Search - Console :: Rocket In The Pocket

Listen to this CD and take a stroll through the Clouds...

scc-dallas | Dallas, TX | 05/09/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you like the "kind" of Music made beautiful by bands like Stereolab, Mouse On Mars etc. you will absolutely love this CD. It's a little 80's (In a good way, if there is such a thing), a little 90's and even more 21st Century. This album provides the right kind of bubbly, fantastic, fluffy fulfillment that sends your mind swirling to colorful places! Listen to it and be happy - you will be dancing on the clouds in your mind. Once you start listening, you will find that it is impossible to turn off. Remember - even computers fall in love. scc."

Four-eyed B-Boys on the Enterprise

Daisuke Takeoka | Monterey Park, CA United States | 03/05/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"With flying kicks and swift punches from the tierra of electronica (Germany), Console is a band of four dedicated musicians, ready to stupefy you with a breed of ambient chill-out, e-funk music created using many sounds heard in daily life. Through the usage of tonal harmony and rhythm, Console takes you on a roller-coaster of moods. Take for instance, tracks 5 and 6 ("Pigeon Party" and "Delay Dackel"). The two songs are tonally and rhythmically opposites. "Pigeon Party" is in a minor key and has an unsettling break beat giving it a sinister feel, while "Delay Dackel" shows optimism in its harmony and simple beats. Yet the two are united by the DJing technique of beat matching, blending the edges together to provide a smooth non-stop flow between the tracks while changing the moods. Console has made use of other musical techniques to show their sophistication in their knowledge of music. There is a passacaglia of a fax/internet dial up sound on the last movement of "Gulls Galore" allowing a natural flow right into "Dolphin Dos", which is composed of beats heard over the ear piece of a phone. By now one maybe asking him/herself how these strange song titles could actually be song titles, but when one hears the tunes they will realize that these titles add an appropriate subject matter to the non-programmatic music. A few of the numbers may seem too "sci-fi geek" oriented for some tastes, but anyone can learn to enjoy the trekieness of it (given listening to it a couple of times). Over all the album is composed of retro synths and distortion, layered with a dose of b-boy funk breaks. This album is a definite keeper for fans of innovative and intelligent music."

Minimal is maximal

andy | munich, germany | 06/30/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"ok..this is definetely the absolutely best cd that came out of germany in the last years, together with "shrink" from the notwist. and the main performer martin gretschmann from weilheim, is the keyboarder/synthie-man of notwist, that is responsible for the trippy beats and all kinds of blips and strange noises in notwist. this album definetely sets new standards in minimal electro-pop. this man works with all kind of old synthies and emulators. its not really dance music..its definetely brain music for listening alone. and somehow its like a story. i have never heard a completely electronic album without any kind of vocals that tells stories and expresses feelings like this cd. the chart-single and catchy "14 zero zero" may sound like a bunch of fun when you haer it first...but after a while you will never listen to that song anymore because the other songs that dont get into your ear on the first listener are just much more complex and "deeper", and they sound better, and better the more you listen to them. shows of this "group" are like church masses, the people get completely hypnotized, and just stare upfront and listen like in trance...BUY THIS CD ! you will never regret it."