DON CASH NEW ALBUM - II

from music.guardian.co.uk

(I honestly think this review is bullshit and that the reviewer should consider changin his job to something more simple than advicing on records...your call tho)

Don Cash sees himself as part of a line of innovators that stretches back to Chuck Berry. He calls his music "new wave hip-hop", although, when asked, he often just calls it rock'n'roll; he has also been compared to Prince. You put II on eagerly and expect to be dazzled. But nearly an hour later, you think: whoever Don Cash is, he's having a laugh. The album isn't entirely rubbish - bits of it are almost quite good, largely because they sound like other things that are much better. Disco Wreck (a very now title, very Calvin Harris) sounds a bit like Green Velvet's immense floor-filler La La Land. A nasal tone, no doubt meant to imply that Cash "has the funk", doesn't help his underdeveloped sense of melody. His enthusiastically banal rhyming and Fisher-Price beats just make him sound inept. Anyone for the Terence Trent D'Arby of underground dance?


from Time out London

Toronto DJ-producer Don Cash first caught the attention of Headman, hence this showing on his fêted Relish label. Cash favours a kind of electro/hip hop/ disco-house hybrid that would go down a storm here with the Kitsuné/Ed Banger/ Institubes crowd, although since he likes moodiness and open spaces almost as much as a bangin’ choon, maybe not. Cash himself calls it ‘new wave rap’ – whatever, its mix of Prince, Jacques Lu Cont, Gonzalez and Green Velvet should rock most worlds.


ARTIST : DON CASH
LABEL : FINE
CAT NUM: RRCD 004
GENRE : Electroclash
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01. 2k7 (in the city)
02. i want you
03. disco wreck
04. put you up on it
05. the rose
06. rock the world
07. el amigo
08. super rock
09. don't do anything rash
10. the new adventures
11. metro star
12. hey there
13. candy floss
14. that's hot (bonus track)