"I Can't Live Without My Radio". Not The Track By L L Cool Jay, But The Compilation By Dj Morpheus.

An occasionally darker matter than Andrew Weatherall's likeminded mix of post-punk and early industrial, Nine O'Clock Drop, I Can't Live Without My Radio could be referred to as Nine O'Clock Drop Dead. Granted, DJ Morpheus didn't put this together for Cleopatra, the likes of Medium Medium and Heaven 17 sound excited about being alive, and there's a reasonable amount of variety considering the aesthetic focus. Jeff and Jane Hudson's "Los Alamos" and the Residents' "Kaw-Liga" begin the set with a sinister pulse, while Virgin Prunes' "Pagan Love Song" opens it up with hedonist rampage, which only comes to a grinding halt with the screech of Medium Medium's punk-funk "Hungry, So Angry." Just as importantly, the transitions aren't harsh. (The disc is technically, albeit barely, mixed for added sense of continuity.) If you've been following DJ Morpheus since his series of Freezone mixes, this should be a welcomed change of pace; most of the songs in the mix were released while he was known as one of the members of Israeli post-punks Minimal Compact, and it's apparent that he's thrilled to revisit his past. As he points out in his liner notes, several of the songs are politically charged and translate (depressingly enough) to 2005 — Heaven 17's "We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang," Time Zone's "World Destruction," and Love and Rockets' "Ball of Confusion" in particular. (By AMG)

A trend-setting mix CD from the founder of Minimal Compact, SSR Records and the legendary Freeform parties and mix CDs: DJ Morpheus. He regularly spins at the top clubs all over the world, from Beijing to Bangkok, he's organized the music for Jean-Paul Gaultier, Giorgio Armani and Mercedez Benz. Here Morpheus picks his favorite industrial new wave, body music and synth pop and lines them up like so many dominos. This music shaped the aesthetics of new pioneers like DJ Hell, Tiefschwarz, Block Strobe and Alter Ego. In the compiler's own words, this cute little number was inspired by the same sort of "do-it-yourself ethics, ruff energy and attitude that punk and new wave's explosions brought about." Contrary to the majority of people, Morpheus believes the '80s were a period of exciting music that has been influencial to present-day productions, be it in rock and dance or the pop scene. The accent on I Can't Live... is on the funk and rock element. A def selection and a deft sequence. The next sound, and you can here it now. Artists include: Jeff and Jane Hudson, The Residents, Virgin Prunes, Medium Medium, Love & Rockets, Heaven 17, Shriekback, That Petrol Emotion, Head, World Domination Enterprises, Timezone (feat. John Lydon & Afrika Bambaataa), Age of Chance, The Thrill Kill Kult, Taboo, 400 Blows vs. 23 Skidoo, and Einsturzende Neubauten.

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