0003. Deee-Lite
World Clique

Okay, so what do you get if you take one random russian, an ex-fashion designer and throw in a japanese DJ? The answer is Deee-Lite and despite what your first thought is it's not that great.

I had real high expectations when I threw this string of tracks on - I mean who hasn't heard Groove Is In The Heart? And since the intro-song Deee-Lite Theme kinda (which isn't on the orignal release) worked I felt it might be a total winner after all.

Then my expectations were crushed quite harshly as the second song presented itself with a house-piano.

I know that Deee-Lite were described as a house-influenced group, but this is just too damn much.
In other words World Clique didn't contain the metafunky and sampling-crazy band I expected, but just some very ordinary, run-of-the-mill 90's house.

Unbearably boring.

My biggest question is how the hell the managed to get Bootsy and Q-tip on a track when all the other material sound like it does. When Groove Is In The Heart rolls in it's on a whole other level: more instruments, polyrhythmia - Bootsy's bass of course - and it feels amazingly malplaced. A totally different songstructure than almost anything on the album. Maybe it's a contact-high, but the following track, Who Was That, is also kind of decent, but after that it's back to the abyss named "house".

And it's just the kind of house I despise:
• a goddamned house-piano appearing from nowhere
• long instrumental segments for no reason
• aaand lyrics about love - everything's in love, everyone has love inside, you kan find love anywhere, on it goes

This isn't an album for the most important records. A single or possibly an EP, but the whole album?
Fuck no.
Shithouse.