Single Reviews

Armand Van Helden - My My My
(Southern Fried)

www.southernfriedrecords.com

Released 23/08/04

Does no-one else think that alternative mixes are a bit of a cop-out? We allow piss-poor dance artists to produce numerous alternative versions of hideous pieces of shit, which all remain pieces of shit whether dressed in samba beats or drill-n-bassed to within an inch of their sorry lives. Make a decision and stick by it, for fuck's sake.

Dire. One eternal cheesy vocal sample (don't ask me what, but to these ears it sounds like Lionel Richie felching the Jackson Five) is backed by various Ibiza flavoured rhythms (someone shakes a coconut, someone bongs a bongo, every now and then the sea washes in a steel drum). It desperately screams "SUN! SAMBUCA! SEX! SANDALS! SKIN CANCER!" and resorts to every one of those Klassik
Summer Choon techniques, like occasionally dropping down to handclaps or once in a while sounding like someone just dropped the stereo in the bath.

I once woke up, in the early hours of the morning, to find that the unconscious, incontinent drunk on the bunk above me had copiously urinated in his bed. The urine that had soaked through the mattress rained upon me for probably half an hour before I awoke to find myself absolutely saturated in the man's piss.

That was preferable to this.

Tom Pegg - 1/10