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BIZARRE Any Day

CD KREC 004

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This is all a bit too much. 10 Estonian bands covering/remixing Bizarre's classic track? OK, so Bizarre probably aren't a household name outside Estonia, but I got the original on a tape in '97, and it seemed to be on the cutting edge at that point. What's so crazy about this record is that you would have thought it next to impossible to improve on the original, a squiggly sequencer and fuzz-heavy update on The Wake circa "Here Comes Everybody", with the great girl/boy vocals and everything. And probably no one here improves on Bizarre's version, but that's OK, because the original is on here as track 11. And also because everything on here is quite good, and quite tasteful, and you don't get to hear Estonian bands (aside from the rather good Dallas, who aren't on here) just any day. I'm told that excerpts are available on the label website, and otherwise I wouldn't have the foggiest idea where to get this from: www.kohvirecords.ee.

Alexander, Radio Khartoum
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