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Ready, Set, ..... It's Club Dance Season
    Look Who's Dancin': I heard through those gossip lines that U2 was
going to embrace the club underground on their new studio collection,
"Pop", they weren't kidding. At first listen, the rhythm depths are found
deep on their single, "Discotheque" - and I'm not only referring to its
requisite set of remixes. David Morales and Satoshi Tomiie's
collaboration, which tidies up part of the original track's busy nation and
reshapes the percussion with the steady and stomping vigor of a
peak-hour anthem.

    In its original incarnation, the track is an intriguing study in the
results of fusing trippy drum 'n' bass flavors with a wiry pop melody.
I appreciate the bands hunger to test new waters, and their willingness
to shine a positive, image-elevating light on the music. The questioning
eye will come once the band-wagon of copycats gets rolling.

    Are you burning those ABBA candles? Well don't blow them out yet!
There's a Swedish ingenue, Josefin Nilsson, album "Shapes", that
features the first compositions and production from Benny Anderson
and Bjorn Ulvaues in more than 10 years. The album's success, thanks
in large to the uncanny tonal similarities between Nilsson's voice and
ABBA's Frida Lyngstod and Agnetha Faltskog. The singer is backed
by a number of the same musicians from ABBA's classic recordings,
including Anderson, who plays key-boards throughout the sets.
Clubland's primary interest in the recordings should be in the giddy
hook-laden "Midnight Dancer" and "Now You See Him, Now You
Don't', which is ripe for remixing.

HEY Akron, keep those e-mails cumming
( raven@rainbow-akron.com )....... Raven