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Diskoteka Avariya - Modniy Tanyets Aram Zam Zam

This is the most wonderful, annoying, infectious song, and I want to inflict it on you lovely people. :)

Album Reviews 4/15/15

Cold War Kids- Hold My Home: I don't know that I'm too familiar with these guys. Either I heard one of these songs on the radio or someone asked me to look at this one. But they turn out to be a decent alt-rock group. This is a perfectly enjoyable rock album, good melodies and all, but I'm not going to remember a note of it in the next five minutes. 4.5/10

The World/Inferno Friendship Society- Just the Best Party: Here's one I listened to earlier! Yes, I'm finally getting into hunting down albums I listened to long ago and wanted to reconfirm my opinion on! This group is a super-energetic swing/cabaret rock outfit. (I dunno, gypsypunk? Wikipedia calls them "circus punk" and that's about the best genre label I've ever heard.) I don't think I've heard anything like this before or since. "Heart Attack '64" is a long-time favorite of mine, despite being one of the slower tracks. If you like music, go look up this band. The only thing I can say against this album is that the songs are just so blasted short! 8.5/10

Diskoteka Avariya Marafon: Oh dear god. So, Diskoteka Avariya (or just "Avariya") are a Russian techno group that I discovered probably back in 2000. They rocked pretty hard, and after scouring their website, I came away with a handful of songs, some of which are still in my collection today. Now, I am going back through their whole discography, which has only grown in the intervening decade-plus. One of their members died, but they're still active, so let's see what Discotech Failure can do for us! Their first album gets off to a great start with "Novogodyaya", introducing their particular style of classic club with hip-hop vocals. It's got a great party atmosphere, which is what attracted me to them in the first place. And while other songs like "Pyesnya Snyegoruchki" really bring me back, it's very obvious that the production values are better than a decade old, behind the times even for the early 2000s. (Though "Nye Plach" and "Pochyemu Lyabov Ukhodit" are the two tracks I still have!) Not all tracks are made equal, of course, but if you've got an appreciate for older dance tunes, this is a fun way to find out what Avariya are all about. Forward! 7/10 Avariya Protiv!: Marafon was followed up by Pyesnya Pro Tebya i Menya, which features a number of the same tracks, and a number more that aren't worth mention (aside from "Malinki"), so we'll move ahead to the big Y2K release, which starts the trend of having a lot of guest musicians. Also, like Pyesnya, this has a lot of what made certain songs on Marafon irritating, without any of the good stuff to balance them out. "Chao Bambina" isn't too bad, along the same lines as "Malinki". There are a lot of remixes of tracks off the first two albums. Overall, it just feels joyless, like they were really trying hard instead of just having fun. 4.5/10 Manyaki: After their (premature, if you ask me) best-of-and-then-some, All Hits: Avariya Against!, we get into what I think is the first album I didn't hear oh-so-long ago. The production values seem to have climbed a bit, which is good, and they seem to be branching out. "Ne Ostriye Ataki" has a funky edge to it, as does "Pyesnya pro Yajtsa", and "Na Zarye" features an orchestra. Oddly, it ends with another round of "Novogodyaya". This is definitely a step up from Protiv, but only just. 5.5/10 Chetvero Parnej: Moving forward five whole years for their next release. There's definitely more of a dance vein to the music here, edging into pure pop with "Serenada". "Malinki" returns, new and improved. "CHP" is the first song in a while that really made me stand up and take notice, with its boisterous lyrics and cool hard rock guitar riffs. I love the traditional Slavic overtones of "Stradaniya". Not everything works equally well ("Mani" is also hard rock, but more of an NWOBHM-ish screamfest), but things are continuing to improve. 6.5/10 Nedetsokye Vremya: Another five-year jump! This opens with a full-on modern techno sound, and then moves into a song that should by all rights be horrendously irritating but manages to be catchy instead. It's kind of sad that sounding more or less like everyone else has made me like their album more, but they're really good at doing it, and this is just far and away better than anything they've done since Marafon, which I liked back in the day. I do believe we have a winner! 7.5/10 Devushka za Rulyom: Their latest album came out last year, following the departure of founding member Nikolaj Timofeyev. And precisely what I was hoping wouldn't happen did: this is just your average dancepop album, in Russian. There are a few good tracks, like "Kacheli", but the heart of the band seems to have left with their founder. And there, but for the grace of God, go Avariya. 6.5/10

Bamboo Forest- The Seven Chakras: Bamboo Forest is a psytrance artist I ran into somehow, I don't remember, before I even knew what psytrance was. This is a later release than the one I heard, coming from 2009. The first track is a little annoying, mostly due to the vocal sample, but the music is overall fun and soothing. I love how very subtle the sampling is in "Vishuddha". The thing about psytrance is, there isn't much in the way of degrees of quality: it's either good or it isn't. Of course, you never expect a song with a title like "Svadisthana" to feature the lyrics "Everybody in the club". But this is good, overall. 7.5/10

Freur- Doot Doot: I don't know how I first discovered Freur, a bizarre 80's New Wave act of little to no import, but I just found out they went on to become Underworld, and that is blowing my fucking mind more than the nonsensical symbol they used to use for a name (which can best be represented in ASCII as @^^^^~,). The title track of this album is their "big hit", and it'll tell you pretty much everything you need to know about these guys. (I've also always liked "The Devil and Darkness", which comes off their second album.) But yeah, for New Wave, this is disappointingly minimalist, not to mention just utterly bizarre. These guys are nothing more than an oddity; marvel that they were able to make songs like "Two Months Off" later. 4/10

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