Hed Kandi - Nu Disco The Future Sound of Disco (Album Review)
review by: Sav D’Souza
With 27 tracks on the latest offering from Hed Kandi you’d expect a few party pleasers and the album does deliver a nice bag of funky tunes with inevitably a few old fashion ‘fillers’ that fail to inspire.
Billed as the future sound of disco the album deviates into genre meshing from old school house to garage inspired beats and throws in a little disco crossover, electronic and Balearic for good measure and tops up with plenty of synth and spacey heavy mixes.
Among the highlights is a nice reworking of the hit 80s Junior track ‘Mama Used to Say’ which is given the remix treatment by Jupiter which works really well.
Treasure Fingers remix of Walking on a Dream By Empire of the Sun also hits the spot as does Tom Neville’s cutting up of the Editors Papillion - giving the inde boys track some fine disco treatment.
Best three tracks on the compilation for my money are The Temper Traps - Sweet Disposition (Alan Wilkis Remix), Passion Pit - Secrets (Felix Da Housecat Remix) and Ethan - In My Heart (DLG Vocal Remix).
Once again and it is getting a bit tiresome to bang on about it but why or why do producers feel the need to smash out double cds which invariably have a number of tracks that just don’t cut it. There are about a dozen tracks worth really listening to on the double album, a handful are OK and the rest is fast forward stuff. Note to producers better to make an album that is the complete package than the good, the bad and the ugly. |