my good friend jan henrik gave me the heads up on this one some years ago and it's one of those tunes that you either like/hate on the instant. it's a catchy tune that's not quite neo-electro and not quite italo but it's all robots and robots are awesome, well not when they take over the world and kill all mankind but that's just inevitable.
the track has a buzzing bassline that has almost the chord progression as new order's "blue monday" or some other track i can't seem to name at the moment. it has lidbo doing vocals in as mentioned before vocoder/talkbox but it's in swedish. i think this is what made me love this but i think it would be charming to a non-swedish speaking person as well.
if you want to know what the lyrics are about then it's about how "cool guys" are, they are not that insipid but they are inane enough. fact is that lidbo could have done the track in english and i'd be a fan, it's such a strong piece of pop music.
the rest of the ep contains of a cracking ghetto-tek meets electro type tune ("sex slave"), more robotic neo-electro fun ("i don't love you") and a house track with robotic elements and retro bass ("dj superstars"). i'm not a fan of the latter but i do think it's a well produced track. in fact the whole ep is brilliant. well recommended stuff here.
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