Alter Ego - RFI, C/D, S/D etc.

-- Jacob (jwrigh...), January 27th, 2005.

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Their first too albums are both good, I was just listening to them for the first time in ages. It's kinda funny that people these days know them only for "Rocker"... When I first heard "Rocker" I thought it must be by some other act called Alter Ego, because I hadn't heard anything of them since the mid-nineties. The self-titled debut is your basic trance/ambient house, it's a nice listen, but doesn't too much differ from other similar albums of the time. The second one is more interesting though, despite the silly title ("Decoding the Hacker Myth") it's not pretentious at all, it's a lovely-sounding mixture of soft, trancey synths, and elastic electro breaks. I don't think I've heard anything quite like it, I guess you could put it under the IDM label, but it's much smoother and less consciusly wanky than any British IDM/electro stuff I've heard.

um, is this as awesome as it sounds??

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=4850

that sounds totally amazing. neither of my locals have stocked the album or the single (w/ joakim remix) yet tho.

i really like the house-y tracks on this like "chicken shag". parts of it remind me of the last mr. oizo album when it quit with all the brisk editing and fell into a groove. the tracks like "why not?" and "gary" i'm not so into. "thirld world food on the upper east side" is cool.