Despite a percieved rockist inclination, the generally philosophy of DCist Music is put best by Natasha Lyonne’s grammatically challenged disco queen in Detroit Rock City: “Good tunes is good tunes.” In that spirit this writer tests the waters of D.C.’s electronic music with Trifecta and their newest release: Laugh Now but One Day We’ll Be in Charge.

The D.C. based trio creates jazz-tinged electronica somewhere between Soulive and Air . It’s music you’d expect to hear at bars with one word names and bamboo fixtures. It’s also music that slips easily into the background, which is the album’s main fault, it’s really not that intersting. Laugh Now is extremely mellow and, at times, borders on comatose.

Aurally, Laugh Now transports you to another time — the late ‘90s.( It may seem too soon to delineate a ’90s sound, but 1997 will have been a decade ago in two weeks.) Spoken samples are inserted in large chunks and repeated as in “Busy Child” or are constantly modified a la “The Rockerfeller Skank.” Add in some scratching and these sounds are layered over an open soundscape in the style of Moby’s “Porcelain.” Though trying not to apply “sell by” date to a musical style, Laugh Now causes one to recall previous artists and their Clinton-era endeavors more than it engages today.