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Despite its macabre name, Dead Can Dance is not a satanic disco band. And while there is plenty of dark magic on Into the Labyrinth, there are no banshee vocals or pounding beats. Instead, Dead Can Dance taps the ecstatic power of Middle Eastern devotional music, Gregorian chant and Celtic canticle to forge a mesmerizing sound that seems to transcend centuries and cultures. Pulsing with primal rhythms, layered keyboards and ululating vocals, this is World Beat music with a mystical edge...
...providing a remarkable picture of the world in which the Kittredges and their friends live, but they provide a stark contrast to the handful of shots taken in the less ethereal parts of the city. When Paul moves in with two aspiring actors in their flat above a roller disco Downtown, and when he phones Ouisa from the West Village, the love affair between New York and the camera cools. We can truly see the disparity of the worlds in which New York's rich and poor live, and sense the unease which this creates...
...reveal that Prince could not escape the banal rhythms of early-eighties pop. On the one hand there is the almost Van Halenesque synth and sequencer bass of "Dirty Mind" (and the groove on "1999" sounds suspiciously like "Jump".) The other early sound is the still-lingering presence of disco. Prince often verged on club music, but his best work owes more to other commercial styles like hip hop, funk and even rock. And just when the sound of drum machines and synthesizers starts to become tiresome on this album, tracks such as "Sexy M.F." and "Power Fantastic" show...
...City across the street and to the right. Wer gonna have a funk-Y good time, free yer mind, and yer rearend will do th'followin'. Follow follow follow yer ass will follow and what a fine FAT ASS it is and BREAK to nineteen hundred and ninety-three disco is dead but now so is punk rock and glam rock and pop rock and self-righteous rock and freedom rock and even grunge rock. Memories are short, dreams die hard and here it comes FIVE CDs urging and perturbing that you GOT to make it FUNKY...
...slooowed down and laiiid back, smooth and no fast and furious, sly thick beats sounding like he's been ridin' a HORSE a horse of course of course unless its a SMACK and JB himself sounding...restrained? So here it comes, full-force Mothership, landing at a DISCO nearest you and now, twenty-years later still goin' down pickin' yer ass and then smellin' th' funky finger, right in yo' nose. From my ass to you. Achoo...