NAZ BAR

I was checking out this band because I'm a curious guy and since they are listed under Space Rock which I usually like I was thinking it could be something decent. But what a disappointment after listening to it. During the first spin I couldn't find anything interesting for me and put it aside (in a more or less "crap folder" on my harddisc). After some time I remembered it and gave it a second chance. And still the same impression as before. A sort of more sophisticated techno music mainly done on digital instruments. Actually guitar, bass and drums listed in the line-up are hardly evident. At times they mix the techno loops with Latin American dance music like Mambo, very often there are hypnotic spoken vocals, but anything that could hit a progster's attraction. Really far far away from the good bands in this sub-genre like Ozric Tentacles, Pink Floyd or Porcupine Tree. I would say only interesting for Techno freaks who are looking for a bit more sophisticated dance music. No way for more than one star!

Interesting mix of world musics-oriented electronica, filtered through a Middle Eastern bar sensibility--think Rick's Café Américain from *Casablanca*, perhaps, transplanted to an alien planet--but with an eclectic and electric house band with crate-digging DJs rather than the wondrous Sam. Has some exotic percussion tracks, some more ambient tracks, some groove tracks, and some weird and wild--and sometimes loungey--vocals. One song veers from someone singing English with a clear Indian accent to some synth-modulated alien-speak. Super cool. Has another song with the cryptic lyric that a shooting star is not a star because it shines so bright... a shooting star is not a star at all! While this isn't prog in the flurry of notes or structural complexity, it is prog in its eclectic mix of elements and its attempt to create new moods and textures out of a world-music, sci-fi, ambient/techno bed. Recommended!