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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Original Soundtrack/Niki Mono |
| Record Label: |
Crammed Discs |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
April 11, 1995 |
| Album Duration: |
47m:55s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Still I'm Sad
2. Flaming
3. No Man's Land
4. Marathon
5. Late Night
6. Venus in Furs
7. Dancing Barefoot
8. Coming Back to Me
9. Ocean
10. Late Night (previously unreleased, bonus track) |
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Engineers include: Frankie Lievaart, Uri Barak, Andy Robbins. Recording information: Daylight Recording Studio, Burxelles, Belgium; Gorgone Studio, Lille, France; Soundworks, Brussels, Belgium. A rather strange idea, this original soundtrack has members of Minimal Compact and Tuxedomoon and vocalist Niki Mono diving into material by various disparate 1960s rock icons, with three tracks by Syd Barrett or Pink Floyd, a pair of Velvet Underground tunes, and a song each by the Yardbirds and Jefferson Airplane, as well as a Patti Smith piece and an original to round off the LP. The psychedelic '60s music gets transformed into chamber rock pieces, with somewhat subdued but lush piano and violins, stiff, clunky rhythms, and oozing with the peculiar Euro-decadence tendencies that both Minimal Compact and Tuxedomoon gravitate toward. Since the Velvet Underground pieces were already quite saturated in decadence, the transformation is not quite as radical as the slow and ponderous rendition of Jefferson Airplane's ... |
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