Vibert

It must be one of the most unlikely collaborations in electronic music, but producer Luke Vibert's collaboration with pedal steel master B.J. Cole actually turns out alright, though the fusion is not quite as surprising as it originally sounded. On most tracks, Cole's shimmering, fluid guitar lines are simply assimilated into Vibert's kitchen-sink production style, and the results don't sound vastly different than Vibert's last full-length, Tally Ho! (recorded under his Wagon Christ pseudonym). It's good to see an excellent producer pushing himself - and all of electronic music - into new territory; Stop the Panic just doesn't sound quite like the revolution it should be.

Despite the fact that Wagon Christ-related releases started to pile up for various labels, Luke Vibert wasn't in danger of repeating himself - his productions on Sorry I Make You Lush differ stylistically and thematically from any material he's issued under any other alias, while still being less a genre holiday than his previous YosepH for Warp. Still pushing his beats and basslines farther into funk and soul territory even while he pulls his effects from the realm of experimental electronics, Vibert may play the dance technician while producing his tracks, but he's become much more a natural trackmaster than in the past. "I'm Singing" may be his first vocal feature of all time, but regardless, it is a vocal track, and one that shows him integrating sung vocals into his hipster funk very well (a later track finds him sampling a female folksinger à la Jacqui McShee to good effect)…

VA - The Cocktail Shaker. New Groovy Kitsch & Space-Age Pop (1997)
Lounge/Lo-Fi/Nu Jazz | MP3 | CBR 256 kbps | 01:13:46 | 134 MB

New groovy kitsch & space age pop? Well, to be honest, this description ain't right. Call it a great collection of easy-tune and your set. This excellent album features many original tracks that you won't find anywhere else. One of the most hilarious tracks on this (and maybe any other) cd is Piero Umliani - Mah Na Mah Na (Tiki Mix). Yeah right, it's a bossa tiki extended remix whatever thing of the famous Muppet song 'Mah Na Mah Na' (!). Other tracks contain originala from Dimitri from Paris, The Montefiori Cocktail (Quando Quando Quando), Luke Vibert and the top track Vertical Expression Of A Horizontal Desire by DJ Soup. Highly recommended party cd!

Reviving his Wagon Christ moniker after a six year hiatus, 'Toomorrow' is the sixth studio album from the multi-talented talent Luke Vibert. Piecing together sound collages of psychedelic pop, quirky samples, library music and shades of acid house and grooves, this is an arresting and eccentric return to form from Mr. Vibert.

Robert Jan Meyer also started his own compilation series: "Science Fiction Jazz 1-12 (Vol. 1 at the same time, was the beginning of the "Mole Listening Pearls"- Label) and "Batucada 1-3". He compiled the double CD "Blue Note Weekend" for the renowned jazz label "Blue Note" and two more samplers on the Japanese market.