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Phonat
Phonat
Genre: Dance & Electronic

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. A Warm Welcome
2. Get Down My Dirty Street
3. Set Me Free
4. Ghetto Burnin'
5. Love Hits The Fan
6. Ho Visto Un Quadro Verde
7. It's For You
8. Learn To Recycle
9. The Big Deal
10. Zombie Army
11. Bad Boy
12. London

CD Details

All Artists: Phonat
Title: Phonat
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Release Date: 10/6/2009
Album Type: Import
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
Other Editions: Phonat
UPC: 5037300760858

Synopsis

Album Description

2009 album from the Electronic act. Originally from Florence, Italy, Phonat (AKA Michele Balduzzi) was first spotted by MofoHifi Records on MySpace and they were so impressed with the 21 year old that the loving label bosses persuaded him to leave his parents' idyllic country farm in Florence and move to a bed sit in Canning Town. Armed only with a five-year-old computer and an electric guitar Phonat dutifully relocated to London in late 2007 and the rest, as they say, is history. Drawing on every vein of Dance music, from Hip Hop to House, Garage to Breaks, Phonat's expert use of a vocal hook is also evident, most noticeably on the Yolanda vocalled 'Ghetto Burning' and the single 'Set Me Free', where classic '80s style Rock vocals sit atop a stacatto-synthed stomper.

CD Reviews

As Good As It Gets

Croc O'Dile | California | 02/10/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Imagine that a super-intelligent robot was created to make dance music with all the most cutting-edge technology. Now imagine that somehow it developed a soul, and a love of 80's synthpop and 70's rock and funk, but it had a little glitch in it's circuitry which found it's way into the music it created, but always keeping perfect rhythm, even when freaking out.

No, I'm not talking about Daft Punk. This is like supercharged, less self-indulgant Daft Punk with a bad case of ADD.

No, this robot is named Phonat, and he's put out an album full of smoking hot electro-dance-rock-glitch-funk, chock full of samples thrown into a blender that someone forgot to put the lid on before they turned it on high and hooked it up to a racing engine.

Okay, sorry, it's just hard to properly describe this music. If you like tight, razor-sharp and precision-placed edits, hard-hitting funk horns and guitars, synths so fat they're morbidly obese. More hooks than the torture devices in Hellraiser, gritty yet smooth at the same time.

Standouts are the aggressive rocker Ghetto Burnin, the dreamy but insistent Set Me Free and the can-you-top-this dance history lesson of Learn To Recycle. But that's almost unfair, most every track is great.

The bar hasn't just been raised, it's been set on fire."