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Personnel: Laurent Garnier (various instruments); Dhafer Youssef (vocals, oud); Scan X (guitar); Bugge Wesseltoft (strings, keyboards); Marc Chalosse (keyboards).
Audio Mixer: Scan X.
Recording information: Kub, La Banlieue.
Numerous veteran producers of dance music made safe albums throughout the early 2000s. They either confined themselves to being inspired by nothing but their past releases or lost their way entirely, turning out muck that didn't illuminate any more than a nondescript chillout compilation. Laurent Garnier, however, takes more chances than ever with The Cloud Making Machine, a sprawling, moody album guaranteed to throw longtime fans for a loop (if 2000's Unreasonable Behaviour didn't do it, this one will). The producer is joined by several musicians, including pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, vocalist/oud player Dhafer Youssef, and percussionist Sangoma Everett. In a sense, the album is an extension of 2004's Excess Luggage, his imposing five-disc mix that took in Detroit techno, Chicago house, film scores, dour chamber pop group Tindersticks and British folk-hero John Martyn. Few tracks are related in any way to the dancefloor, and even those are slightly bent, regularly funneling into compositions that inspire deep thought. The whole thing is more visual than visceral. While some producers are content with making albums that take few risks and no more than a couple spins to understand and quickly forget, The Cloud Making Machine requires a lot more from its listener. It's often impenetrable and there are a couple derailments -- hear the Stooges-inspired knuckle dragger "(I Wanna Be) Waiting for My Plane," which also turns out to be Garnier's "We're an American Band" -- but it's never off-putting. ~ Andy KellmanUncut (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[A]n absorbing listen..."
The Wire (p.69) - "Garnier's Ambient experiments...which offsets a slow-burning keyboard melody with typewriter-inspired percussion, show that his time off the floor hasn't been wasted."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A]lternately crackling with electronic energy and shivering with introspective gloom." Cloud Making Machine Music Laurent Garnier Cloud Making Machine Songs | 1. | Cloud Making Machine, Pt. 1, The | |
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| 3. | Barbiturik Blues | $0.99 | |
| 4. | Huis Clos - (Spanish) | |
| 5. | Act 1 Minotaure Ex. | |
| 6. | First Reaction (V2) | |
| 7. | Controlling the House, Pt. 2 | |
| 8. | (I Wanna Be) Waiting for My Plane | |
| 9. | Jeux d'Enfants - (French) | |
| 10. | Cloud Making Machine, Pt. 2, The | |
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Subtitled - A Collection Of Classics. Choice brings together some of dance music's leading DJs and producers to compile the tracks that have influenced them professionally and personally. Features classic and hard-to-find house, disco, soul, and techno tracks. Includes 10 pages of Danny's thoughts on 23 tracks that have influenced his career. Slipcase. Ultra Records. 2003.
This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by DJ Danny Tenaglia.
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| | Very Best Of The Human League CD (2005) Remastered
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Human League: Philip Oakey, Susanne Sulley, Joanne Catherall.
Personnel: Pete Davis (programming).
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Putting together an adequate compilation of the Human League's best moments has proved to be a thankless task. What to include? (How about all of Dare!?) Do you pay attention to the pre-coed version of the band? Do you pay any attention to anything that came after Crash? At any rate, The Very Best Of Virgin retrospective, originally released in the U.K. in 2003 with remastered sound (and a bonus disc of remixes that Americans won't miss), does a respectable job of paying mind to the group's best work through 2001's Secrets (the group's best album since Dare!). All of the expected major hits -- "Don't You Want Me," "Love Action," "(Keep Feeling) Fascination," "Human" -- are provided, as are crucial early moments ("Being Boiled," "Empire State Human") and later singles that history, for the most part, has tried to forget ("One Man in My Heart," "Heart Like a Wheel"). Once again, 1980's Travelogue goes completely ignored; while that album didn't impact ...
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The enhanced portion of this release contains "making of" video.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
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