Always Never Again:Supersystem

Title: Always Never Again

Label: Touch & Go

Genre: of-the-wall party music

Rating: 5.9 of 7

Holy shit, I think these guys committed a cardinal sin… They left Dischord for a bigger label! What? You don’t remember seeing Supersystem on the Dischord label? That’s because they changed their name for obvious reasons, this is the artists formerly known as EL GUAPO! I have to give some props to this DC/NY quartet, because that took some balls. Luckily though, their care-free, off-the-wall party music has not changed at all. Exploring the territories of free jazz, trance, punk, pop, world and of course dance music, Supersystem is able to create a soundtrack to the quirkiest, craziest and best dressed party in all of the free land. The self-recorded album (I guess they didn’t lose the Dischord aesthetic) was guided by keyboardist extraordinaire Pete Cafarella and virtuoso guitarist Rafael Cohon. It’s definitely a fun record, and a step forward from their last full length. As Touch & Go put it, it’s “a bubbling stew that sound like equal parts Kraftwerk, Timbaland, and your favorite Ethiopiques CD.”

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