Some people are hard to please!!!
Eskimo is a CHAMPION! His music is phenomenal to dance to and even better to listen too in the comforts of your own home.
Some of you have complained it is full on. Kidding right? If you want to listen to boring sh!te then listen to that and stop giving critiques on people like Eskimo!! Too full on my @rse, psy is meant to get into your head and take you somewhere or at least to provide an environment for you to do this yourself. While I agree some of the samples are a little cheesy this is completely irrelevant. Somewhere I saw someone having a go at the samples in My Rave - um, if you missed it this is a throwback to the "oldschool" so having a dated sample like that is entirely appropriate. For that matter using a Prodigy sample is once again entirely appropriate in this track. It is the whole point of the track that it sounds old, the clue is in the name!!
"All his tracks are the same" - and so were Beethoven's so what is your point. The same could be said for the vast majority of albums in any genre. In fact, listen to any compilation, usually has a similar vein through all tracks. That is the point of an album!!! Tracks/songs of a similar ilk collected on the one CD. He is more diverse than a lot of artists out there. So this criticism is just bull! Even a lyric band as diverse in style and ability as Ween is "guilty", if that's how you want to put it, of having a Ween sound. Eskimo's sound is Eskimo's sound, good on him, it's awesome, keep doing it, let Voice of Cod write Voice of Cod tracks, let Eskimo write Eskimo ... any view that his work is derivative is also bull and a red herring - 99% of music is derivative, if not in terms of sound then in terms of memes. This is just how music scenes work. If he was blowing through a hollow egg while standing on his head underwater making a beat with his knees would that be original enough? Bet it would sound sh!t too! So long as it is a progression on what has gone before then this whole idea of "derivative" is just a red herring and not a considered critique.
Anyway, enough on the back foot, now the front foot - Electric Scream!! I can not stop playing this, lucky for my neighbours I have found a remix with Puzzle so they don't hear the same song all the time, lol. But music like this is just awesome, it is the type of music that your body finds its own to on the dancefloor. Driving energy, sliding layers, beautiful - and a pretty funny sample, I am in search of a 6 ft pile of radios to dance in front of myself now. On Part 2, Are You Serious? - now you people saying it is not anything new ... please tell me where to find other stuff as “done” as this, I want more ... sure it is derivative in that it uses many sounds we've "heard before" but who has put them together in such a succinct and clever manner? Surely, far from the cr@p which has been labeled "progressive" that this is truly progressive in that it takes the old and makes it new again (again talking of appropriate samples in Eskimo tracks I particularly like his use of "that's progressive" in My Rave. EXACTLY, progressive is taking the old and making it new by moving the sound forward. Not the bullsh!t boring rolling go nowhere stuff which is really only played because djs have become too cool to risk making mistakes mixing proper full on DANCE music – that’s not progressive, that’s just sh!t)
Anyway, at the end of the day, too be honest (to use a few well used terms in a non-progressive manner) this music is meant to make you dance and ESKIMO has me and many around me spinning ... even people who had lost the ear for the psy sound are coming back into the fold due to Eskimo. KEEP IT UP BOY ... where's part 3, I wannit?
