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2 BIT PIE - 2 PIE ISLAND (ONE LITTLE INDIAN)
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It's kind of like.... if The Crystal Method went on a date with Underworld, they got into a fight, Underworld tried to reason with them, and finally Oakenfold broke it up. Then they all sat down and drank some fuzzy samples. Or maybe it sounds just like the next Fluke record, which considering this album was written and produced by Fluke’s Mike Bryant and Jon Fugler together with Andy Gray (Korn, Oakenfold), is no fluke. Fluke, as talented as they were, kind of flopped (or maybe just floated away) and now they're calling themselves 2 Bit Pie. Whatever parallel or silly paradigm you draw to try to describe how this album sounds or explaining their name, you have to say at some point that it sounds good. Good big 4/4 beats, good breakdowns, good solid dancefloor and electronic-music friendly film and commercial ready music, especially the opening "Fly" and I can almost see the iPod runner in "Here I Come" (which really is channeling Underworld). But you know how it is sometimes with really amazing music - it sounds like you've heard it before, but you haven't. Familiar, catchy, but different enough to be unique. I have a feeling the plethora of contributing talent lends to that uniqueness like vocalists Yuki (Japan’s She Shell front-girl) on "Fly," and the Royal Opera’s Dilshani Weerasinghe with the operatic and incredible "Soto Mundo." There are a few stumbles, like the robotic vocal layering with diva stylings in "Nobody Never" flashing me back to some late 80s workout video, and I'm not a fan of the rock-esque "Pil" style. But the slower-aced wanderings of "Little Things" started to bring me back and then got a little dense, but once "Mote" pulled in with its Yaz like loop, 2 Pie Island was back on track. The album finishes on two high notes, the smooth and mellower "Slipaway" and then punches out with the pumping "Afterhours." Don't listen to the naysayers.... electronic music is far from dead, its alive and breathing and running around with 2 Bit Pie!! Come on and listen! -- review by Jennifer Warner
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