Product Details
Artist : Bran Van 3000
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724381023020
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2001-06-14
UPC : 724381023020
ASIN : B00005ATGJ
Track Listings for
Disc-1
1. Astounded
2. Loop Me
3. Montreal
4. BV3
5. Discosis
6. Go Shoppin'
7. More Shopping
8. Answer
9. Jean Leloup's Dirty Talk
10. Loaded
11. Speed
12. Predictable
13. Senegal
14. Dare I Say
15. Stepchild
16. Love Cliché
17. Rock Star
18. Astounded (Remix)
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Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.co.uk
Discosis, the follow-up to Bran Van's 1998 debut (which featured the slow-burning summer hit "Drinking in LA"), is another ambitious mix of beats and space-age pop. The stand-out track is the opener, "Astounded", which came about when main Bran-man James Di Salvio approached Curtis Mayfield, shortly before his death. Too ill to perform, Mayfield offered Di Salvio use of his archive, and the latter sampled an unused vocal to create this large, luscious and deeply moving tribute to a soul hero. For the rest, Di Salvio has recorded satirical tales of urban loving and living with some classy collaborations--Momus, for instance, doing an admirable Jacques Brel impression on "More Shopping"; Big Daddy Kane playing blaxploitation king on "Loaded"; and Youssou N'Dour singing with his customary soaring lilt on "Senegal". --Lucy O'Brien
Amazon.ca
L'étape du deuxième album est souvent difficile pour les groupes qui ont obtenu du succès avec leur premier essai – surtout après avoir pondu un disque aussi essentiel que Glee. La marche était donc particulièrement haute pour Bran Van 3000. Malgré les attentes démesurées, le collectif montréalais, dirigé par l'homme-orchestre James Di Salvio, a bien accompli sa mission, même si l'effet de surprise s'est quelque peu estompé.
Avec une liste impressionnante d'invités (comprenant Youssou N'Dour, Dimitri from Paris, feu Curtis Mayfield, Momus, Big Daddy Kane) et une réalisation assurée par le grand Ric Ocasek (ex-chanteur des Cars), BV3 livre un produit encore et toujours bordélique, mais vraiment rafraîchissant. Bien qu'il manque à Discosis l'étincelle qui a fait le charme de Glee, il ne faudrait pas bouder son plaisir devant ce florilège de pièces bourrées de flashs amusants. Les rythmes latins d'"Astounded", les divagations de Jean Leloup, le charme un peu suranné de "Love cliché" : tous les ingrédients sont réunis pour que l'auditeur passe un très bon moment. --Frédéric Boudreault
Chronique Amazon.fr
Les loufdingues canadiens reviennent sur terre avec un album qui risque malheureusement de tomber aux oubliettes. Si leur premier album, mix foutraque de soul, dance, hip-hop et pop nous laissait penser que l'avenir était à eux, cette galette, un peu fade annonce plutôt la fin du buzz. Poppy et moins barrés, les Bran Van 3000 perdent de leur inventivité et deviennent un groupe comme les autres. À noter le dernier enregistrement de Curtis Mayfield quelques semaines avant sa mort. Symbolique ? --Jean-Baptiste Bussière
Customer Reviews
are you a tramp like that? are you born to run? (2002-06-06)  Bran Van 3000's 1998 album Glee was hailed by many to be a great pastiche of genres, and I'll give it that. There are a lot of different sounds piled in there, but the problem I had was that it felt like it was darker than it should have been. It's hard to explain it, but it sounded like there was a happy album wanting to get out there, but the band was feeling too bitter to let it fly, and there's a number of pointless interludes and boring songs thrown in there. Discosis, I was pleasantly surprised to hear, lets everything go. The six-minute opener dispelled any fears I had of more cumbersome rock and rapping. The Bran Van guys found some old vocal track that Curtis Mayfield recorded, but never used, and somehow got the rights to use it in their own song. So they made a whole song for the Curtis track! The music is just what you would expect when you think of the word "discosis." It's really dancey, has dramatic strings segments, is slickly produced, and it sounds like it's basically swirling all around you. The Bran Van girls is even back Curtis up on the chorus, "All I wanna do is love you / I just wanna take you there." And no less than four minutes into it, what sounds like a couple of Cuban guys take over the vocal duties in their own language, while someone goes absolutely wild on a flute solo. This is the song for the your party mix. Although their first album sounded unbalanced at times, this one bearly misses a beat. The songs are packed together and even though their throw the genres around, the songs all have a similar type of sound to them. Also, as with the first album, they recycle vocal tracks using them on more than one track. So we actually get a preview of "Senegal" in "Montreal" and a reprise of the Cuban singers in "Discosis." It's a really effective way of making the album more cohesive. Oh, and if you noticed, there's a whole slew of special guests brimming with indie credentials. Bran Van 3000 has always been more like a collective than a band with people coming and going as they please, so this all fits in fine. Loop Me" is a sultry space-accented lounge kind of song, although I think it goes without saying that anything the Bran Van girls sing turns out sultry. Their voices are perfectly fit for an album like this, with of its tongue-in-cheek disco stylings. The "Loaded" and "Speed" combination is another in the natural progression of things idea. "Loaded" is sung by the girls and is basically about partying and drinking a lot. "Speed" is like the antithesis, a beautiful acoustic-turned-rock-turned-rap song from the same girl, except it looks like she needs someone to put some excitement in her life. ("So hold on / Take me with you! / Hold on / My soul is on!") She wants to ride someone's motorbike, and this other guy starts rapping and it turns into a sort of quasi-conversation. As the song moves along, the music seems to gradually build and speed up until at the end the guy is yelling "New Jersey girl! / We gonna ride around! / New Jersey girl / New Jersey sun!" It's really just a wonderful song. Globe-hopping, genre-plundering, tongue-in-cheek and bringing it all back to the nightclub. It doesn't get any more cosmopolitan than Bran Van. Oh, yeah, and what's most amazing: They're Canadian.
Dissapointing (2002-04-10)  Its weird to see how after such an amazing and weird project like Glee, BV3000 comes out and does a pop/disco/reggae cd with no experimental tendencies whatsoever. This CD redefines BV3k's style under a "popish" label. IT is not that they did pop songs, but that they worked and reworked and used the same technique in most of their songs, which are, in some sort and to a great extent, a derivation of "everywhere" from their first album. Apart from that they have managed to distinguish themselves in an area that human kind has no knowledge of. So this record could be put in the section of i dont know what kind of music this is beacause it has too many styles BV3k style. That is what BV3000 is about. About breaking barriers and having no classification, but in my opinion they could have accomplished that without tryng to do more commercial stuff. Maybe if they had not collaborated with that many people they wouldnt have been influenced to make such a wacky yet flawed record.In my opinion, my main frontman has gotten hooked on his own technique of weirdness... he needs to layoff the mic, and stop listening to music for a while. Clear out his head...If the band tries to do something not so bv3k next time, and try something new and keep it constant for a record, the following album will kick rears for these are talented and creative people...
a juicy curl set goes well with discosis (2002-03-29) With an album as scattered as glee coming from apparently more of an unformed collective than a solid group I was expecting a big sophomore slump in discosis. I was too curious to resist the purchase and the album has been playing constantly since. The Curtis Mayfield track is a fantastic song and I wish had been more of a hit, the sexy crooning that is not afraid to be fancy is such a nice change of pace from all the soundalike gutteral voice rock bands howling around. Also it sets a nice tone that the rest of the album holds up except for one or two tracks (I am thinking "The answer" and "loaded" specifically) Overall this album is not a simple rehash of glee material, there are certainly more real songs here, and some stunning moments in "More Shopping" & "montreal" which ends in a chant that loops back again later in the album. Very impressive -
buy glee and save your money on this one (2002-01-11)  The stupid club beats get annoying, but i suppose that's what they were trying to get across.....their first album was great, but the only song i care for on this is 'rock star' all in all it doesnt seem as diverse as the first one
BV3 evolution does not disappoint (2001-11-22)  A welcome relief for those of us who wondered where BV3 would go after GLEE. This one will not disappoint. On first listen the songs are less approachable than the feel good tunes from the first albumn. And while I won't be giving this one away to all my friends and family it will certainly become one of the treasures in my collection.
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