After the super-brilliant album last year (easily in my top five fromlast year... I like it more with each listen) 'Electro Pop' AnthonyRother returns with a boatload of remixers to interpret the LittleComputer People song "Little Computer People." And that's the onlydownside to this album, really: only one track is remixed. I would haveloved to hear other versions of "Follow the Leader" or "I Am" or"Eyes"... but no. Alas, that really doesn't make this a poor album,because the remixers vary so much in sound and style that the wholething never gets repetitive. The first (and probably best) remix onthis disc is Anthony Rother's own - my God, what a remix it is. Takingthe rhythms and feel of the original song, switching, adding, andremoving a few beats here and there, and adding his *own voice* (that'sright! no vocoder!) he transforms the song from a C64 period piece intoan epic reconstruction. I had no idea he sounded so good without avocoder. Psylocity's "punk remix" is, well, just that: a dirty funkyreinterpretation of the original with slightly different vocals.Wonderful. Karl Bartos's (yes, THE Karl Bartos) remix is a wonderfulstring-drenched piece, while Heiko Laux's "Flow" remix is perfect for adancefloor. The "1979 Original" is a, uh, band-version of the track(guitars, drums, and all), and the disc ends with a fantastic new trackcalled "Little Computer Men." Tack on the brilliant Quicktime videosand PSI49NET discography and Commodore 64 emulator with PSI49NET demothat come packed on the disc, and this is a fantastic deal at a cheapprice. -
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