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quoted 55 lines From eye@interlog.com Wed Oct 26 21:05 EDT 1994
> From eye@interlog.com Wed Oct 26 21:05 EDT 1994
> Message-Id: <m0r0J5Q-000COvC@interlog.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 20:53 WET DST
> From: eye@interlog.com (eye WEEKLY)
> Subject: ON DISC: Love & Rockets -- Hot Trip To Heaven
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> eye WEEKLY October 27 1994
> Toronto's arts newspaper .....free every Thursday
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> ON DISC ON DISC
>
> LOVE & ROCKETS
> Hot Trip To Heaven
> Beggars Banquet/PolyGram
>
> by
> CHRIS TWOMEY
>
>
> The three members of Love & Rockets have never been afraid to take a
> step forward. When their former band Bauhaus was constantly maligned by
> the British press, they dared a journalist to interview them onstage
> before a gig. And when singer Pete Murphy became a smacked-out
> egomaniac, they kicked his skinny butt out and formed L&R. What the
> hell -- they wrote the songs anyway.
>
> At the end of the '80s, after rising to the top of the Modern Rock
> world, they saw no need to become arena rockers and called a time-out.
> A good idea since their contemporaries were long gone or creatively
> bankrupt: New Order's sense of boredom sunk Factory Records, while The
> Cure devolved into prankster drunks, having recently aired their dirty
> laundry in court as co-founder Lol Tolhurst whined about his 2 per cent
> share of the royalties.
>
> After five years of low-key projects, L&R's Brothers Haskins and Daniel
> Ash are back with the daring first of a pair of new albums. Hot Trip To
> Heaven is their version of '90s trance music. Shelved are the pop hooks
> and choruses as they emphasize their dreamy psychedelic side with
> mellow grooves, chilled synths and blissed-out vocals. They've done
> mantra-rock before, but now it's in vogue.
>
> Guest vocalist/percussionist Natacha Atlas even offers some World House
> influence (funky drummer Kevin Haskins has been producing her band
> Trans Global Underground). Furthermore, the single "Body & Soul" comes
> in dance and ambient remixes, including work by R&S's Locust (a.k.a.
> Mark Van Hoen of Sine Bubble/Autocreation, who remixed Seefeel).
>
> The only downside to Love & Rockets' '94 makeover is the unnecessary
> vocals. Mystical poet David J may see eye to eye with Artaud, but he
> can't rap.
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