Diva X Machina 2 Music Cd

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Diva X Machina 2      Artist : Various Artists      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $18.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2007-07-16      Studio : COP International      Label : COP International      Avg. Customer Rating : (2 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Diva X Machina 2      Dark dance music done Diva style      Rating:      Diva X Machina has style and is outstandingly hip to listen to. The various well-put industrial beats, and the underground style songs createred by these passionate fems of genre from the undergound scene hits a homerun in this CD. My preference for pleasurable, unconventional music was found in this cult type compilation.     Customer Reviews for Diva X Machina 2 Cd      Good to drive to.      Rating:      Decent stuff! Some soft spots I could do without, Battery in particular aren't as sharp as they used to be, and I'd prefer more Sunshine Blind on this one (just personal favorites-- liked Vol. 1 better). Industrial is great to drive, type, vacuum, chop celery, or pop bubblewrap to. And most of these bands avoid the industrial sound-cliches that have started to send me running for Johnny Cash albums. Sure, even the title admits to celebrating the femaleness thing deliberately, but wouldn't life be nicer if people could hear music without attaching breasts or balls to it? Girl music automatically gets such condescending treatment. Christ, listen to that reviewer guy above-- getting oh-so-naughty in a way he'd never dare describe, say, a Rammstein album, and insulting every artist here in the process: "...attempts to push the male-dominated genre of industrial against a wall, whisper sweet nothings in its ear, and then whip, spank, and bite it until it whimpers for mercy--and begs for more." Oh, aren't the little girlies just so CUTE when they try to do boy-music! Look, she thinks she's people! Snap out of it is all I have to say, Steve. It's not a bloody gimmick, it's 50% of the human race. Editorial Reviews for Diva X Machina 2 Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Sisters are doing it for themselves on Diva X Machina 2, the COP International label's second compilation of female-fronted industrial-dance bands. Much like the first disc, this one attempts to push the male-dominated genre of industrial against a wall, whisper sweet nothings in its ear, and then whip, spank, and bite it until it whimpers for mercy--and begs for more. Actually, while a good deal of the material here could loosely be called "fetish music," there's too much quality and variety to easily pigeonhole the disc: 162's "Darkness," a Die Form-like electro track with operatic vocals; Magenta's beautifully melancholy "One Mind"; the scorching Eros of Luxt's "Spite" and Evulva's "Dive"; and the otherworldly landscape of Kirlian Camera's "Your Face in the Sun." There are some duds (the KMFDM-meets-Red Hot Chili Peppers silliness of Hanzel & Gretyl's "Pleiadian Agenda," the '80s-metal-guitar stylings of Tapping the Vein's "Butterfly"), but fortunately they don't kill the mood. So light those candles, slip on that latex, and give this disc a listen: anger, eroticism, sarcasm, and intelligence have never hurt so good. --Steve Landau