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Although the snooty house music fans declare it a garish glop of slick pop goo with maybe just one small drop of clever, Duck Sauce (featuring superstar DJs Armand Van Helden and A-Trak banging the beats together) released a seriously subversive slab of music with their infectious, Boney M.-sampling track "Barbara Streisand." Veteran DJ prankster Green Velvet must have gone greener with envy once the Lima, Ohio kids on the network television show Glee performed the cut, as if "Pump Up the Volume" and "James Brown Is Dead"-styled numbers were perfect for show choir. In other words, it is best to come at the supergroup's debut album as tongue-in-cheek prime-time fluff that's only "deep" when it comes to "concept." Even then, the concept is merely to be deviant and delicious in equal measure, and on that front Quack wins, from its Dazz Band-on-disco-steroids opener "Chariots of the Gods" to the Anton LaVey-with-duck-bill artwork that graces the album's back cover. Throwing a duck bill on the greatest Satanist known to man is the kind of sharp and short humor that's found here, as skits and audio montages (house music segues into norteño music, and other nonsense) break up a solid set of slick bangers, including the infectious "Barbara Streisand" and its Village People-ish follow-up, "Radio Stereo." Those familiar with the gold chains and goofball-filled albums of Armand will find Quack's layout quite like his Killing Puritans or Nympho efforts, but A-Trak is no silent partner, and it would be easy to chalk all the Kavinsky-esque synth lines and stuttering electro up to him. Get hip or get irked because either reaction is worthy of this loud, smart-ass joke put on loop, but not since Disco Tex unleashed his Sex-O-Lettes has there been such a cheeky way to keep dancing.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Goldstein, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Vaughn Oliver, Producer, Additional Producer - Rockets, FeaturedArtist - David Macklovitch, Producer, Additional Producer, ComposerLyricist - Christian Le Bartz, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
J. Weider, ComposerLyricist - Armand van Helden, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Goldstein, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Vaughn Oliver, Producer, Additional Producer - David Macklovitch, Producer, Additional Producer - Terry McFaddin, ComposerLyricist - J Footman, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Chazz, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rappin Ralph, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Goldstein, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Vaughn Oliver, Producer, Additional Producer - David Macklovitch, Producer, Additional Producer - Bruce Patch, ComposerLyricist - Alan Sanchez, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Bruce Ley, ComposerLyricist - William Morrison, ComposerLyricist - Hermes Trismegistus, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Goldstein, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Nigel Bennett, ComposerLyricist - Vaughn Oliver, Producer, Additional Producer - David Macklovitch, Producer, Additional Producer
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Stafford Floyd, ComposerLyricist - Jonathan Floyd, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Reginald Brown, ComposerLyricist - Tawatha Agee, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Metatron, Mellotron, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - David Macklovitch, Producer, Co-Producer - George Michael Elian, ComposerLyricist - Charles Edward Halstead, ComposerLyricist - Janis Tunnell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 3 Beat Music Ltd
Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Oliver Goldstein, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - D. Macklovitch, ComposerLyricist - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - A. Macklovitch, ComposerLyricist - S. STILLS, ComposerLyricist - C. Stills, ComposerLyricist - A. van Helden, ComposerLyricist - Vaughn Oliver, Producer, Additional Producer - David Macklovitch, Producer, Additional Producer - Teddy Toothpick, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Vaughn Oliver, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - K Van Haaren, ComposerLyricist - Tony Hendrick, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Frank Farian, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ezra Koenig, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Jay, ComposerLyricist - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Ryan Leslie, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Heinz Huth, ComposerLyricist - Juergen Huth, ComposerLyricist - P-Thugg, Unknown, Other - Gayle Robbins, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - David Wilcock, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Alides Hidding, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Martin Page, ComposerLyricist - Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist - Brian Fairweather, ComposerLyricist - Vaughn Oliver, Producer, Additional Producer
℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited, under exclusive licence to All Around The World Limited
Armand van Helden, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Alain Macklovitch, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - A-Trak, MainArtist - Duck Sauce, MainArtist
℗ 2011 3Beat Productions Limited
Album review
Although the snooty house music fans declare it a garish glop of slick pop goo with maybe just one small drop of clever, Duck Sauce (featuring superstar DJs Armand Van Helden and A-Trak banging the beats together) released a seriously subversive slab of music with their infectious, Boney M.-sampling track "Barbara Streisand." Veteran DJ prankster Green Velvet must have gone greener with envy once the Lima, Ohio kids on the network television show Glee performed the cut, as if "Pump Up the Volume" and "James Brown Is Dead"-styled numbers were perfect for show choir. In other words, it is best to come at the supergroup's debut album as tongue-in-cheek prime-time fluff that's only "deep" when it comes to "concept." Even then, the concept is merely to be deviant and delicious in equal measure, and on that front Quack wins, from its Dazz Band-on-disco-steroids opener "Chariots of the Gods" to the Anton LaVey-with-duck-bill artwork that graces the album's back cover. Throwing a duck bill on the greatest Satanist known to man is the kind of sharp and short humor that's found here, as skits and audio montages (house music segues into norteño music, and other nonsense) break up a solid set of slick bangers, including the infectious "Barbara Streisand" and its Village People-ish follow-up, "Radio Stereo." Those familiar with the gold chains and goofball-filled albums of Armand will find Quack's layout quite like his Killing Puritans or Nympho efforts, but A-Trak is no silent partner, and it would be easy to chalk all the Kavinsky-esque synth lines and stuttering electro up to him. Get hip or get irked because either reaction is worthy of this loud, smart-ass joke put on loop, but not since Disco Tex unleashed his Sex-O-Lettes has there been such a cheeky way to keep dancing.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:19
- Main artists: Duck Sauce A-Trak Armand van Helden
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: All Around The World
- Genre: Electronic Dance
© 2014 3Beat Productions Limited Under Exclusive License To All Around The World Limited ℗ 2014 3Beat Productions Limited Under Exclusive License To All Around The World Limited
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