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(U.S.E.) United State of Electronica
With a name like United State of Electronica, what exactly do you expect? U.S.E. are the consummate party band of now, today, Saturday night, 2005.
What began as a joke band (an imaginary electronic band from Mannheim, Germany) quickly turned into the makings of an overnight sensation. Brothers and sisters of the get-the-crowd-moving music of Daft Punk and Junior Senior, their self-titled debut is stuffed to the gills with pure joy and happiness, and more fun than you can shake a stick at. Recently, their bouyant electro-pop has been making a splash in Seattle, the hometown of this seven member-strong collective. Strobe lights, brightly colored t-shirts, and huge, huge house beats abound and their live shows are described as grin-inducing, spazzed-out spectacles of synthesized beats and lots of vocoder. Lots of vocoder.
Winking irony, solemn detachment, stuffy pretentiousness? You won't find a whit of that here because U.S.E are all about the L-O-V-E. "This goes out to those who wanna shake it and raise their fists," goes "All Sounds All People" before slamming into the happy wall and shout-along tune of "Open Your Eyes." And "Who doesn't wanna have fun now?" they ask in "Climb the Walls (Umbrella of Love)." I'm entirely inclined to agree.
U.S.E. - It Is On!
U.S.E. - Emerald City
U.S.E. - Vamos A La Playa
Official U.S.E. site. Buy their self-titled debut from Sonic Boom Records or download it for free.
Posted by Queen of the Front Row at 03.07.05 at 2:01 PM
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