OK Cowboy [Import]

1. Polkamatic

2. Poney, Pt. 1

3. My Friend Dario

4. Wooo

5. Rock 01

6. Past

7. No Fun

8. Poney, Pt. 2

9. Repair Machines

10. Newman

11. Trahison

12. U and L

13. Valletta Fanfares

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
The Outstanding Debut from French DJ Pascal Arbez was Eagerly Awaited by Fans of his "Poney EP" (Parts One and 2) and "la Rock 01". What They Found was a Man who Presents Strikingly Original Music that Demands to Be Experienced. His Sound Fuses Metal, Electronic, Melody, Dance, Pop...and He Does it all with Artificial Instruments...and In a Way You've Never Heard Before. Pascal was One of the Last Artists to Be Commissioned to Do a John Peel Radio Session, as Peel Felt Very Strongly About Him. Or Just Listen to What Nme Said: "The Sheer Pummelling Euphoria Will Pin You to Your Seat with Pleasure". Or Try the Wire: "Absolutely Enormous..has All the Hallmarks of Maximalist Dance Music"!

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Average customer rating:

outstanding release

Great New Electro!

Electro at it's best

OK Cowboy
Vitalic
Manufacturer: Uncivilized World
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000CR79DM
Release Date: 2006-02-21

Tracks:

Polkamatic
Poney Part 1
My Friend Dario
Wooo
La Rock Us
The Past
No Fan
Poney Part 2
Repair Machines
New Man
Trahion
U And I
Valletta Fanfares

Customer Reviews:

outstanding release.......2006-11-16

2006 is proving to be "the year" for techno/electronica - you just can't find a more exciting genre right now for innovative pop music. "OK Cowboy" definitely ranks with other great disks this year from The Knife, Brazilian Girls, LCD Soundsystem, Basement Jaxx, and more. The music is unbelievably exciting - Vitalic takes "traditional" club music conventions - strong driving beats, good steady synth lines, excellent builds and fantastic breaks - and turns them on their heads. Like much of the great dance music this year, this is very visually stimulating stuff as well - you can't help but let your mind wander through strange landscapes as you listen. And the few vocals on this record are eerily abstacted - think Benny Benasi's synthesized voices run through The Knife's voice processors almost to the point of unintelligibility. As songs start, you're not sure what strange territory you're heading into - by the time the beats emerge, you can't help but groove to this incredibly fierce music. It's a shame the clubs I go to in San Diego and Chicago haven't caught on to the new crop of dance tracks this year - "Poney, Pt. 1," "My Friend Dario," "Newman," "Trahison," and "Valetta Fanfares" would burn up the dancefloor.

Great New Electro!.......2006-03-21

Vitalic is one of many great new artists of Electronica, he's French with the name Pascal Arbez and just like Air, Cassius and Daft Punk and this is his first album. It was already released in Europe in early 2005 but now it also comes to the states. I'd say his music is quite fammiliar to Daft Punk, most of the songs here are indeed electronic and many are uptempo, a great mix of electronica, techno, rock and catchy old school Italo Disco. It feautures the hit "My Friend Dario" but also several other could be hit singles. It's not that there are plenty of near great Electro acts around, but this really caught my attention and is a fresh new artist with original sound and fascinating ideas. Arbez doesn't take anything too seriously and mixes genres from left to right, infact he invented a story of being a Ukrainian trubcka player and occasional gigolo from a family of sea otter fur traders, jokes aside the music still sound pretty much French, but kudos to his sense of humour. For the major part this album is great and apart from the likes of Daft Punk, Mylo and Basement Jaxx you get the feeling that all of the songs of this album are part of a concept. This is good, but it does get a little repetitive at times considering that most songs are agressive uptempo songs with heavy synthesizers and often rock influenced sound like "Pony" and "My Fiend Dario" 2 of the best songs of the album actually. "Newman" sounds exactly like Daft Punk for example, "U and I" like Air, "No Fun" like Basement Jaxx but songs like "The Past" and "Trahison" does show some softer sides of Vitalic. "Valetta Fanfares" is odd, it sounds like a parade with drums and almost no electro sound at all. Needless to say, if you want some new electronica music to your collection, check this out. Vitalic is a fresh new name and this album is a great addition to your collection.

Electro at it's best.......2006-02-22

very awesome debut. vitalic is by far one of my favorite electro artists and this album can prove why. you can put this cd at a party and just press play and let the album run. i've heard many of these songs mixed at live sets as well including "LA Rock 01", "Poney, Pt1", "My Friend Dario", "No Fun", and "Newman". Totally worth the purchase.

Average customer rating:

French Electro Perfection.....
I have heard this sound before
The French have got this electronic-techno-thing down
This album will use your ears for its own pleasure
Wow Cowboy!

OK Cowboy
Vitalic
Manufacturer: Play It Again Sam UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-04-26

Tracks:

Polkamatic
Poney, Pt. 1
My Friend Dario
Wooo
Rock 01
Past
No Fun
Poney, Pt. 2
Repair Machines
Newman
Trahison
U and I
Valletta Fanfares

Album Details

The Outstanding Debut from French DJ Pascal Arbez was Eagerly Awaited by Fans of his "Poney EP" (Parts One and 2) and "la Rock 01". What They Found was a Man who Presents Strikingly Original Music that Demands to Be Experienced. His Sound Fuses Metal, Electronic, Melody, Dance, Pop...and He Does it all with Artificial Instruments...and In a Way You've Never Heard Before. Pascal was One of the Last Artists to Be Commissioned to Do a John Peel Radio Session, as Peel Felt Very Strongly About Him. Or Just Listen to What Nme Said: "The Sheer Pummelling Euphoria Will Pin You to Your Seat with Pleasure". Or Try the Wire: "Absolutely Enormous..has All the Hallmarks of Maximalist Dance Music"!

Customer Reviews:

French Electro Perfection............2006-02-15

Here's an amazing electronic album that touches many subgenres and it touches excellently. My favorite track off of OK Cowboy is My Friend Dario. It totally feels like you are racing a car until the final moment when you crash. The stop start stop start is fully apparent in this track. It's perfect for driving but just don't actually cause an accident or anything while you are listening and driving.

Another great track off of OK Cowboy is Poney Part 1. It's an energetic, bruising electro cruncher and I'm sure you've heard this track before as it was licensed to many compilations and was a pretty big hit in the underground club world and was easily labeled "Electroclash" back when it had it's day. This along with Poney Part 2 and La Rock 01 are taken from the Pney EP.

There's actually nothing really wrong with this album. At times it feels and sounds like Daft Punk. As a matter of fact this is what Daft Punk should have released rather than Human After All but hey there wouldn't be a Vitalic would there if DF put out this album?? Anyway it's a great album if you haven't checked it out yet.

SJ
www.beatzblog.com

I have heard this sound before.......2006-02-05

Also I do love this album and gave it 5 stars, but I have heard most of this sound before. A very similiar music in style and power was produced a few years ago by another French man. Laurent Garnier's album ( the only one I know) "Unreasonable Behaviour" sounds so alike that I wonder was Vitalic actually influenced by him.I am actually amazed that nobody has made that connection yet.Until know Laurent Garnier was one of my most liked performers in that style of music, now I have to add Vitalic to that short list.

The French have got this electronic-techno-thing down.......2005-12-31

As many of the other reviewers have noted, if you liked Daft Punk's "Human After All" you're going to love this. This really is the epitome of what, to me, electronica should sound like. It's fast paced, non-stop, energetic and poppy. While bits and pieces of it get kind of sketchy, this album leaves you wanting more than the 13 tracks on here. Track 6, "The Past" is a hard-pounding bass adventure. It is very reminiscent of Phillip Glass' work on the "Qatsi" series with Godfrey Reggio. "La Rock 01" is one of the better known tracks off this album, and for good reason. It ties together everything that one can love about techno. The trippy loops, the bass line pumping, the mid coming up. It is a one song introduction to all things electronic. Overall, "OK Cowboy" is by far one of the better pieces of techno that I have heard in a long while. Seriously. If you even just liked Daft Punk, you'll love Vitalic.

This album will use your ears for its own pleasure.......2005-12-18

Seriously, just listen to this album. Parts of it, there just isn't any room to breathe. You're surrounded by noises pulsing, pounding, and raining down from every corner. If they catch you looking, count yourself lucky to get off with a sneer. And no matter what, on your first listen La Rock is going to hunt you down, punch you in the gut, and spit in your eye. You're going to wake up sore two days later, your hair full of glass shards and sand; your mind ginger, wincing when it touches shakily on those half-remembered dreams.

Next thing you know, you'll find yourself forcing your clean-cut friends to listen to every sordid twist, to how you loved every moment of it. You're confused and you need some advice. But don't kid yourself, you watch--they're going to nervously laugh their way out of the conversation, and that'll be the last time that anybody in town will talk to you, and not about you. Because word is going to spread, and nobody--not your parents, not your lover, not even your dog--is going to look at you the way they used to ever again.

If you catch them looking at you at all.

(In all seriousness, about La Rock: The synths in that song have this one moment that is built up to... oh, man, it's like watching your first girlfriend undress... it's like the dawning of the sun.)

(Just listen to it.)

Wow Cowboy!.......2005-12-13

I ran across this album on one of those "hipster" websites best albums of the year lists, and when they said that "ok cowboy" was what daft punk's "human after all" should have been, my interest was sparked. As far as the daft punk comparision, this album BLOWS ANYTHING they have ever done out of the water. "Ok Cowboy" is everything electronic should be, freaky, dirty, sexy, aggressive and keeping a good beat always. Here is just a description of the first three, stellar songs:

Intro - Polkamatic = oh my freaking god, this is one of most freaky things I have ever heard, its like music the Goddess Bunny would dance to. But none the less, I love it.

My Friend Dario - this song has caught a little buzz, has a weird lady talking about whatelse "my friend dario", then goes into pulsating electronica. a little splash of nin.

Poney Party 1 - another freaky ass song. if you are familiar with Visage, this kinda has that "fade to grey" vibe going for it, with some creepy dude singing, but again the music is nocturnal bliss.

trust me, this is an incredible album. so original. i heard this guy makes his music with no instruments or something. who knows. who knows what the hell is going on in vitalic's head?