Milky Disco, Vol. 2: Let's Go Freak Out! (2009)

The title bears the unmistakable whiff of a European project; it's got that "not quite fluent in English" awkwardness to it, like an Aqua lyric. But Lo Recordings (with its sister labels Loaf and Loeb) is actually based in London, and most of the artists featured on its second two-disc compilation are from England and the U.S. The music is pretty much without any specific regional inflection, and is surprisingly consistent in tone and approach. You can call it "nu disco" or "cosmic disco" or "ambient German Italian Detroit ... Read More

The title bears the unmistakable whiff of a European project; it's got that "not quite fluent in English" awkwardness to it, like an Aqua lyric. But Lo Recordings (with its sister labels Loaf and Loeb) is actually based in London, and most of the artists featured on its second two-disc compilation are from England and the U.S. The music is pretty much without any specific regional inflection, and is surprisingly consistent in tone and approach. You can call it "nu disco" or "cosmic disco" or "ambient German Italian Detroit avant-soul disco," but what it all adds up to is relentlessly pleasant and mostly quite gentle dance music, much of it instrumental, all of it fun, and some of it interesting. There are moments when you start questioning yourself -- are you actually enjoying what amounts to elevator music? Hatchback's "Midnight Jogger" and Gatto Fritto's "Hungry Ghosts," for example, both tread a very fine line between chilled-out funk and Muzak. But there are also moments of deceptive simplicity that hide a more complex substructure, such as the Steve Reich-derived fade-ins on Chilled by Nature's minimalist "Otherness," and moments when you get the feeling that the guys from Front 242 may be surreptitiously remixing, such as the borderline industrial Eric Broucek mix of "Don't Just Stand There" by Soft Circle. And all of that is just on disc one. On the second disc you'll find some charmingly cheesy vocoder, some dubbed-up vocals, and several more tracks that are so soft and pretty that they border on ambient. Listen carefully and you'll actually hear the Swingle Singers. And how many times can you both hear the Swingle Singers and be reminded of Front 242 by listening to the same album? ~ Rick Anderson, Rovi Read Less

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2009, Lo Recordings UPC: 730003417528 CD See All