Time Out New York / Issue 683 : Oct 30–Nov 5, 2008
Album review
Rather Sound than Safe
Rebirth (Ztudio)

Sif and Rasmus Neo, the Danish couple who produce under the Rather Sound than Safe sobriquet, have pulled off a rare feat with their debut full-length release. They’ve taken progressive house, a sound not often associated with personality, and infused it with humanity and feeling, largely through an elegant sort of minor-key musicianship and a liberal dose of Sif’s sultry, subdued vocals. It’s those qualities that almost lift the album out of the house realm entirely; this material is closer to the gothic refinement of classic 4AD acts like Dead Can Dance or Cocteau Twins—albeit an electronic. bleepier version of those two bands—than what you’ll hear at Pacha on a Saturday night, and it’s all the better for it. This is emotive, gorgeous music from a team that will likely be around for a while.

— Bruce Tantum

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Josh DupontWed, Nov 05, at 03:49pm
I am a BIG fan

LINK : http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/clubs/68294/rather-sound-than-safe

You can DOWNLOAD “REBIRTH” from Beatport in Wav//MP3//MP4

Alle the tracks are also available on Itunes

001 The Beat
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002 Fairytale
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003 Stop Blaming
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004 Funkateer
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005 Trust
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006 King & Queen
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007 Really
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008 Cloudy
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009 Raindance
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010 Rise & Fall
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011 Transmission
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All the tracks is written and produced by Sif & Rasmus Neo
Mastering: Jan Eliason

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photos by Jakob Eskildsen

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Rather Sound Than Safe aka RSTS is Sif and Rasmus Neo.

They met back in 1996 in Copenhagens underground club scene which was one of Europes techno capitals at that time where Rasmus worked as a highly respected dj in all the big clubs and various raves both as an artist but later as organizer together with Sif.

Their love for the music led to the beginning of RSTS which was formed in 2006 together with their own lable Ztudio.

That year Sif started the lyric and vocal process for the forthcoming debute album while Rasmus worked on the arrangements and compositions.

RSTS is best described as a mix of masculine and feminine energy, blending original electronic beats with Sifs deep sexy vocal and lyrics with a higher meaning and wisdom.

Their demo track made it straight into Denmarks National Radio P3 Club and was supported by many dj´s.

This achivement was followed up by a top 10 placement on the ADE DJ/TRAX best dance track competion with Rise and Fall at the Amsterdam Dance Event 2007.

The track was also noticed and mentioned by Dancemusic.about.com who placed it on a top 30 for new tracks to keep an eye out for.

Since then RSTS has gained a lot of airplay around the world.

Meanwhile, RSTS is finishing up the work on their debute album which is set to be released in October 2008. The pre release of the first single “Fairytale” gained a lot of attention when RSTS was Myspace Featured artist in July 2008 - The feedback has been fantastic Cheers!

>>Listners love RSTS