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Chemical Brothers Come with UsSe flere produkter fra AmazonIf anyone's suffering from new-year blues, Come With Us will shake them out of their narcolepsy. This fantastic album roars out of the starting blocks like a supercharged dragster, blowing up a heady fume of hip-hop techno flavoured with the Chemical's new found post-rave happiness. Their fourth album shows all the passion of their earlier works coupled with a sophistication beyond the mere wish to knock people's musical heads off. Impressively after over six years of making music and touring they've lost none of their enthusiasm. In fact their longevity seems to inspire them to greater achievement in a field that traditionally feeds off the new, the novel and the young. Best of all, the Brothers have developed the ability to communicate heartfelt emotions, evident on tracks such as the Beth Orton sung "The State We're In", the Pink Floyd-like "Pioneer Skies" and magnificent album closer "The Test". That doesn't mean that there aren't the "traditional" Chemical Brothers' dancefloor killers. The opener and title track "Come With Us" is easily the pulsating equal of "Hey Boy Hey Girl" or 1995's "Block Rockin' Beats". Both already released singles, the bizarre "It Began in Afrika" and the Donna Summer-meets-Kraftwerk blur of "Star Guitar" are included in their original form. They're probably the album's weakest tracks. The Brothers have moved on, yet they're still as good as they were. Go with them. -- Jake Barnes Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Future Sound Of London LifeformsSe flere produkter fra Amazon"Dead Skin Cells", "Cerebral", "Spineless Jelly": the song titles on the second full-length from U.K. duo Future Sound of London (a.k.a. Gary Cobain and Brian Dougans) almost read like chapter subheadings from a Biology textbook. And not without reason. Evolving beyond the florid environmental techno of their previous Accelerator and the hit single "Papua New Guinea", Lifeforms concentrates on Future Sound of London's painstaking construction of tiny, crystalline arrangements of organic sound. Guest stars include Curve's Toni Halliday, percussionist Talvin Singh and guitar pioneer Robert Fripp, but you'll be as hard pressed to identify their individual contributions once they've been diced and folded into the mix. Too animated to be tagged "ambient", yet not as propulsive as earlier Future Sound of London offerings, the intricate charms of Lifeforms proliferate with repeated listenings. --Kurt B. Reighley Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Bela Fleck Tales from the Acoustic Planet [Us Import]Se flere produkter fra AmazonBéla Fleck, the banjo-wizard leader of the fringe-jazz quartet the Flecktones, returns to more-bluegrass-oriented concerns with this 18-song outing, a complement to 1988's Drive and a more-traditional follow-up to 1995's fusion-leaning Tales from the Acoustic Planet. Most of these songs are instrumentals boasting Drive's core group of Sam Bush on mandolin, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Tony Rice on guitar, Jerry Douglas on Dobro, and bassist Mark Schatz; they're augmented in spots by fine guest players such as Vassar Clements, John Hartford, and the incomparable banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs. Fleck's spidery, tasteful plucking style lends originals like "Major Honker" and "Katmandu" an ever-so-slightly offbeat air, while he gives classics like Scruggs's "Foggy Mountain Special" and "Polka on the Banjo" traditional readings that wouldn't be out of place at the Opry. Flecktones fans will find much to like in Fleck's rootsy playing, and so will bluegrass purists. --Gregory McNamee Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Fear Factory DigimortalSe flere produkter fra AmazonFear Factory's fourth album, Digimortal, finds the hirsute Los Angeles industrial metallers happening on a theme that they've been alluding to throughout their 10 year existence; a concept album about the synthesis of man and machine, its 11 tracks showcase a mishmash of screaming electronics and punishingly low-end death metal dynamics. Guitarist Dino Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera served tenure in the none-more-metal Satanic terrorist troupe Brujera shortly before the release of Digimortal, but such straight-ahead metal antics have not dulled Fear Factory's silicon edge. The scattershot riffage of "Damaged" is undercut by furious distorted synth-lines, and the hyper-tense "No One" showcases sirens stolen straight from the Chemical Brothers' box of old-school rave machinery. Meanwhile, while there's nothing quite as startling as "Obsolete"--a track from the 1999 album of the same name that featured vocals from synth pioneer Gary Numan--the beatbox-based "Back The Fuck Up", featuring Cypress Hill's B-Real, stands a good head and shoulders above the ham-fisted rap-rock fusion peddled by many of Fear Factory's peers. --Louis Pattison Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Tracey Thorn Out of the Woods [VINYL]Se flere produkter fra AmazonOut Of The Woods is the first solo album from Tracey Thorn for over two decades. The Great British public probably know Thorn best as the voice of Everything But The Girl's 'Missing', the Todd Terry mix of which hit No.3 in 1994 and hung around in the Billboard Top 100 for over a year. That huge hit, however, is somewhat deceptive in the context of Thorne and her partner, Ben Watt's 25-year career. Out Of The Woods, like much Everything But The Girl before it, is a set of torch-songs versed in the production techniques of clubland, but shot through with a melancholy soul more familiar to jazz or folk-rock - or, indeed, cosmic disco pioneer Arthur Russell, whose 'Get Around To It' Thorne covers here, and all but makes it her own. Lyrically, events hint at a certain domesticity: 'Nowhere Near' is a delicate song about motherhood sung over shimmering synths, piano, and pipes, while 'Hands Up To The Ceiling' seems to be about finding sanctuary in a record collection, Thorne sneaking to an attic to spin "Siouxsie Sioux, and Edwin too/ Bobby D, in '63". Those eager for Thorn to reprise 'Missing', however, maybe be satisfied by 'Grand Canyon' and the closing 'Raise The Roof', two potential club hits in the waiting. --Louis Pattison Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Pierre Henry Metamorphose Messe Pour Le Temps PresentSe flere produkter fra AmazonIn 1967, Michel Colombier and musique concr�te pioneer Pierre Henry achieved surprising success on the French charts with four instrumental compositions that incorporated rock guitars and synthesizers with Henry's trademark spliced magnetic tapes. To celebrate that release's 30th anniversary, several hotshot European remixers went to work on "Teen Tonic," "Jericho Jerk," "Too Fortiche," and the most famous of all, "Psyché Rock." The result is a superior showcase of just about every style in today's electronic music, from St. Germain's acid-jazz to Tek 9's hyperventilating drum and bass to Dimitri from Paris's easy touch. While many dismember the songs, it's a testimony to the awesome staying power of "Psyché Rock" that it survives assaults by Ken Abyss, Fatboy Slim, William Orbit, and Coldcut, and always sounds utterly colossal. --Elisabeth Vincentelli Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Smog Red Apple FallsSe flere produkter fra AmazonTo his closest fans, it probably came as nothing less than outright heresy, but Red Apple Falls--the seventh album from the motherlode-of-miserycore Smog--ended sombre-faced indie pioneer Bill Callahan's nine-year flirtation with the ethics of lo-fi forever. That it was Smog's strongest work to date was in no small part down to the influence of producer Jim O'Rourke; coupling pianos, horns, pedal steel, and all manner of light alt-country flourishes to Callahan's desperate tales of withered love, all-consuming misanthropy, and doom-laden death imagery, O'Rourke skilfully twitches aside the curtains to let shafts of light into a monumentally twisted psyche. And while the record's first words--"The morning paper is on its way / It's all bad news on every page"--might be thoroughly bleak, this is undoubtedly a work of painful humanity; like the voice of, say, Leonard Cohen, Callahan's remarkably emotive, expressive semi-spoken vocal is capable of expressing anything from lump-in-throat empathy to startlingly inhuman callousness. Red Apple Falls would, in turn, be superceded by Smog's next record--2000's glorious Knock Knock--but this is Callahan's cold new dawn, and it sounds satisfyingly, peerlessly mordant. -- Louis Pattison Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Chris De Burgh The StorymanSe flere produkter fra AmazonOn 2004's The Road to Freedom, power-pop pioneer Chris de Burgh mined the rich seam of British folk to construct an emotive yet relatively unsentimental set of songs. Perhaps buoyed by the critical success of the album - it was largely hailed as a return to form -- he now returns with another 'concept' album, Story Man, which this time explores the idea of story-telling throughout different global cultures. Comprised of 12 tracks -- six of them recored at Abbey Road during a live session with 90 members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - the album is more epic in scope than its pared-down predecessor and inevitably calls upon a variety of vocalists and musicians from around the world. The London Russian Choir appear on the yearning wartime ballad "Leningrad", Egyptian vocalist Hani Hussein sings on the Middle-Eastern tinged "My Father's Eyes", and renowned female African group The Mahotella Queens chant beautifully for the questing "Spirit". However, not every track is a success. Though the album flows coherently, there is a marked difference in quality between, for example, the restrained folk of "Mirror Of The Soul" to the alarmingly clichéd "One World" or the schmaltzy "The Sweetest Kiss Of All". An ambitious and impassioned project it may be, but the results are at times rather mixed just the same. --Paul Sullivan Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Ed Kuepper Electrical StormSe flere produkter fra AmazonThough Electrical Storm was the beginning of a glorious and prolific solo career for Kuepper, he already had half a dozen classic albums under his belt before setting out under his own name. As guitarist with Brisbane delinquents The Saints, Kuepper had been a pioneer of punk rock, and as mainstay of The Laughing Clowns, he had managed to produce a strain of avant-garde rock that actually had tunes in it. Electrical Storm was the most straightforward album Kuepper had been responsible for so far--a collection of abrasive, mournful tunes laced with Kuepper's guttural vocal and lashed with some dazzling guitar playing that transcends the obvious budget restrictions. The title track is a small masterpiece. --Andrew Mueller Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Susumu Yokota Grinning CatSe flere produkter fra AmazonSusumu Yokota came to the attention of the clued-up musical public with Grinning Cat's predecessor Sakura, a minor ambient classic that found this homely Japanese sound technician showered with critical plaudits, and compared--not without good reason, we might add--to 1970s ambient pioneer Brian Eno. While Eno's classic Music for Airports was a muzak benchmark for sound in the public sphere, Yokota's muse follows an urge towards the bliss of privacy; Grinning Cat is, Yokota explains, an album about living out a domestic fairytale with his girlfriend and a family of cats in the quiet suburbs of Tokyo. Its essence is the exquisitely layered minimalism of "King Dragonfly" where hands clap, drums pitter-patter, wind chimes gentle sway and an acoustic guitar is neatly picked to create an ornate, yet uniform tapestry of sounds--but deeper into "Grinning Cat", more disquieting moments simmer. On "Fearful Dream", psychedelic pipes and an atonal banjo strum bubble under the gentle, stuttering loop of sparse piano, while album closer "Lost Child" breathes spectral hushes and unsettling glitches through alternate speakers in the most disconcerting manner. Still, Yokota is only playing; Grinning Cat is a perfect find for fans of the quiet stuff--warm, comforting and always welcoming to visitors. -- Louis Pattison Fragt: Ukendt! |
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David Bowie Low [Limited Edition] [Japanese Import]Se flere produkter fra AmazonThe first part of a loosely affiliated trilogy ( Heroes and Lodger were to follow), Low is in part a synthesis of 1970's disco, funk and New Wave as well as a brave foray in to wordless electronic ambience. The opening salvo of songs and up-tempo instrumentals contains the single "Sound and Vision", which shudders under the archness of Bowie deadpan vocals. Elsewhere, Bowie inhabits the brilliantly starchy European funk of "Breaking Glass" and "Always Crashing in the Same Car". That Bowie found a like mind in the eternally innovative Brian Eno is no surprise; the success of the four instrumental pieces that close Low can be attributed in no small way to the production contributions of the ex- Roxy Music keyboard player turned ambient pioneer. Bowie and Eno's experiments in a Berlin recording studio would have a massive influence on the music of subsequent decades. For this reason alone, Low is an essential David Bowie album. --James Littlewood Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Chuck Prophet The Hurting BusinessSe flere produkter fra AmazonAfter his disappointing last album, this former Green On Red pioneer is now on his best form ever. Until now, Prophet's prodigious gifts as a composer and guitar-slinger often lacked focus but now, kept on a tight leash by producer Jacquire King, the songs are as immaculately arranged as they are passionately performed. The change is obvious right from the lazy sway of the opening "Rise", through the hip-hoppy garage-punk of the title track to the gut-wrenching drug-death epic "Dyin' All Young". The yearning heartache of "It Won't Be Long", the sardonic, gospel-inflected "Lucky" and the psychedelic folk-rock of "God's Arms" are gritty thinking-man's-rock done to perfection. And it just keeps getting better, revealing further depths with each listen. --Johnny Black Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Erykah Badu Worldwide UndergroundSe flere produkter fra AmazonWorldwide Underground, the third studio album from nu-soul pioneer Erykah Badu, is both a marvel of jazz smooth sensuality and misguided genius. Without question, Badu was--and clearly still is--an original; her 1997 debut album Baduizm, a rich and unexpected fusion of soul, jazz and rootsy hip-hop, paved the way for Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, India Arie, Macy Gray and Alicia Keys. However, as with her last album, Mama's Gun, it's her pioneering spirit that's actually Worldwide Underground's stumbling block. The gorgeous "I Want You" is a prime example. Starting off with the simple trick of chanted notes which mutate into a fantastically sexy groove, it's the album's woozy highlight until, inexplicably, it breaks into bizarre snarling synth riffs and jazz-fusion noodling. On the one hand it's a stroke of stripped-back brilliance; on the other it's a fragmented mess. Elsewhere the barrage of influences, ideas and production add-ons, while ensuring that things are never dull, make for confused and chaotic listening. Yet with "Bump It Up" and "Danger"'s hypnotic melodies, "Woo"'s head nodding sway and a raft of smooching soul tunes like "Think Twice" and Back in the Day (Puff)" to get lost in, she still manages to mesmerise, even when she's trying way too hard. --Dan Gennoe Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Louis Jordan Louis Jordan and His Tympany FiveSe flere produkter fra AmazonThink the five discs and 131 songs of Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 is too much Louis Jordan? Not a chance. Not for a man who so consistently and so definitively achieved the elusive and delicate combination of musicianship and accessibility. Not for a man who paved new and vital musical roads without ever losing his sense of style or his appetite for fun. Covering Jordan's historic (not to mention commercially successful) Decca tenure from 1938 to 1950, this amazing collection finds the alto-sax player, songwriter, and singer building blues and swing into a hot mix that came to be known as R&B, producing hit after hit with top-notch bands behind him, streamlining the big-band concept without diminishing the music's force. Much has been made of his role in the development of R&B--and as a result, rock & roll--and his importance as a musical pioneer can't be under estimated. But all ideas about "historical importance" fade away as these vibrant, insistent, irresistible tracks roll by. --Marc Greilsamer Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins and Contemporary LeadersSe flere produkter fra AmazonSonny Rollins's career "out West" in California was, at the time this session was recorded, confined mainly to playing live. He'd done one outstanding record with a California-based band ( Out West) but found time to cut some tunes with Hampton Hawes, Leroy Vinnegar, Barney Kessel, and Shelly Manne. As Contemporary Records-founder Lester Koenig remarks in the liner notes, Rollins characteristically unpacked a massive sheaf of music from which to pull tunes for the session. Like Out West, the tunes are at least idiosyncratic. When's the last time a postbop pioneer played anything like "Rock-a-Bye Baby with a Dixie Melody"? And the guitar-bass-sax trio on "I've Found a New Baby" slides off pristinely with its walking bass line, sharp strums, and Rollins's array of tongue effects and wafting tone that comes off its floating plateau to pounce on the melody repeatedly. Rollins sounds enthralled to be in this company, playing big-bodied lines and fluid loops. This is exceptional Rollins, plain and simple. --Andrew Bartlett Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Mickey Katz Simcha Time: Mickey Katz Plays Music for Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and BrissesSe flere produkter fra AmazonOn the surface, bandleader, songwriter, clarinetist, comedian, and (most of all) entertainer Mickey Katz is a sort of Jewish-style Spike Jones. Schmaltzy comedy and frenetic klezmer riffs combine to create humorous skits that were part borscht belt, part vaudeville. But listen here to Katz's one "straight" album--the legendary Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and Brisses, recorded in the early '50s for Capitol--and you find a true musician who could swing with jazz's best, a guy with faultless timing and a great sense of humor. On "Frailach Jamboree," he takes the upbeat traditional klezmer pattern (the frailach) and proves he and his band have impeccable timing; the next tune takes klezmer the way of Raymond Scott, the cartoon-music pioneer; on "Simcha Time," he rounds up the whole circus--bride, groom, and family (this is music for weddings, after all)--and happily informs you that the show is going to begin. Whether he's writing cancans or covering "Sunrise, Sunset," you can't help but admire Katz's musical, and comedic, genius. Don Byron achieved acclaim for his album of Katz interpretations, Plays the Music of Mickey Katz, but this is the original thing. And what a gorgeous shtick it was, now--thankfully--reissued entirely on CD with bonus cuts from Hello, Solly, his Broadway musical, and five previously unreleased tunes. --Jason Verlinde Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Various This Ugly Yet Beautiful WorldSe flere produkter fra AmazonAudio CD, Geneon [Pioneer Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Various Psychic Academy Aura BanshoSe flere produkter fra AmazonAudio CD, Geneon [Pioneer Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs [VINYL]Se flere produkter fra AmazonTo the 5 Boroughs, the Beastie Boys' first LP in six years, is a thunderous return to form. Dispensing with the electro experimentation of the more challenging Hello Nasty, the boys get back to basics, seeming to sense that the time is exactly right to launch the return of their old-skool sound. Lead single "Ch-Check It Out" blows open the doors, with its booming meaty beats and funky vibes, reminding us just how exciting the rap-rock genre was back in the day when these guys helped pioneer it, before all the whiney "Limp Linkins" came along and commodified it. To the 5 Boroughs captures the sound of the Beasties in their prime, spitting invective (as on the Bush-baiting "That's It That's All") over urgent bass-driven cuts with fortysomething voices that are as fresh as ever. They may be less concerned now with the Party than with a picnic ("grilled cheese", "flapjacks", "matzoh", "cholla", "falafel", "gorgonzola", "spaghetti" and "chicken tikka" all get a shout), but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. With age has come Buddhist-influenced wisdom, and gone are the misogynistic tendencies of old; these days they're more likely to be rapping about "the beach" rather than a bitch. Though these Beasties bring a message of love ("we gotta keep the party goin' on; all lifestyles sizes, shapes and forms") they're tighter and truer than ever. --Paul Eisinger Fragt: Ukendt! |
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Cornell Campbell I Shall Not Remove 1975-1980Se flere produkter fra AmazonCampbell started recording for ska pioneer "Sir" Coxsone Dodd in 1959, then sang lead for both the Uniques and the Eternals in the 60s. In 1972, he began a fruitful partnership with producer Bunny Lee, whose nickname inspired the Gorgon business that takes over the set's first three tracks ["The Gorgon", "The Gorgon Speaks" and "The Conquering Gorgon"!). Lee shapes the majority of this disc's contents, using a host of key players which include Carlton Barrett, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Robbie Shakespeare, Tommy McCook and Earl "Wire" Lindo. Most of these numbers were recorded at King Tubby's, with the master dubber at the controls, but still retaining some sense of song-form "reality". Campbell is sweet-voiced throughout, holding his golden notes in mid-air. "The Gorgon Speaks" stands out, with its extra-spacious bass part, hissing hi-hat and dense horn stabs, then the album's title track maintains an accessible, uptempo stride, with jabbing organ fills courtesy of Lindo. Three versions of "Dance In A Greenwich Farm" are spliced together, a lolloping feast from Dr. Alimantado, The Aggrovators and Campbell himself, while "Two Face Rasta" boasts one of the collection's strongest melody lines, winding up, down and around, with a particularly nimble vocal performance.-- Martin Longley Fragt: Ukendt! |
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