We wind down, slip off our shoes, and loosen our ties with Howard Roberts’ “Girl Talk,” and Julie London gets us ready for bed with her very sexy “Go Slow.”
For a pasty-skinned boy like me, this cosmic go-getter sound is the closest I can get to hitting the waves at Laguna Beach, and I’m getting retarded over it.
Zumpano make no bones about what they’re doing, as they sound straight out of the time that brought us sing-along tunes by the Beatles and the Dave Clark 5.
Natural Born Techno 3 is an example of what non-punter think of when s/he hears the word “techno,” i.e. press a button and let the machine do its thang.
Distorted kick-drums, hyper-charged breakbeats, aggressive samples and mega-fast tempos, it’s comparable to speed metal in its intensity, rage, and aggression.