step on the way to a perfect blend of jazz and electronic, then Tourist is an excellent one.
Kruder & Dorfmeister: DJ Kicks (1996)
[Wikipedia]
DJ-Kicks started out in 1995 as a compilation of electronic DJ club-style mixes in the techno or house genres, with the then-novel twist of being targeted to a home listening audience... As of September 2014[update], there are 49 releases in the series, with a release rate of roughly two to three new ones each year. Some of the DJ-Kicks mixes are very popular and counted among the regular albums of the compiler, most notably the one by Kruder & Dorfmeister. The DJ-Kicks series has been called "the most important DJ-mix series ever" by Mixmag. [Notes from AllMusic.com] Beginning with downbeat trip-hop including Herbaliser, Statik Sound System, and Thievery Corporation, Kruder & Dorfmeister flow through jazzy drum'n'bass (with Aquasky and JMJ & Flytronix) and techno (with Hardfloor and Showroom Recordings).
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