Manta Raya - "Remix My Ass! Vol. 1"

Mostly dull electroclash (5/10) MANTA RAYA is born in 2000, in Argentina. Mecha, George and Quique knew each other studying Visual Arts in Mar del Plata city. At that time, 1998, they played in different bands. This is how they shared their art and gigs and parties sometimes. After a while, destiny and the same love for music brought them back together. And they had no other choice but to do what they like the most. to Rock!! They've played in every single place they could. From the smallest shitty underground bar to big venues, clubs and festivals. In march '07 Manta Raya was selected by Paste Magazine and Coca Cola Company to be one of the independent artists promoted at Coca Cola's website. Finally their new album Yeah! was released in October 2007. Produced by Manta Raya. Mixed by MantaGeorge and Luciano Siclari. Mastered by Luciano Siclari. Supported by UMI ( Independents Musicians Union ). And one week after the release, they started their first European Tour performing in Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris and Guadalajara. I never listened to Manta Raya, so I cannot compare these remixes to their original versions. I will, therefore, judge them on their own merits. Most of the remixes fall into electroclash genre, with accompaniment based on 8-bit - to a rather tiring effect. Dull punkish vocals combined with primitive disco-like beats add up to a really ugly whole. The only two interesting tracks are nos. 02 & 08, because of much more intelligent, breakbeat-based instrumentals. The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.

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Chlopomania - "Lodowisko Remixes"

Be eco-friendly - remix your garbage (0/10) Florian filsinger, Television Tom, Hydrator, Aqpa, Puzia remixes well known chlopomania track called Lodowisko. It's a bland electroclash tune with extremely stupid lyrics that were meant to be funny, but failed miserably. The original mix is accompanied by several remixes of varying, but not so high, quality. It doesn't matter anyhow, because remixing such an atrocious piece of garbage like this one is pointless anyhow and does not qualify for listening. Even one star is too much for this - it deserves 0/5 rating. The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.

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Chlopomania - "Chlopomania" [SP]

Bland electroclash (2/10) Some of our friends started to practice old polish idea of life. They were tired of everyday citylife. They decide to go back to the village. If you like to know what they found on their way, download this short single neccesary. Chlopomania is a nice piece of fresh commodore, acid electroclash with nice vocals and lyrics. This song can fight for a title of 2009 summer hit! In some ways, this song is similar to some well known polish electro / rap hit. Do you know which hit is it? Do you know why? Do you want to guess?

It's bland electroclash, with lyrics that were meant to be funny, but are just stupid, and a tiring synthetic tune. Waste of time.

The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.

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Vein Cat - "Fucked Up" [SP]

Primitive synthpop (4/10) First release at 49manekinow.net [49mannequines.net] is "fucked up" [single] by vein cat.release is an orginal version of vein cat song comes from polish electro/clash various artist compilation: "ping kong 2". vein cat share the orginal version especially for 49manekinow net-lab. Primitive synthpop. 80's nightmare resurrected. Run for your life! The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.

Pink Bazooka - "Kipon" [SP]

Generic electroclash - try harder next time (6/10) Kipon single gives to you few minutes of brilliant dirty pop filled with strong electro beats, trance melodies. all of it is wrapped by beauty vocals of Lady Pinky. Kipon is a dose of extremly good music so do not hesitate to download this single! It's generic electroclash with a decent melody, a nice punkish feel, but mediocre female vocals. She is so devoid of passion and energy that it sounds as if someone made her sing against her will. Totally out-of-place in such energetic song. If you like the genre, you might want to check it out anyhow, but don't expect too much. Try harder next time, guys. With a different vocalist - or maybe just pay her more? ;-) The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.

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