{"id":89979,"date":"2012-06-03T06:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89979\/death-vegas\/"},"modified":"2012-06-03T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T10:42:15","slug":"death-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89979\/death-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH IN VEGAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Imagine a cross between Bauhaus and Japan.\u00a0 That&#8217;s exactly what Dalis Car&#8217;s album (The Waking Hour) sounds like.\u00a0 After Japan split, Mick Karn (bassist, keyboardist, guitarist and saxophonist) teamed up with Peter Murphy (the Bauhaus vocalist).\u00a0 Add some Art Of Noise rhythms, and that&#8217;s basically the sound of Dalis Car.\u00a0 As you would expect, The Waking Hour is very dark and mournful.\u00a0 There were no further Dalis Car albums, although there was a work in progress at the time of Mick Karn&#8217;s death last year.\u00a0 The completed material was released as an EP.\u00a0 Peter Murphy&#8217;s solo career has continued for over a quarter of a century.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Daft Punk showed great promise, on the debut album (Homework).\u00a0 Having made several remixes, the French duo created an album which expertly blended various genres (house, hip-hop, big-beat, funk, disco, etc).\u00a0 Daft Punk became an international dance sensation.\u00a0 The follow-up album took four years to materialise.\u00a0 Discovery retained the disco and funk elements, combining these with pop.\u00a0 It is light and euphoric.\u00a0 It was also hugely successful &#8211; even though some of the original fans didn&#8217;t like it.\u00a0 Listening to it now (a decade later) I find the vocoders very irritating.\u00a0 Vocoders were used on ALL of the vocals.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit much.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daft Punk - Da Funk\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XsmehRVyBnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Human After All is an utterly dreadful album, completely devoid of merit.\u00a0 Following that atrocity, Musique Vol. 1 was released.\u00a0 The title implies there will be more Daft Punk albums.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably just wishful thinking, on the part of the band.\u00a0 There have been no Daft Punk albums for over seven years (although a live compilation was released in 2007).\u00a0 The duo spent two years composing the soundtrack for Tron: Legacy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dZ6Y_jErC9c&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Death In Vegas released Dead Elvis in 1997 (Dead Elvis was the first choice for the name of the band, but legalities prevented it).\u00a0 Dead Elvis is essentially a dance album.\u00a0 It was moderately successful.\u00a0 The Contino Sessions was a step forward (following the departure of Steve Hellier and the addition of Tim Holmes).\u00a0 Inspired by Screamadelica, the intention was to create a dance-rock hybrid with a psychedelic feel (it even includes Primal Scream samples and a vocal performance from Bobby Gillespie).\u00a0 It is the best Death In Vegas album.\u00a0 Scorpio Rising (the third offering) is also good.\u00a0 It has a similar sound, but it is more like The Chemical Brothers in psychedelic mode.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EzRatoOAxiM&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">During the recording of Scorpio Rising, Death In Vegas became involved with a bad crowd: Oasis.\u00a0 I do quite like the title track (sung by Liam Gallagher).\u00a0 However, when Death In Vegas tried producing the next Oasis album, it didn&#8217;t work out.\u00a0 Apparently suffering from a loss of confidence, the duo produced the fourth Death In Vegas album.\u00a0 Satan&#8217;s Circus is pretty dire, for the most part.\u00a0 It sounds like a collection of offcuts and half-baked ideas.\u00a0 Milk It (the singles collection) was released the following year.\u00a0 The limited edition includes a bonus CD, full of remixes (by Dave Clarke and Two Lone Swordsmen, among others).\u00a0 After a long hiatus, the fifth Death In Vegas album (Trans-love Energies) was released.\u00a0 It is not a bad comeback, but the first three albums are better.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Death In Vegas - Rocco (Dub)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFAARevayFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">I like what I&#8217;ve heard of Deftones, but I only have the compilation B-sides &amp; Rarities.\u00a0 It includes cover versions of songs by Cocteau Twins, The Cure, The Smiths and Duran Duran.\u00a0 Deftones released six albums between 1995 and 2010.\u00a0 I have only heard a couple of them, so I cannot really write much more about this alternative rock band.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s worth investigating Deftones properly though.\u00a0 The last album (Diamond Eyes) was critically acclaimed and debuted at number six in the US Billboard chart.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Delphic&#8217;s debut album (Acolyte) was released in 2010.\u00a0 There is a strong (peak-period) New Order influence in this Mancunian trio&#8217;s music.\u00a0 It is joyous dance-pop.\u00a0 Doubt, the most popular single, is the best evidence.\u00a0 The whole album is good though.\u00a0 The songs are bright, melodic and mostly fast-paced.\u00a0 Other highlights include Counterpoint, Submission and the epic title track.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope Delphic keeps the momentum going on the next album.\u00a0 This is a band with great potential.\u00a0 If you like this sort of music, you may also enjoy Grand National and Semifinalists (although their takes on dance-pop are generally more melancholic).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delphic - Doubt\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vl2tZV6XV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"4\">Further listening<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stardust Music Sounds Better With You (High Quality)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FgAJWQCC7L0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CyLBi9CupEw<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7GoiIESRcgk<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Next: The Cure<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a cross between Bauhaus and Japan.\u00a0 That&#8217;s exactly what Dalis Car&#8217;s album (The Waking Hour) sounds like.\u00a0 After Japan split, Mick Karn (bassist, keyboardist, guitarist and saxophonist) teamed up with Peter Murphy (the Bauhaus vocalist).\u00a0 Add some Art Of Noise rhythms, and that&#8217;s basically the sound of Dalis Car.\u00a0 As you would expect, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5277,5279,5280,5278,108],"class_list":["post-89979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-daft-punk","tag-death-in-vegas","tag-deftones","tag-delphic","tag-music-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}