Cargo Records - Catalog

Follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2003 release "A Touch Of Class Sucks!" from the NY based production duo A TOUCH OF CLASS (ATOC), featuring a collection of their latest remixes and productions of bands such as THE GOSSIP, LE TIGRE, SCISSOR SISTERS, SERVICES, ERASURE and other. With a no-holds-barred anything goes approach this retrospective offers a variety of cutting edge dance music, starting on a dub-disco tip and ending in distorted dance floor territory. "A Touch Of Class Sucks!", the first collection of productions and mixes turned out to be quite visionary for it's time, containing various musical styles from Post-Punk to Electro and Disco. It proved that ATOC foresaw the accelerated emergence of these consecutive retro styles by ironically denouncing them before they even had established themselves. Visionary also by including unknown newcomers such as SCISSOR SISTERS as well as using avant-garde production techniques such as "Mashups" with a genre defying stance. "A Touch Of Class Still Sucks!" is keeping that same uncompromising attitude, still defying specific genre and not buying into any one hype of the moment. Starting off with THE GOSSIP's "Listen Up", ATOC add their signature bells and whistles and attention to detail while extending the original to over twice its length, taking it into dance-floor direction without sacrificing any of it's original rock bite. On LE TIGRE's "After Dark" they nonchalantly incorporate a different chord progression, both enhancing the chorus and blurring the lines between electro, disco and rock even further. In SCISSOR SISTERS' "Filthy/Gorgeous" they add the filth that was so desperately missing in the original, making this a drunken party favorite. On the other hand "Ultramodern" by THE OTHERS that they co-wrote and produced is an old school hip-hop meets grimecore affair. Their own "I Feel Upside Down" demonstrates with compelling studio wizardry their use of electronics combined with live instrumentation. WALDORF, known for their extravagant lyrics, use the 19th century classic "Erl King" from J. W. Goethe for a prog-rock opera epic. On SERVICES' "Element Of Danger", distorted search-and-destroy synthesizers mark the new style of Electro, or Electro-metal, so to say. ERASURE's "Don't Say You Love Me" increases this to rave levels for maximum effect.