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Come With Us - Chemical Brothers
Besides Tom Rolands and Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers, few artists have the clout, chops, and DJ wherewithal to change the landscape of dance music. Still, it's not something the duo seems in a particular hurry to do. Since the release of the now-classic Exit Planet Dust, an intensely groove-able rap-stomp hodgepodge, and Dig Your Own Hole, their 1997 breakout record, big beat has been eating itself in a commercialized frat-boy frenzy. Yet the Brothers haven't found--or even really tried to find--that Something Else to turn the masses on in a different, exciting direction. True, their last full-length, Surrender, found them incorporating a house-ier feel, mixing a retro aesthetic with four-on-the-floor beats, but it was really the same old batch of clever samples and rolling thumps. Which wasn't necessarily a bad thing; most of us have happily run in place right along with them. Come with Us also finds them pulling all the usual tricks; there's an irresistible dance-floor anthem or two ("Star Guitar," "Denmark"), swooping keyboard tricks ("Come with Us"), guest vocalists (Beth Orton, Richard Ashcroft), and the amazing fluidity that allows a moody song like Orton's "The State We're In" to sound perfectly, logically in its place. While it sounds like they're coasting, their refined, sugary formula is so sweet, it's hard to complain. --Matthew Cooke
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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Orblivion - Orb
Rolling Stone (4/17/97)
...sparse melodies that swim through galactic pulses, sonar blips and assorted computer sounds. Beats drift in and out picking up intensity then dissipating like steam....somewhat akin to playing Nintendo while listening to the Cocteau Twins...
Spin (5/97)
...combines wry apocalyptic signifying with a headful of refracted rhythms. It also takes Alex Paterson back to his dance-music roots....If the Chemical Brothers are the miscengenated spawn of DJ Kool Herc and the Ramones, Paterson owes his debt to Grandmaster Flash and electropop pioneers Perrey-Kingsley...
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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All Together Here - Lunar Drive
The artist, Ed Walksnice, Northern Cheyenne and Lunar Drive member , August 28, 1999
Urban and technological influences on Indigenous Music
While recording for "All together here" we wanted to create something new and something familiar to each song. Although I only appear on 4 tracks, this music offers me a new way of expression. Our culture, like many others around the world, struggles to survive. Personally, I've tried to find balance between the traditional and contemporary influences. More native peoples now live in the urban/inner-city than those who reside on reservations. This collection of recordings I hope can inspire the native youths who are looking for their identity and come to realize they're not alone. It's never to late to learn about your people. Hahoo! (i.e.big thanks) to Amazon.com for this opportunity to comment and share.
techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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Dead Cities - The Future Sound of London
Rolling Stone (12/26/96)
...dashing scavengers...fashioning their apocalyptic electronica from ravaged, rehabilitated scraps of Run-DMC, Ozric Tentacles, Welsh songbird Mary Hopkin and a little girl crying....full of color, mood and an emotionally agitated, last-stand vitality that rarely grows in the suburbs.
Entertainment Weekly (11/22/96)
...A somber mix that will challenge even the most die-hard electronic-music devotees.
techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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Loop Bites Dog - Loop Guru
British band Loop Guru is to world music what the group Brave Combo is to polka music: hell unleashed. Imagine what sounds like Gregorian chants set to a relentless hip-hop beat ("White Light") or a synth-ed samba rhythm married with Celto-Afghani melodies ("Karma Marga"). Elsewhere can be found Jah Wobble inspired bass and drums matched with cheesy Casio-like keys ("Skin Heaven"). Sitars, backward tape loops and a rooster can all be found on "Single Orphan First Year Camel." If you like your music wild, untamed and zany, then Loop Guru is for you. --Lahri Bond
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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UFOrb - Orb
An ambient-techno classic, UFOrb captures Alex Patterson and his sonic henchman at their early peak. While the Orb had already created a dance-floor and chill-out-room sensation in 1991 with Little Fluffy Clouds, this follow-up disc displays Patterson's talent for fusing ambient music with dub science and a club culture mindset. Incorporating psychedelicized samples over the era's reigning techno beats and deep reggae bass lines, heady compositions such as "Towers of Dub" and "Close Encounters" are excessive in length but consistently entertaining. The album's highlight is an 18-minute version of "Blue Room" (there's a 40-minute version out there, too), which features the sensual bass playing of Jah Wobble and the oscillating guitar of coproducer Steve Hillage. A most serious contribution to the legacy of the modern DJ. --Mitch Myers
techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Rolling Stone (1/23/97)
...The DJ built songs out of layer upon layer of sampled instruments and other sound fragments, most of which he processed, looped and re-arranged far beyond recognition....funky rhythms that never sound like they've been cut and pasted together...
Spin (1/97)
...layers slinky break-beats with sampled sounds--anything from church bells to War Of The Worlds and, egad, Tears For Fears....a cosmic-chamber feel complete with choruses of fallen angels, plucked harps, Mellotron, and cello...
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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Earthling - David Bowie
Rolling Stone (2/20/97) ...gets its charge from the kind of loud, industrial power riffs and electronically treated vocals that Trent Reznor is so fond of....captures the mood of contemporary popular culture--from the anguish of American industrial rock to the ecstasy of British dance music.Spin (3/97) ...his first credible stab at a vanguard styling since his Brian Eno days, a collection of nine tunes surfing the wave of dance music that's everyone's best bet for next big thing...
techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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You've Come a Long Way Baby - Fatboy Slim
Vibe
Taken together, the songs sum up that Fatboy appeal: a match of brawny rhythms and clever samples that recall milestones like De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising ... and the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique....
Entertainment Weekly
Cook concocts a constantly morphing undercurrent.... It's a block-rocking beat that deliciously subverts pop formula, in which lyrics change while the music remains the same.... Baby is clever, hectic, relentless--and very of its time.
techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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Surrender - Chemical Brothers
Surrender kicks off with a nervous, vibrating whine that brings to mind the first three seconds of Hendrix's "Foxy Lady." But it's just a tease; on their third album, techno's Chemical Brothers have all but turned their back on the rock muscle that earned 1997's Dig Your Own Hole gold status in the U.S. Oh, there are guest rock vocalists galore--New Order's Bernard Sumner, Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval, and Oasis's Noel Gallagher--but only the latter brings out the crunching big beats that the Chems all but invented. The rest of Surrender hews closer to the thinner, synthesized textures of the electro revival that's swept the dance-music world. The leadoff track, "Music: Response," is a seamless trip back to 1985, complete with vocoderized singing and Morse-code beeps. And Sumner's "Out of Control" replicates the thrill of hearing the gloomy Joy Division morph into a swell synthpop band. --Jeff Salamon
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techno, techno music, jungle music, trip hop
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Fountains of Paradise - Loop Guru
Loop Guru represent England's finest strain of ethno-ambient electronica. Led by a quasimystical twosome known only as Salman Gita and Ja Muud, Loop Guru illuminate a seductive East-meets-West approach toward sonorously sampled psychedelia. While there's been much ethno-electronic experimentation in music, Loop Guru have defined this art for many years. Gathered from their early recordings (the audiocassette-only releases of Catalogue of Desires, volumes 1 and 2), this collection integrates tablas and chants with sitars, guitars, and electronics. Using programmed percussionists, Muud and Gita create a thick, dreamlike atmosphere filled with meditative resonance. Synthesized drumbeats mingle with bamboo flutes and morph into a contemplative tone poem replete with chirping birds. Understated, otherworldly, and sonically evocative, this is another fine edition of Loop Guru's distinctive sound. --Mitch Myers
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