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Song Title Artist Time Price Visit our audio page for more information Muzikizum delivers a small but perfectly formed 10 tracks, including three club smashes with a guaranteed fourth on the way. It's a coherent collection of thumping drums, cool collaborations and soul-stirring keyboard work. Opening with the heavenly house of the still essential, palindromic title imperiously on its way with a future `Danny Tenaglia' end of nighter called `Supasong' mood music in the true sense of the word, before the ubiquitous, David Byrne-sung `Lazy' yawns as wide as Rocky's waistband. `Lazy' is a classic radio-friendly, pop crossover record. As well as Byrne's art-funk yelps, X-Press 2 also employ the weathered croon of Yello's Dieter Meier, best known before now for the oft-sampled `Bostich' and for repeatedly going "Chicken Tikka!" on `The Race'. Equally impressive is presence vocalist Steve Edwards, whose Byron Stingily-style warble makes `Call That Love' an obvious future single, and an introduction to the sound of classic house for a generation weaned on progressive. Also board is the apocalyptic boom and clatter of `Smoke Machine', which concentrates a decade spent traipsing around sweatboxes with disco-dirty sneakers at five in the morning into a sonic mugging. If you can resist the bass surge that signals the end of track's intro, maybe dance music isn't for you after all... Expressive, explosive, and occasionally experimental (but not too much) `Muzikizum' is the kind of album house heads have been screaming out for. We all know from hearing the singles out that it works in the clubs, but this isn't just music that `sound great on a big system'. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)

Muzikizum Available from Amazon Price: $0.01 Updated on 9-7-2008.