Lollipop Magazine

Best of Moog – Review

January 1, 2000

Bet you’ve never heard T. Rex’s “Jeepster” like this before. No kidding, really… These tracks are so square, you’ll cut yourself on the corners.

Art of Noise – The Seduction of Claude Debussy – Review

January 1, 2000

Art of Noise decided to plunder the past and bring it into the future, grafting drum’n’bass and other techno marvels onto Debussy samples.

Aphrodite – Review

January 1, 2000

I kinda like the freaky-creepy doom bass & frantic, schizophrenic beats, but after a while, the whole “I’m more serious than you” thing gets tiresome.

Plaid – Rest Proof Clockwork – Review

January 1, 2000

Elements of electro & Moog thrown into a blend of James Brown & Funkadelic, sorta like Devo, Kraftwerk & Can get together & go off on an old-school soul-bender.

Bill Rieflin – Birth of a Giant – Review

January 1, 2000

Not what you’d expect from Bill Rieflin, Ministry’s drummer from ’86 to ’94. Birth of a Giant is skewed art-rock semi-atonal musings much in the Crimson style.

Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile – Review

January 1, 2000

Trent’s back to find his guitar sounds co-opted, his beats carjacked, and his lyrics… well, he got to keep something. Only thing is, they got it all wrong.

The Chemical Brothers – Surrender – Review

January 1, 2000

They claim to’ve “transcended” Big Beat, the style they helped invent: Layered funk and rock beats, tweaked noise howls, and an overwhelming bass sound.

Swans – Public Castration is a Good Idea – Review

January 1, 2000

A collection of recordings from a European tour in ’86, when the music was still more brutal than beautiful.

Slick Sixty – Nibs and Nabs – Review

January 1, 2000

Hooray for Slick Sixty, who’ve made the album the Chemical Brothers and Death in Vegas wished they could have made.

Holger Czukay – Good Morning Story – Review

January 1, 2000

Ever since Can, where his bass was sparse and jaunty and his sound collages pissed off almost everyone, Czukay has injected what he does with a childlike mirth.