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GIGOLO 154CD
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"This is the second album by Crossover on Gigolo and it sounds like they have developed musically to produce this fantastic album. Fantasmo already proved Crossover's ability to create music beyond the expectable; beyond the usual genre definitions. This album is even harder to label. Name It psych-kick because of the 60s psychedelic vocal lines. But although this would give you an idea it wouldn't match all influences. Remember the times when NYC's coolest musicians mingled their new wave minimalist approach with Chris Blackwell's rhythm- crazy Jamaican Island Crew? The times that brought us Tom Tom Club & Talking Heads? Early electro/hip hop (Rammellzee; U.T.F.O.) has obviously influenced some of the beats as well. The things that make this album so unique are the references that go beyond that: Can; Faust on one hand, electronic sound design since the early nineties on the other. This album is not faking any retro 'Zeitgeist'. It's all here and now!"
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GIGOLO 079CD
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"Vanessa Tosti and Mark Ingram are Crossover -- the new cozmik junk band form NYC. Sounds like the Chicks On Speed meeting the B 52's in a smoke filled club in Manhattan. With weird lyrics ('Phostographt' is in fake-German) Crossover invites the listener into their world of fantasy adventure stories. Their demented sequenced sound is fortified with heavy bass-lines, drum machines and an arsenal of synthesizers. Call it Electro-Pop, New Wave, Punk or Disco, whatever Crossover is the max. Vanessa Tosti was born in Rome, Italy and moved to the USA as a child. Daughter of Giacomo Tostsi ('Middle of the Road', RCA 'Gone Gold fame'). End of the 90ies she met Mark Ingram, native Texan and drummer in the unusual boutique 'Smylonylon' in Manhattan and Crossover was born. In July 2001 Crossover played their first show in Europe at the famous Gigolo-Loveparade-Party at WMF Club in Berlin."
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