Album # 9 - Sonny J - Disastro
September 23rd 2008 12:22
Don’t you just love it when someone recommends an album to you and you have no preconception of what it’s going to sound like, or indeed, if you’ll actually enjoy it or not?
Today’s review is the result of just that. An email in fact from my brother back in England telling me to download (legally of course!!!) Sonny J’s Disastro. Thanks bro’, it’s a corker.
Of late, there’s been a severe lack of dance albums that are simply just fun. Disastro however oozes the stuff from start to finish. True, it’s all been done before, but the injection of life Sonny J has cut and pasted together makes for a gratifying listening experience.
The Liverpool born DJ owes more than a small debt to the likes of Fatboy Slim, The Go! Team and The Avalanches, with recycled vocals and sample heavy mash-ups the order of the day (the day could quite easily be one from the Big-Beat peak back in 1999). The sprinkling of pop, rock and 70s soul makes for an almost perfect summer album, with the irresistible radio friendly hits Can’t Stop Moving (a direct nod to classic Motown) and Handsfree guaranteed to remain in your head for weeks on end whether you like it or not.
Quite what we’ll think of this in 6 months time is another matter entirely (just when was the last time you dusted off your old copy of Fatboy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way Baby?), but for now, Disastro is the perfect album to throw on when preparing for that big Saturday night on the town.
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