This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If there’s a lounge somewhere off to the side of the Star Wars cantina, New York electro duo Futique could be the perfect house band. And on their off nights, they could headline at intergalactic raves after the third sunset on Tattooine.
Heaven knows, the ambient, dubby techno sound of their debut disc Go Low is certainly out of this world. Clearly, that’s “low” as in cool, calm and quiet — not deep. Futique’s musical universe features jaunty beatbox rhythms, looney tunes and merry melodies, hypnotisingly kitschy grooves and complex, random-bleep alien ragtime arrangements — all stitched together into mellow machine music that takes you on a night flight to Venus. The force — or at least the farce — is clearly with them.
