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Music Compilations Hexstatic: Pick 'n' Mix (Sanctuary) 
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| Hexstatic: Pick 'n' Mix (Sanctuary) |
| By Jonathan Waterlow | |
Monday, 24 April 2006 Description:Hexstatic have long pushed the boundaries of audio/visual entertainment; going for more than ten years they’ve not only helped to develop DVD players but in 2004 released the charmingly insane Master Views album which came replete with a pair of 3D glasses. Eclectic is only half-way to understanding what these guys are all about… Which means? What we have here is basically a prolonged DJ set mixing seamlessly from track to track, loitering around funk for most of the time with entertaining diversions into a jacked-up Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’ or a comic interlude of Dick Emery telling us yet again that ‘You are awful… but I like you’. How many good tracks? A good handful, although the best moments are ironically the mixing between tracks where Hexstatic really show their skills. Still, Positive Force’s ‘We Got the Funk’ and Rareforce’s ‘Rip Off’ provide cool Austin Powers style diversions into a psychedelic past. And the worst? Why begin an album with Billy Connolly about to tell a story which in fact turns out to be the album itself? If ever there was a way to annoy the listener Hexstatic have found it – as the album progresses so too does the creeping certainty that Connolly’s story would have been a lot more fun. Biggest disappointment? If you’re a fan of this kind of diverse mix-up of an album then you’ll probably have come across the tongue-in-cheek mastery of the genre peddled by DJ Yoda, featuring everything from Star Wars skits to James Brown. Hexstatic just don’t have a sense of irony and consequently by the time they reel out the worst and last tune – ‘Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)’ – you’ve completely lost interest. Verdict: A bit of a mess all in all; there are brief moments of success which are then brutally stamped down by an entirely uninteresting tune or the suspicion that irony or cleverness has been aimed at and missed by a great number of miles. This is a niche genre and as such has to be done brilliantly to succeed; without a light show or a gimmick this one slumps like an unwilling parent watching a school play. (2/5) |
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