All-In

We Are A&C Leave the disco exploration to Daft Punk and Basement Jaxx; leave the lofty lounge kitsch to Air. Like virtual tourists, Arling & Cameron skim it all (and more) with their own peculiar brand of Dutch cheese powering the trip. Arling & Cameron dabble in 22nd-century space pop, rid...	Music for Imaginary Films It's not unusual that the best part of a movie is its soundtrack. Dutch duo Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron cut straight to the gravy and created Music for Imaginary Films, a collection of tracks for movies that don't exist. On this, the follow-up to their debut All In, Arling a...	Hi-Fi Underground "Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron have a solid handle on all things amusing and eccentric, as well as a penchant for genre hopping." - SPLENDID The last Arling & Cameron album came out in September 2001. In October, a tour van crash snapped Cameron's back and broke up the ban...	Sound Shopping	Drive-In Years: B-Sides of Arling & Cameron
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Good Enough for a Few Spins
Think of the German synth duo Yello from the 80's on speed for the late 90's. You get the gist. While this disc has been called everything from an artistic kitschy feat to a...beverage coaster by other reviewers, you can be sure it is anything but dull or mundane. The tracks are very much in the musical techno vein of Euro-Japanese dance music with a 60's retro lounge throwback sound. While it's not exactly Moby or ATB (which many still question ATB's popularity) it's a casual groovy listen. It doesn't break any new techno or ambience territory, but hey, neither did disco...In a few years, even this recording will sound dated and by then who knows what the latest club trend sounds will be...Enjoy it for the moment...

Instant beverage coaster...simply awful.
BUYER BEWARE! Based on all the positive reviews of this album, I decided to jump in and try it. I was terribly disappointed. This is just a bunch of blips and beeps that sound like they came right out of a Casio keyboard with what sounds like Japanese girls yelling "We love dancing! Yay!" over and over again. The music is totally inane, riddiculous, uninventive, unappealing, non-melodic, and tiresome. It remids me of a soundtrack to a second rate Japanese childrens' video game. Even if you can get into the kitsch appeal of this release more than I could, I highly doubt this is a title that will stand up to repeated listening. I have an extensive music collection of over six-thousand CD's spanning nearly every genre, and this one honestly rates among the worst I have ever purchased. Pass on this one!

The Dutch meet the Japanese!
Amsterdam meets Tokyo in a strange array of samples and dance beats. This record is sugary to the bone with campy dance tracks, but it dose not lack pop sophistication. I believe two tracks from ALL IN are featured in Acura commercials.Between the samples and the dancefloor backbeats, the album is composed very nicely, and there are some really clever lounge numbers that really cap the ALL IN release off (for me at least). This isn't a one genera album, they hit just about everything that is cool and hip.

Very light, very quirky
I have never heard music quite like this. It is so happy and so off-the-wall that you can't help smiling when you listen to it.

ohhh yes!!
You simply *must* love this music. It is happiness. It makes me bounce. It makes me love life. It was like they scraped away the evil in life and allowed us to see the good stuff again.