Cola Party

Houle, Marc
Items & Things
General | Oct 2014

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2014-10-15
Fine electronica, dance. Beats are funky and rhythmic, don’t fit into any generic repetitious “house” or “techno” class, but surely contain elements of such. Uses interesting sounds amongst the synth and drum programming, but its all about the nice rhythms, sexy. Percussion and bass interplay sounds very organic, like humans. I like this a lot cuz at times it reminds me of Kraftwerk, and the early synth based work of Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Danielle Dax, more than what you hear while shopping at Sharper Image or watching a Pepsi commercial. Great stuff.

1) (6:03) big beat techno flavor
2) 5:17) begins w/ sequenced bass and sampled vocal track then a minimal but pervasive heavy beat
3) (4:44) cool synth, treated echoey, veering into the dark early 80’s realm now
4) (4:29) cool dark vocals, dark feel retained
5) (5:11) I think this is “tech step”(?), but a more breakbeaty rhythm makes it super funky
6) (6:06) beat goes more straight techno
7) (5:17) “wearing Ray Bans in the rain” somehow reminds me of “Makin Sandwiches” song, deadpan lyric delivery and minimal electronica, rings of Kraftwerk too
8) (6:29) dark bass line w/ steppy rhythms, spooky, cool
9) (4:22) more techno flavored, echoey minimalism

Recent airplay

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Jackn Jill
NarniaNov 05, 2014
Gimme Gimme
Brownian MotionOct 29, 2014

Charting

2014-10-17 — 2014-12-19 Electronic
Week EndingAirplays
Dec 14 2
Dec 7 1
Nov 9 1
Nov 2 1
Oct 26 4

Track listing

1. Over The Top
2. I Don't Wanna Know About You
3. S.T.E.A.K.
4. Cola Party
5. Jackn Jill
6. Hot Sauce
7. Raybans In Bahrain
8. Gimme Gimme
9. Alpha Bit