Karoshi

Karoshi Artist: Salaryman
Label: Twelve Inch (Redeye)
Category: Music


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


UPC: 795306400424
EAN: 0795306400424
ASIN: B00003JAH8


Release Date: 2002-01-01

Karoshi


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Tracks:

  1. Strong Holder
  2. The Companion
  3. Thomas Jefferson Airplane
  4. My Hands Are Always In Water
  5. Monterey Days/Malibu Nights
  6. Dull Normal
  7. Graze The Umbra
  8. Taco Muerte
  9. My Dog Has Fleas
  10. Craters Of The National Moon
  11. Karoshi

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  1. The Electric Forest

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Put down the headphones and bust a move.......2000-10-25

More fun than the debut, if missing a little of the textured passion that provoked all those My Bloody Valentine comparisons. Karoshi, Japanese for "death from overwork" (absolutely warranted when you take the full schedule of their other band, Poster Children, into account...PC are alive and well, btw, looking for the live CD/DVD in the middle of next year!), instead packs a lethal dose of electronic funk-rock-soul. It's hard, highly original, beats for the first 9 tracks, with a few breathers (Dull Normal, Taco Muerte) and crowd-pleasers (Strong Holder, Graze The Umbra) making for a great thinking person's party mix. The Kraftwerk-by-way-of-Devo comparison is right on - I still think Dull Normal sounds like Swelling Itching Brain at about quarter-speed - but there's a lot more here than that comparison even hints at. Salaryman's genius is in taking decades of avant-garde ideas for electronic music, adding a few new ideas of their own, and making it into good ol' power-to-the-people *fun*.

4 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Ege Bamyasi ~ Can
  2. Since I Told You It's Over, Pt. 2 ~ Stereophonics
  3. Everybody's Gold ~ Karl Broadie
  4. Northern Rage ~ Storm Warrior
  5. Tooth & Nail Rock Sampler ~ Various Artists
  6. Orchestralli ~ Stewart Copeland
  7. Islands ~ Cyrus Faryar
  8. I'm Not Running Anymore ~ John Mellencamp
  9. Greatest Hits ~ M.F.S.B.
  10. Rock On, 1971: Ain't No Sunshine ~ Various Artists

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Miles Smiles ~ Miles Davis

Pachora ~ Pachora

Hello It's Me, Meta Rosen

Live in Las Vegas, 1962 ~ Warne Marsh

New Jerusalem ~ New Jerusalem

Italy After Dark ~ Various Artists

Meisterstuecke ~ Al Bano & Romina Power

Selection: Chansons D'amour ~ Various Artists

100% Piano Romantique

Sun ~ Ua