Gigi d'Agostino makes music that sounds at least five years behind his techno peers. That makes his second album both a bit charming and archaic. The Euro-disco tracks have a high-energy sweep to them that carries over well to the dancefloor, yet the near-basic approach to them already seems destined for sporting-event wasteland. Chants, vocoders, and electro-riffs populate this effort, and D'Agostino, smiling the whole time, cheerily glides right along with the clichTs. ~ Michael Gallucci, All...   [ read more ]

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Gigi D'Agostino makes music that sounds at least five years behind his techno peers. That makes his second album both a bit charming and archaic. The Euro-disco tracks have a high-energy sweep to them that carries over well to the dancefloor, yet the near-basic approach to them already seems destined for sporting-event wasteland. Chants, vocoders, and electro-riffs populate this effort, and D'Agostino, smiling the whole time, cheerily glides right along with the clichTs. [The bonus disc edition...   [ read more ]

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It's hard to imagine that Italian acoustic guitarist Peppino D'Agostino is a self-taught musician. Especially since he covers such a wide gamut of genres amid his nimble plucking, articulate voicings, and, at times, dazzling technical veracity. In the liners, the guitarist states that this production features a collection of solos that he composed over a 35-year span. D'Agostino excels when merging disparate, ethnocentric musings into a framework consisting of cleverly devised hooks and melodies. He ...   [ read more ]

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