FC Kahuna-Machine Says Yes, the song not the album.

new answers, please don't tell me how electro is this or that either. (mainly cos these aren't electro anyway)

its a great track and actually quite poppy..the whole album itself is probably the dance album of the year for me. i really like the first track 'Fear Of Guitars' with Gruff Rhys and the way it blossoms into a psychedelic flurry of sunshiney pleasantness (tho i've probably ruined it for you with that twattish description)

question tho: if you like electronica, why WOULDNT you love this album? i think its better than 'Come With Us' for example

Well I don't know! You can't exactly say if I like electronic music I will definitely love this. I just have this feeling that FC Kahuna just went into the studio with some new machines and fucked around for a while and came out with some pleasant noises. The track names, I feel don't do anything to rubbish this notion.

but i'd be interested to hear from people who like the latest Chemical Brothers but dont like the FC Kahuna album...i'm wondering if theres actually anyone who loves one but hates the other. i'd find that very strange, not because they're particularly similar (they're not anymore similar than The Strokes and The Hives are perhaps) but because they're both coming from the same direction and they have the same make-up/ideas/philosophy even - two blokes making funky dance tracks with heavy dependency on synths n' sequencers with the occasional chillout track to soundtrack your comedown perhaps. Its weird cos some people like The Hives but not The Strokes but these divides tend to not exist with 'career electronica' acts and their fans.

Bollocks I shouldve started a separate thread for this - sorry Ronan. to backtrack I support your affirming response to 'machine says yes' wholeheartedly ;)

Bah I often think like that too, but it's never that linear really. To me there is a massive difference between the Chems and FC Kahuna if only in terms of ambition. The Chemical Brothers have in the past, and on some recent tracks (ok Denmark)achieved this massive sonic ecstacy. I think their whole sound is just bigger, their best tracks are just epic, if the word epic is even worth anything. FC Kahuna have yet to reach this massive level.

I do agree that there's a good chance a Chems fan will like FC Kahuna, I mean Glitterball just sounds like about 3 Chemical's tracks stuck together. And Mind Set To Cycle isn't too far off either. But having said that there's no guarantee, to me at the moment FC Kahuna are a great little band, and the Chemical Brothers are Godzilla.