This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
It’s a small world after all — particularly if N.Y.C. electronica dance-duo Expansion Union’s definition of worldwide is anything to go by.
Their debut full-length disc has plenty of funk, to be sure. Trouble is, it’s nearly all from the same place: the Eurotrash heap. Like Giorgio Moroder, Axel F and Falco, EU specialize in that brand of midtempo electro-boogie that locks into a trance-like groove, plops down a cheesy melody line and then rides the funk with little variation till the tape runs out. Some out-there scratching and heavy-metal guitar licks (one of EU’s members used to be a rocker) help break up the monotony slightly, but otherwise, Expansion Union could stand to expand their own horizons a touch.
