FLOPPYDISCO
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How do you describe Bleepin' J Hawkins without sounding ridiculous? Well, it's not really possible, so let's just call it electro-pop and at least we're in the general vicinity of a decent description. To get even closer to the mark, you only need to consider the title of this disc: Floppydisco. We've all heard loads of sonic celebrations, passionately beseeching music-lovers to return to the 80s, but only recently have these efforts actually reached beyond the fad to produce good music. Floppydisco is definitely among the best of the genre. The power-cheesiness of these songs inspires a giggle but the sounds, arrangements and tunes are seriously fine. I can do without the vocoder and the more trite efforts, but the bed of bass that greeted me at the beginning of Alice Doesn't Know is totally blissful. It simply doesn't get any better than that in the deranged world of Electro. Alice is what the genre should be about: sexy, danceable and a little warped. Sounding like a genetic experiment involving Kraftwerk, Isaac Hayes and Air, Bleepin' J Hawkins treads the thin line between 'experimental' and 'approachable', serving up a cheese platter of lush, bubbly sounds and reviving the electro-pop sensibilities of a bygone era.
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