GALAN PIXS - Pink Film Edition
Songs: 15  Time:  70:12
Unless you've been residing in an igloo for the past 6 months, I'm sure you're familiar with at least one of this group's pieces, Use the Flashlight.  This particular track has gained quite a bit of recognition from both DJ's and clubgoers.  Use the Flashlight kicks off this amazing CD with a thunderous rhythm, tumultuous beats, and aggressive sequences.  This song is one of the most addicting dance pieces ever composed.  From there the album goes off into several different musical directions.  Welcome to Trashville does follow a similar musical pattern, but this time around the keys are overpowered by slick guitar riffs and more prominent vocals.  L.E. Kills Me is an intelligent dance track that is more reliant on the erratic beat programming and rumbling bass line.  Stepping over the boundary and into the realm of KMFDM clones, Anuschka Corazon sports a steady dance beat as well as gruff vocals, distant guitar riffs, and sweeping synth patterns.  Apoplexy's remix of this track transforms it into an even more beat orientated piece with the guitars being pushed back further into the mix and the sequences are more in line with the current intelligent techno genre.  Liebeslektion is a straight-ahead EBM track with growling vocals, a rolling rhythm and brash beats.  Daniel Myer supplies a Cleen mix of this track in which he tones down the overall aggressiveness of the original by forcing the vocals under the music and utilizing the beats as the main component of the mix.  Plastic Noise Experience also supply a mix of this piece and with theirs, they opt to do away with the heavier elements, allowing the synths and vocals to move to the forefront of the piece.  Regret is a much more laid back track in which a subtle, technofied beat is accompanied by a jagged rhythm and diffused vocals.  Synthpop act Matter of Fact add an acoustic guitar sound and both roughneck and slow, rugged beats to their remix of Regret.  Two other notable pieces are the cover versions of Plastic Noise Experience's Escape and Nine Inch Nails' Closer.  The former is a fine representation of the original piece and it seems that not much has been altered on The Galan Pixs version.  PNE's staple, minimalistic sound is left intact on Escape and the only major difference I can hear is in the vocals, which are a tad rougher than on the original.  The Closer cover is interesting, yet again, like the PNE cover, not much is changed.  Granted, The Galan Pixs add a bit of noisy sounds to it, but they're not that apparent unless you really listen for them.  Considering that Pink Film Edition is a culmination of pieces composed over the past few years, it has its highs and lows, but if The Galan Pixs carry on the sound they developed in songs such as Use the Flashlight and Welcome to Trashville (two of the newer tracks) I'll be very anxious to see what they do next.
    
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