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Impossibly crisp production, impeccable interplay between rhythm and effects, and the most difficult quality for any electronica producer to nail down: a crucial, distinctive sound.
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UrbIt's that very punk rock-gone-underground-dance spirit that separates Swayzak's latest from the more rudimentary electro-art pack. [Oct 2002, p.98]
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Despite some clunkers, Dirty Dancing delivers.
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Dirty Dancing is a thoughtful, darkly humorous album -- a consistently danceable mix of state of the art electronic music trends.
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While it's not torture to listen to Dirty Dancing repeatedly, it does contain more than its rightful share of slip-ups and missteps.
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While it's tempting to write it off as but one more retro paste-up, Swayzak's uncanny sense of texture, timbre, and space justifies an approach that otherwise seems like a drift toward Alzheimer's.
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Dirty Dancing works best when there is something to balance against the brittle, Atari-era underflow.
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Unfortunately, the vocalists riding on top of the grooves, from the limpid Clair Dietrich to the ridiculously affected Jeremy, are uniformly l-a-m-e.
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MixerA lukewarm tribute to '80s industrial music. [Sep 2002, p.80]
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The WireUncomfortable deliery and thin lyrical content suggest that utilising vocals isn't their strong suit. [#223, p.69]