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...release, Production. Best known here for producing Madonna’s hit single “Music,” the 39-year old is clearly attempting to parlay his 15 minutes of fame into pop success. However, with an album in which the misses far outweigh the hits, Mirwais?? stunning lack of sustained solo talent is the only clear point to emerge from Production’s muddled sound...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: C’est Mal: Frenchman Mirwais Flops | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...barely has time to recover before the Frenchman delivers the second half of his one-two punch with “Naive Song.” Upbeat and uplifting, the track creates a brand new world of escapist fantasies. Mirwais?? voice, delivering banal yet somehow appropriate lyrics, is filtered through a vocoder to encapsulate an otherworldly effect. Sounding at times like the soundtrack to a car commercial, “Naive Song” nevertheless manages to successfully fuse electronic sensibilities with a more conventional pop motif. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from here, and though...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: C’est Mal: Frenchman Mirwais Flops | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...anything but. Clearly an attempt to outdo Leftfield at its own game, it fails, and miserably at that. While Leftfield’s pulsating “Phat Planet” is a listenable, likable tune suffused with kinetic joy and drenched in brilliant shades of electronic tones, Mirwais?? own entry resembles nothing so much as a broken record, mindlessly churning out the same garbage ad nauseam. The vital energy is lacking, leaving nothing behind but a sparse wasteland of broken notes...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: C’est Mal: Frenchman Mirwais Flops | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

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