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		Let's say you've just received a bad knock on the head. Not fatal bad, but bad enough to knock you out for a while, and when you wake up you find yourself in a weird retrofuturistic European city drawn by a Manga animator on crack. And blaring from every passing car is the music of Arling and Cameron. These two Dutchmen pair the frenetic energy of drum'n'bass with the eccentricity of Japanese bubblegum/Shibuya-Kei pop, and top the lot with a healthy dollop of camp. This approach spawns the technoDisney goofiness of "We Love Dancing", the semi- fetishistic bossa-nova of "Speeding Down the Highway", the tongue-in-cheek vocorder new-wave action of "We Love To Rock" and the Sigue Sigue Sputnik-does-porn antics of "Loveshot". In other words, you can't be entirely certain what you're going to get next, other than another entertaining surprise. You'll listen to All-In over and over again because it's fun -- there's no intellectual message, no political agenda, just brightly hued, good-natured, samplerific entertainment. In fact, going from Arling & Cameron back to a diet of angsty rock music is just like returning to Kansas from Oz -- suddenly, everything seems colorless by comparison.
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Arling & Cameron All-In Emperor Norton CD
		Review by George Zahora

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