Diva X Machina, Vol. 2

Diva X Machina, Vol. 2 Artist: Various Artists
Label: Cop International
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 703513003925
EAN: 4025905919017
ASIN: B000007T30


Release Date: 1998-07-21

Diva X Machina, Vol. 2


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Tracks:

  1. Darkness - 162
  2. One Mind - Magenta
  3. The Betrayal - Battery
  4. No Escape - Sabotage
  5. Spite - LUXT
  6. Twisted - Lucid Dementia
  7. Make My Nana - Donna Regina
  8. Hypocrite - Clan Of Xtymox
  9. Pleiadian Agenda - Hanzel & Gretyl
  10. Dive - Evulva
  11. Butterfly - Tapping The Vein
  12. Serpents Serenade - This Ascension
  13. Exit Zero - The Razor Skyline
  14. Your Face In The Sun - Kirlian Camera
  15. Sif - Lvoux

Amazon.com

Sisters are doing it for themselves on Diva X Machina 2, the COP International label's second compilation of female-fronted industrial-dance bands. Much like the first disc, this one attempts to push the male-dominated genre of industrial against a wall, whisper sweet nothings in its ear, and then whip, spank, and bite it until it whimpers for mercy--and begs for more. Actually, while a good deal of the material here could loosely be called "fetish music," there's too much quality and variety to easily pigeonhole the disc: 162's "Darkness," a Die Form-like electro track with operatic vocals; Magenta's beautifully melancholy "One Mind"; the scorching Eros of Luxt's "Spite" and Evulva's "Dive"; and the otherworldly landscape of Kirlian Camera's "Your Face in the Sun." There are some duds (the KMFDM-meets-Red Hot Chili Peppers silliness of Hanzel & Gretyl's "Pleiadian Agenda," the '80s-metal-guitar stylings of Tapping the Vein's "Butterfly"), but fortunately they don't kill the mood. So light those candles, slip on that latex, and give this disc a listen: anger, eroticism, sarcasm, and intelligence have never hurt so good. --Steve Landau

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good to drive to........1999-08-05

Decent stuff! Some soft spots I could do without, Battery in particular aren't as sharp as they used to be, and I'd prefer more Sunshine Blind on this one (just personal favorites-- liked Vol. 1 better). Industrial is great to drive, type, vacuum, chop celery, or pop bubblewrap to. And most of these bands avoid the industrial sound-cliches that have started to send me running for Johnny Cash albums.

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  2. Tribute to Paul McCartney & Wings ~ Denny Laine
  3. Brushfire Fairytales ~ Jack Johnson
  4. Sandrose
  5. Pale Boy ~ Seth Geltman
  6. Dead Delites, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists
  7. Coma Divine ~ Porcupine Tree
  8. Dead Delites, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists
  9. The Sound That Ends Creation ~ Society 1
  10. Songs for the Jet Set/Collector Number One ~ Drugstore

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