Disco de Faithless: “We Come One”

Someone actually refrences this track to the 80s? I felt compelled to write a review after reading over homeboy's who said this track is too 80s. First of all, listening to the entire (great) OUTROSPECTIVE album puts this track in perfect perspective. That album (like most albums from the modern dance alumni elite; Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Underworld, Prodigy, Daft Punk, etc.) takes the listener on a journey. Not the old kind of album journey your parents would take when they listened to the Eagles "Desparado" for the 1,000th time. The type of journey which is something altogether different than any type of album that had arrived pre-1985.

A lot of people give an awesome amount of credit to the trailblazing style of hip-hop and rap, and looking at how much its evolved since the Run DMC & co. dropped "King of Rock" in '85 it wouldn't be right to take anything away from hip hop (There's a great hip hop underground out there for the savvy crate diggers). But contrary to hip hop, the revolutionary sound of dance music has not been given its deserved street cred. While you can go all the way back to early noise experiments in the 60's if you want, it's the fierce-in-your-face-no-holds-barred kind of music that begs for a martini that in my opinion has not been given props in the mainstream. The kind of stuff created by Faithless. People who compare this to 80s music are missing the point and the boat. These remixes are for hard clubbing, right up against a well endowed or busty member of the opposite sex with 4 cocktails already washing over you and the feeling that your night is just beginning. I've heard clammerings about dance music as being dead, but with UNCROMPROMISING tracks like this one (plus check out "Mass Destruction" on 'No Roots') it's not ending ANY TIME SOON. There's so much going on in the underground it's almost wrong, but here's a few artists in the second tier of the dance music elite that I would check out if I were you: Kaskade, Miguel Migs, MJ Cole, Erlend Oye, Rae & Christian, London Elektricity, Recloose, Akufen, the Soft Pink Truth, Cinematic Orchestra, Hot Chip, anything you can a hold of by Late Night Alumni, Solu Music (with the Awesome new album!!!), anything with Zoe Johnston (with Bent or Neon Heights, she also collaborates with Faithless) and check out an underrated downbeat group Nanang Tatang. As far as the club goes though Nathan Fake, Francios K (check his remix of Rinocerose's "Mes Vecances A Rio"), James Zabiela, Tom Middleton (I'll never get tired of "Take me with You" WITH the Madonna sampled vocal ending) plus DnB masters DJ Hype, High Contrast, Concord Dawn, Makoto and aformentioned London Elektricity.

Please, please don't tell me FAITHLESS went for that retro-80s trend! Not them! Not Rollo, not Sister Bliss, not Jamie! Not Maxi Jazz, for Chrissake!

This was the band that brought us "Reverence" and "Sunday 8 PM".

This was the band I used to play to my rocker friends (alongside Lamb and Goldie) to show them what's REAL electronica.

Who misses the 80s anyway?!

This hurts.