Based on a guilty pleasure ‘80s song of
my youth by the Pop Duo making up Boy Meets Girl (George
Merrill & Shannon Rubicam), always thought Cabin Crew did a decent remix as
far as the original lyrics (re-recorded or not) being catchy for repeatable
chorus and throwing that dance bass drum over it. This doesn’t work on everything as much as many DJs will try
it on all kinds of songs. Maybe it’s more-so the music video’s eccentric
visuals that lock it in for me though, I don’t know, definitely recommendable
either way.
The Sunset Strippers “Falling Stars”
version seems almost like an attempt to show up Cabin Crew’s, coming out a few
months afterward to put their flavor and dance choreography into it. (Electronic
music remix beef? I joke) Not many noticeable difference music-wise, but Cabin
Crew does have more dynamic nature to it, and in my opinion the better of the
two.
Release Date: January 2014 Ocean Star
Empire -- made up of Namad Moon, Killik and Faxi Nadu, representing the ‘Three
Dots on the Map’ Portugal, Germany, and Israel respectively – is a new
combination of talent for the early part of the year that’s produced a extremely
spacey Goa/Psy-Trance album, most definitely made for listeners’ own audio-visual
input (Or of a hallucinogenic kind) for Sci-fi writers this is the kind of
music I think is good to utilize for influence, and with so many movies with these
themes currently you’d think that someone would use it within their scores and
soundtracks… *shrugs*. Especially as they – Ocean Star – themselves describe
it: “…vision
morphed into action.”
Tracklist:
Arrival
Three Dots On A
Map
How Small We Are
Killik –
Spaetzie (OSE Remix)
Woven Drops
Rain From Within
Nuno’s Abduction
Phrygian Drifter
All Good Things
Eyes in the dark
The intro “Arrival”
not a primary song yet still a visionary set up of what’s about to follow up,
presenting Ocean Star in character with alien vocal effects to pull us into these
musical stories. “Three Dots on the Map” “How Small We Are” and Woven Drops” are
all full-fledge Progressive Goa/Psy-trance are some of the best to define the
album’s tone, even with more to go.
“Rain From Within”
has the most unique/stand out sounds on the album, and “Phrygian Drifter” is
definitely a Shuffler-ready song for the dancers. “All Good Things” slows it
down, into downtempo Goa,good
addition that needed break for the mostly speedy BPMs making up most of the
album.“Eyes in the Dark” follow ups by dropping the
heavy beats and psychedelic rhythms all together, which was unexpected. Very deep,
sensorial Space-Age ambient throughout it all, something that goes right along
the lines of Gravity's
soundtrack. I think this song was great send-off for the album, just to
allow someone to imagine seeing, and being comfortable within, the “dark” of
space itself.
