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Dangerous Machine

OFF KEY HAT, The - Dangerous Machine
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OFF KEY HAT, The - Dangerous Machine

The OFF KEY HAT

Dangerous Machine

ISM

Cat: ISMCD 003
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Genre: Disco/Nu-Disco
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04:35
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04:24
133
04:38
133
03:56
126
04:02
110
04:54
97
03:54
122
04:25
120
05:25
118
03:39
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Review

What was perhaps most thrilling about the early work of Off Key Hat pairing Leon Mayes and Darren Morris was its strange, oddball nature. Since leaving the now defunct Dissident imprint a few years back, they've progressively moved further towards a brand of oddball synth-pop that references Italo, electrofunk and acid just as much as early 80s new wave and alternative pop. Dangerous Machine, their debut album, completes that journey. With regular vocalist Michelle Manetti in fine voice, it features 10 powerful, leftfield synth-pop moments that veer from the wobbly and wonky ("Night Of The Off Key Hat") and sweet and funky ("Super Sound Single", "Emergency Calling") to the downright dirty (the Goldfrapp-ish "Lairy Lil' Junkie").

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