Fantastic Plastic Machine, Beautiful - 56m 36s

Tracks & Durations

1. I am beautiful	0:04
2. Beautiful Days	4:28
3. Paragon	5:09
4. Love is Psychadelic	5:59
5. On a chair	6:17
6. Whistle Song	8:01
7. One Minute of Love	1:00
8. Todos os Desejos	7:27
9. I'm still a simple man	4:40
10. Black Dada	3:58
11. God Save the Mona Lisa	5:12
12. Beautiful Days (Reprise)	4:13

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Review

One-man music machine and cultural trendsetter Tomoyuki Tanaka (a.k.a. Plastic Fantastic Machine) is back in a big sassy way with his third release, Beautiful. Other than an overall mellowing of PFM's occasionally over-amped arrangements, the biggest surprise on Beautiful is the generous use of strings that make the record a bit of an odd duck, more appropriate for the boudoir than the dance floor. In fact, only the endlessly spunky "Take Me to the Disco" is a bona fide dance track here. Otherwise, Beautiful moves through a record collector's dream that includes the super-sophisticated, string-driven groove of "On a Chair," the fluty Latin jazz of "Whistle Song," the lazy, jazzy funk of "Black Dada," and the insanely overarranged spoken-word hoedown "Love Is Psychedelic." But despite all the musical territory covered there's a real cohesion to the whole affair; it's distinctly urban and hip without being pushy about it, with a sly sense of humor riding just under the surface. Occasionally Tanaka's broad palette gets a bit overloaded, with the strings going in one direction and the groove another, but for the most part he manages to pull it all together in a balancing act that both Burt Bacharach and Howie B could be proud of, and that's really saying something. --Carl HanniHeralded for his mixture of 60's Europop and Electronica, renowned Japanese DJ Tomoyuki Tanakaaka Fantastic Plastic Machine, is back with his 3rd and most ambitious record to date. Guest vocalists include legendary jazz pianist Bob Dorough and Hirth Martinez. 13 tracks. Packaged in a digipack. 2001 release.

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Beautiful

Tracks: 13 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 3m 8s (+6m 32s)

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