This is a compilation of Daft Punk’s work plus a few remixes, so in a way I’m reviewing all of their work (though some of their best stuff is left out). Interestingly, Daft Punk fell way below Justice in the Top 100 DJs list, even though Justice imitate them.

Unfortunately, the tracks not a continuous in the mix CD since it’s a compilation, so the jumble of tracks leave it far from Daft Punk’s Alive 2007 album which is brilliant. Also, many of the tracks aren’t Daft Punk’s best, ‘Musique’ and ‘Something About Us’ for instance include a lame robot voice and are uninteresting. ‘Robot Rock’ has potential to be brilliant but in 4 and a half minutes Daft Punk hardly change a thing. ‘Da Funk’ is great, along with ‘Around the World’ and ‘One More Time’. The remixes suck. Buy Alive 2007 if you like Daft Punk, even if it costs much more.

Bought this on the recommendation of those on Amazon, who you can usually trust. It’s a chillout CD from French band Air.

It’s quite a decent CD. ‘La Femme d’Argent’ is a very nice sounding chill song, but it runs into ‘Sexy Boy’, which isn’t. The robotic voice is annoying, and the CD feels annoyingly long even though it’s one of the shortest I have, because all the songs are the same.

Let’s leave it to Gustav on Amazon to explain the rest:

Moon Safari gets a bit of praise and claim to be the best Air album. I honestly cannot tell why. There is only two or three songs on here worth listening to and one is basically a continuation of the other.

“La femme d’argent” - a fantastic track. Its the only song on this cd worth listening to.
“Sexy Boy” - a terrible, horrible, disgusting track. Every time it starts I hit the Next button. I can’t stand this song.

“All I Need” - bores me to tears.
“Kelly Watch The Stars” - tries to be a good song but doesn’t quite make it.
“Talisman” - This one is more a “La femme d’argent” part 2 so its good as well.
“Remember” - This one tries to be good too. Its slightly better than “Kelly Watch The Stars”
“You Make It Easy” - another continuation. This time it’s “All I Need” part 2. Still bores me to tears.
“Ce matin-là” - On the level of “Kelly Watch The Stars.”
“New Star In The Sky” - listen to this on as well. Its very good.
“Le voyage de Penelope” - On the level of “Remember”

Interesting CD that I was inclined to buy in HMV the other day. They charge very high prices, and this just happened to be £4 (and was rated rather well I remember) along with Leftfield - Leftism (WTH? That’s the best one there!)

Unfortunately some parts of the album are pretty poor. I can see where it’s going, it’s a bit like Massive Attack, and it seems more spiritual and indulging. There are one or two brilliant tracks, however, that make up for the lacking, such as God is a DJ which feels… different than other music.

This is the most recent of the Brother’s albums, I felt I had to write about them again as Ed Simons dumped girlfriend Lily Allen (celebrity relationships never last anyway). Back to the point, this album is definitely the worst they’ve ever produced. Asides from ‘Burst Generator’, ‘Das Spiegel’ and ‘Saturate’ the track listing isn’t anything special.

But hell, ‘Burst Generator’ makes up for it. Possibly the best song they’ve ever created, it’s a futuristic space-ish song using the best guitar sound ever for the choruses. The rest of the time is a huge tension buildup to the awesome-sounding choruses. Better download this song than buy the whole album…

In summary, this album is a big disappointment since the Brothers usually bring out brilliant albums. I hate to criticise them, being one of my favourite artists, but for this album just pick off the best tracks and ‘The Salmon Dance’ if you think some guy singing about a salmon and swearing is funny.

Fatboy’s Greatest Hits Album. I somehow got hold of this on amazon.co.uk for £1.90 (the DVD version to boot). It has a nice optimistic feeling to it most of the way, especially with classics such as ‘The Rockafeller Skank’, ‘Praise You’, and ‘I See You Baby’ which I expect most of us have heard of.

The album is optimistic and more of a big-beater, Fatboy knows how to stir up the crowd. He used to do gigs on Brighton beach, police had to get involved of course. If you want a party get this album.

However, there isn’t anything massively brilliant about many of the songs here apart from one or two mentioned and with 18 tracks, rather than having long tracks typical of dance, which I like, it feels like a lot of the tracks here are just fillers. Nonetheless a good album, definitely worth £1.90.