"Slap this on your deck at a party and watch everyone go loco. Super happy music with fantastic samples and spectacular shifts in tempo. State of the art and sparkles like pixie dust."
Kind of a bad impression
Peter T. Winters | 04/28/2000
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I have listened to P-5's "International Playboy & Playgirl", and "The sound of Music". What I like about this group is the type of pop inspired by the whole breakfast-at-tiffany's-burt-bacarach-airport-music quality that the two previous titles possess. I guess since it IS a remix album, it was kind of a bad impression simply because it leans a little more on the electronic/disco side, I could not really get into it. If you are a fan of fast-paced beat, not techno or dance, but disco and groove, then definitely buy the album. Otherwise if you like P-5 because of the types of qualities I mentioned, don't pay too much attention to it."
Loungecore Breakbeat Masterpiece
Posniak | Tokyo, Japan | 10/01/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Any album by "Various Artists" always seems to fail because you end up only liking the feel of 80% of the stuff. This album, however, a collection of remixes holds together incredibly well under the genre which Readymade Records has almost singlehandedly invented, Loungecore Breakbeat. Most songs hover around the 140-150 bpm mark. The Lupin remixes may get a bit repetetive to some, but for anyone with a serious interested in Pizzicato 5 and the Japanese scene, this album is a mandatory purchase."
The dish is readymade and already mixed...
Peter T. Winters | 08/12/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This collection came to me quite by accident and the main reason for it was the interesting coverart that reminded me of Soviet-time pics from schoolbooks about the friendship of nations. Little kids from different countries - whites, black, yellowes - holding hands and wearing their traditional clothes. Well, now I have to admit that the cover is the least of this CD. Readymade Records, Tokyo is the homeground of Pizzicato 5, Fantastic Plastic Machine and 5th Garden, who all do very good music, and this album also features many more high-class modern-music-makers. This album is the non-Japan version of two Readymade's compilations - Readymade Remixes (remixes of their artists works) and Punch the Monkey (remixes of an age-old Japanese anime Lupin the 3rd's theme done by some of the best in business, incl. their artists).Already the first song, Lupin's '78 version (remixed by Toshio Matsuura from United Future Organization), features super cool jazzy rhythm and the rest is getting even better. 'Trailer Music' with it's cut-off sounds and dumb-beat, 'Mon Amour Tokyo' (remixed by Le Hammond Inferno, who's one of the guys behind this nin-Japan collection) featuring crazy-cool fast-paced beats and a Godzilla(the South Park version)-like vocals, "Porno 3003" that is simply erotique... And when the last notes of absolutely insane "Please Stop" have faded you just can't do nothing besides hiting the replay button."