Music For An Accelerated Culture
Audio CD
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£4.93
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I'm not usually a fan of music like this, but when I first heard Get Smashed Gate Crash, I couldn't help but jump around like a silly teenager. I love their energy and it just makes me feel really happy! Gotta be one of the coolest band names too.
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I would classify Hadouken as electro-grime. I saw them at Sound City in Liverpool last year and thought they were interesting. Their album is pretty much as expected. It's just OK.
They sound unique, which is great, but the album itself does not sound unique; every track sounds the same as the others, and it is lyrically weak.
They have the right idea, but I'd like to see more diversity in the sounds they produce and slightly more imaginative and credible lyrics.
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its so-so. all the tracks sound pretty similar though. But I'm not a major Hadouken fan.
If you like tracks like That Boy That Girl, Liquid Lives and Leap Of Faith then this isn't really for you........
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Hadouken! took a while to release this, their debut album, building up rather a lot of hype and something of an avid following on the back of a few rather excellent demos and singles. Based on this, there was a lot of expectation riding on their first actual album, which in my opinion isn't really realised. Much of the album is really quite average and unexpectedly for such a hyped up band, quite boring. There is very little of the exciting, wall shaking, stimulant driven anarchy of songs like "the Bounce" and a lot more safe, mainstream dance destined for very average club nights and radio play. You can't argue with hits like "That Boy that Girl" and "Liquid Lives", and the mental police siren riffs of "Get Smashed Gate Crash" can hardly fail to get the party started, but far too much of the album seems like filler, with average beats, forgettable riffs and hurried sounding lyrics. Flashes of their occasional brilliance and some definate dancefloor hits, but a disappointing lack of the neighbour-disturbing mayhem that their previous material hinted at. Probably one for background music at a drunken party.
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Having heard the single Crank It Up, I was intrigued by this band who had good beats and filthy basslines, but was hoping for lyrics that were slightly less stereotypical about uploading your new mp3 onto myspace and gatecrashing house parties. Unfortunately, they seem to suffer from the Get Cape Wear Cape Fly issue of having lyrics that attempt to sound cutting edge and witty, but just end up sounding like the wit of a 16 year old. But aside from that, they have one formula which they stick to, and it works- the dance beats and programmed bassline have a mission-music quality to it. It's just unfortunate as songs such as Crank It Up, and Spend Your Life which mixes acoustic loops with Nintendo bitcrusher sounds, songs which first sound brilliant, can end up sounding so angry and teenage.
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