Artist: Boom Boom Satellites
Album: Full Of Elevating Pleasures
Label: Tofu Records/ Sony
Tracks: 12
Review By: Ye Ole Jacob

Rockers and Ravers have a lot in common. They both have a heart and a brain and blood that flows through their veins. But when you start to talk about music taste rockers will be talking about anyone from The Who to The Blood Brothers. Ravers, on the other hand, will be lauding DJ whoever’s latest endeavor. It’s rather like speaking different languages. Boom Boom Satellites are Japanese and may, perhaps, act as a bridge between Rocker and Raver.

“Full Of Elevating Pleasures” has both a rock face and a techno face. One minute you listen and you could swear techno is the furthest thing on their mind. Then it all breaks loose in all of it’s electronic glory. The rock elements never quite loose the slick touch of electronica while the techno never shakes the shadows of electric guitars. It is all rather seamlessly integrated, thus the dance between genres is never distracting or awkward.

The weakest element to the album is probably the vocals, which tend to be fairly standard of stereotypical mainstream techno. Lines sung in almost a chanted way, while the echo spins in and out of the beats. The vocals could exist to drive the music to some pretty intense moments, but instead they seem only there to add a bit of the human touch that most electronic music lacks. They just support what is already going on without becoming what is going on.

Boom Boom Satellites will probably appeal most to Ravers, but with the current fascination with rock bands adding dance elements Boom Boom Satellites could be the band to unite the two groups.