Supermeng

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Perhaps there's nothing technically wrong with a Cuban-German-American making fun of people with Latino accents -- especially when he basically seems to be making fun of everything else at the same time, to include surf rock, punk rock, electro-pop, house, Miami bass, and dubstep. And it's also hard to get offended when everything about Supermeng is so self-consciously goofy, from the "fight for your right to live" cliches of "Ultimate Universe" to the parodic synthesizer squidginess and silly samples of "The Blob" and the dub-hop chaos of "Portal Prayer." None of this is to say that there aren't plenty seriously cool grooves and songs on this album; "Diamond Eyes" is lots of fun despite its bloodless beat and anomic lyrics about "watching you get a pedicure," and "Quasar" sounds, delightfully, like it can't decide whether it's celebrating dubstep or ridiculing it. Elsewhere, "Breathe the Beat" and "Supermeng" both sound like "Funky Cold Medina" covered by robots. Perhaps the album's finest moment is "When Dinosaurs Rule the Earth," on which a modified soca beat provides a bed for a repeated sample saying "dinosaurs...yes!" Sure, it's all kind of befuddling -- but that seems to be the point. And the grooves really are bangin'. ~ Rick Anderson