Various – Onelove: Mobile Disco – Sony
It doesn’t really get bigger than this at the moment. Australia’s searing club brand Onelove, along with Sony BMG, is ready to do it again. Hot on the trail of the gold selling and A.R.I.A chart topping success of Smash Your Stereo and Your Disco Will Eat You compilations, Onelove gets moving with their latest release, Mobile Disco. As always they’ve called in the big guns to mix this one. On the first disc titled ‘Midnight’, Melbourne’s Disco Mafia gets the party started with funky disco house tracks. Kaz James from the multi-award winning Bodyrockers fame steps up and puts his hand to the ‘3AM’ disc, choc-full of electro house smashers. Meanwhile, the incomparable and somewhat rebellious boys Acid Jacks return with their over-the-top anything goes party mix on the ‘Backroom’ disc, bursting with surprises. Mobile Disco is the seventh instalment for Onelove’s winning series of popular dance compilations.
Puscifier – “V” is for vagina – Sony
Maynard James Keenan didn’t just name his latest side project after a fictional band from the TV program Mr. Show, he was actually on the show, along with his Tool bandmate Adam Jones. Though the unfortunately titled “V†Is For Vagina is the band’s first album (collaborators include members of Nine Inch Nails, Primus, King Crimson, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Rage Against the Machine, plus Lisa Germano and Milla Jovovich), the name and concept have been kicking around for a while. It was used to co-brand a clothing line, and the group appeared briefly in the Mr. Show movie, Run, Ronnie, Run. The long-gestating music is expectedly irreverent, loosely grounded in the gothy industrial-dance sounds of the early 90s. More pointedly, it sounds nothing like Tool. Still, for all its obvious reference points, Vagina finds Keenan attempting a fresh spin on the style.
