Very superior

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Very superior
Studio album by Vinylshakerz

Publication
(s)

May 12, 2006

Label (s) Kontor Records

Format (s)

CD, download, streaming

Genre (s)

Dance , techno , house

Title (number)

15 (+2 music videos)

running time

68:36

occupation

production

Thomas Detert, Rico Bernasconi

chronology
  Very superior  
Single releases
March 14, 2005 One night in Bangkok
September 5, 2005 Club Tropicana
December 17, 2005 Daddy cool

Very Superior is the only album by the German music project Vinylshakerz . It was released on May 12, 2006.

backgrounds

Very Superior was produced by the two members of Vinylshakerz, music producers Thomas Detert and Rico Bernasconi , and contains the singles One Night in Bangkok , Club Tropicana and Daddy Cool . All three decouplings were able to prove themselves in the German charts and sometimes also outside the German-speaking area , for example in the Netherlands , Belgium and Finland , in the hit parades. The songs were part of a wave of dance - remixes that DJ your customized already popular songs and in particular the mid- 2000s, years of great popularity and good sales figures enjoyed. Other representatives include The Sound of San Francisco and What a Feeling (Flashdance) from the Global Deejays , Falling Stars from the Sunset Strippers , In the Year 2525 from Venice Beat feat. Tess Timony , Out of Touch from Uniting Nations and Call on Me and Proper Education from Eric Prydz .

music

Very Superior contains songs in the styles Techno , House , Eurodance , Dance , Pop and Reggae House , which are carried by pounding bass drums and simple, distinctive synthesizer melodies. In several of the songs, the singing comes exclusively from samples of mostly already known titles by other artists, whereby individual word and sentence fragments are partially cut together to form a new melody using the chopping technique. Studio singers or entirely computer-generated vocals also appear; A recurring motif is also an artificially lower pitched voice, which - especially at the beginning of the songs - speaks individual passages and, among other things, announces the band or repeats the name or text of the respective song. In a large number of the songs, the instrumental is more in the foreground than the vocals.

Cover design

The cover artwork for Very Superior shows in black and white two women in bikinis who are up to their hips in water , but their upper bodies and hair are also wet. The background is completely white . Over the entire motif, stars of different sizes in different shades of blue can be seen, which cluster in the upper left corner. Above this point is the name of the music project in light blue and the album title below in white.

Track list

Very superior  
No. title Songwriter   length
1.   Vinylshakerz (Back on Popular Demand) (Album Version)     4:06 
2. One Night in Bangkok (Vinylshakerz Screen Cut)     3:29 
3.   Got No Reason (VS Thrust Mode Mix)     5:59
4th Janelle  (Ragga House Mix)     4:43 
5. Tekkno Trash (Pay No Cash Cut)     6:22 
6th Tempt the Fate  (Vinyl Shakerz Re-Cut)     4:27 
7th Daddy Cool  (Vinyl Shakerz Screen Cut)       2:51
8th. The Funk (Disco: Disco)  (Album Version)     3:42
9. @ The Weekend (Witch-Bitch-Mix)     4:12
10. Club Tropicana (Vinyl Shakerz Screen Cut)     3:25 
11. Shining Star  (Album Version)     3:52
12. Kingdom of God (666 inXtreme Re-Mix)     5:56
13. Em-Tee-Vee (Album Version)     3:06 
14th Daddy Cool (Electrolaz Re-Mix)     6:16 
15th Tempt the Fate (BAT Looks Slippy Mix)     7:40 
16. One Night in Bangkok  (The Video)       
17th Club Tropicana  (The Video)      
Overall length:  68:36

criticism

Very Superior received mixed to negative reviews. The similarities to the style of the musician Benny Benassi and other artists who imitate his music were noticed and the re-use of the formula also used by the Global Deejays of "dismembered" samples of well-known songs on tracks such as One Night in Bangkok was criticized . These are an epitome of the "terrible dance taste these days". However, the more house music genre, such as Got No Reason or @ The Weekend were positively highlighted and the work was seen as one of the better albums by artists who want to benefit from past hits by sampling.

success

Despite commercially successful singles, Very Superior failed to position itself in the charts worldwide.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of publication. Retrieved April 27, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ "One Night in Bangkok" charts. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  3. ^ "Club Tropicana" charts. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ "Daddy Cool" charts. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ album cover. Retrieved April 27, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ Random Access review. Retrieved April 27, 2020 (English).