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A Courreges clad model from the 60s graces the cover indicating what awaits inside: fashionably chic, hipster cool tracks with an incredible array of samples culled from 60s music and movies like James Coburn's OUR MAN FLINT(PLEASURE UNIT)which is also one of the inspirations for Mike Myers' AUSTIN POWERS movies and Peter Sellers THE PARTY(MR HRUNDI'S HOLIDAY)which in my opinion is one of the funniest movies ever made. Is that a sample of Mancini's BABY ELEPHANT WALK I hear in there. Check out Dmitri From Paris, Towa Tei or Tipsy for something like that. to pick up this fantastically groovy CD. However, it's great party music. I swear some of the samples are straight from my father's jazz record collection. Nothing serious, nothing new but a load of fun alone or with a group of your most freaked out wacky friends.
The breaks are at times sloppy or jarring but the overall effect is a fantastic soundscape like the soundtrack to a futuristic 60s film. Overall, this CD isn't anything new or exciting. Yummy. I'M GOING TO SHOCK YOU DADDY conjures up images of mini skirt clad girls go-go dancing on tables in smoky nightclubs. PLEASURE UNIT is also a fun little dance track with a spoken break in the middle: a luscious Swedish girl repeating "I AM NOT A PLEASURE UNIT" over and over.
If Dmitri from Paris and Lady Miss Kier of Dee-Lite had a child, Ursula 1000 would be it. Who knows but the outcome is scrumptious. THE SHAKE starts off with a nice lesiurely beat layered with sampled keyboards that then veer off into some strange spacy jazz universe. The tracks are held together by lazy, sometimes jumping house beats. It'S definitely a song that you cannot sit still to.
Be sure to sample all of the songs first to make sure it suites your taste. Not that I don't like that some of the time, but here it's annoying for some reason.it's not AWFUL, but not what I was expecting. I bought this CD based on a mix of mr. hrundi's holiday and was expecting something more "contemporary." Some of the tracks are good, but most of them consist of retro 60s noise.
However, the pop genius behind this approach only produces sporadically. Ursula 1000 is lousy with potential, a DJ with his own sound, and that's enough to make the disc's shortcomings forgivable. Miami DJ Ursula 1000 perfectly fits the Eighteenth Street Lounge mold. The slick buzz of "Mambo 1000" and "Hip Length" dissipates into pointless groove exercises like "Funky Bikini" and "Pleasure Unit." But, so what. Those looking for a different kind of big beat--one that doesn't try to bite off of Fatboy Slim's or The Chemical Brothers' styles--will get the most out of this one. But where artists like ESL's founders Thievery Corporation are known for their sonic subtlety, Ursula 1000 puts his blissful, body-rocking beats right your face. The end result is a pastiche of mambo cut-ups, spy flick guitar riffs and mod swagger over a big beat foundation--imagine if Dmitri from Paris collaborated with Fatboy Slim.
You've got to try this. From electronic mambo to dreamy instrumentals - and all with pounding drumbeat. If you don't like it, a friend will. Fantastic drums, basslines. Groovy tunes.
I'm really looking forward in getting more of this mixture of funky breaking house, latin breakbeat, hippop or whatever we should call this great stuff. I never expected to get such an innovative, groovy, modern, relaxing and dancable sound coming from this city. I bought this cd in London and first i thought that this is the newest London sound from a fresh London underground label. To see that it came from Washington DC was really surprising.
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