Sunday, February 27, 2005

Voiceprint group of companies Midem 2001 Sampler

Another of those very cheap samplers (the Voiceprint group of companies being a collective of related record labels, according to their website), I picked this one up mainly because of its opener and closer - Aphex Twin's mighty "Come To Daddy" and an Eno/Jah Wobble collaboration from their album Spinners (I heard a song from that record on the radio a couple of years ago, and thought it was good at the time, but never followed it up) respectively. The Eno/Jah Wobble cut - "Steam" - is indeed good, but unfortunately the version of "Come To Daddy" turned out to be a remix...

Most of the rest of the music on the cd's pretty mediocre - much of it is haunted by the spectre of prog (a species of music for which I've never had much time, my Pink Floyd period notwithstanding), and there's also some generic electro, a bit of jaunty pop, and assorted other oddities including, inter alia, bad white-boy (I think) soul, Ziggy-esque glam rock, and (ahem) Leo Sayer (a live version of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing", no less). Odd.