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Him includes: Doug Scharin. Additional personnel: Jeff Parker, Bundy Brown, Julie Liu, Rob Mazurek. Alternative Press (2/00, pp.83-4) - 4 out of 5 - "...another chameleon-like shift in styles....[Doug] Scharin explores jazz and ... Full Descriptionfunk themes while retaining his dub sensibilities....continuing [his] unbroken string of successes."
Magnet (1-2/00, p.69) - "...[Doug Scharin's] most dub-inflected fantasies....sounding more than a bit like Miles Davis' ambient/jazz-fusion excursions of the mid '70s....extremely stimulating..." Hide Description H I M Sworn Eyes Songs | 1. | Verdict of Science, A |
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Purchase Sworn Eyes CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die CD (1996)
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At once dimly settled and quietly driving, Tortoise's second album is afloat in contradictions. The group's "songs," all instrumental, are entirely about moods--marrying open-ended, dub-infected grooves with delays and other studio effects, pouring on vibraphone and marimbas, and electronically discombobulating the rhythms to create a sort of chill-out music birthed at the bottom of the ocean. But even their calmest modes offer a propulsiveness missing from much atmospheric music. Call it beat-wise ambient, if you must.
Yet even that simplification doesn't do justice to this album's expansive, anything-goes audio imagery. Multiple, thread-like textures interconnect in Tortoise's pieces, and dilate to become backdrops for the movie scenes of bizarre dreams--ranging from lonesome, psychedelically-charged Sergio Leone westerns to glued whirlpools of Ralph Bakshi's outer worlds, all in dimly lit Technicolor. MILLIONS NOW LIVING is among the first albums designed to soothe your nerves ...
| | H I M Our Point Of Departure CD (2000)
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| | H I M Egg CD (1996)
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EGG is HiM's 1996 debut and, while not the band's best, it is a fair representation of the group's fusion-oriented approach. Polyrhythms percolate, guitars swell with distortion-enhanced dreaminess, bass lines burble, and the whole strikes a pleasing see-saw between cerebral and funky. Fans of Tortoise, Isotope 217, and certain strains of IDM (Mouse on Mars, for example) should check this out.
Led by percussionist and genre-smasher Doug Sharin, HiM is part ...
| | Kieran Hebden Rounds CD (2003)
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Four Tet's ROUNDS is that rare electronica album that seems to push all the right buttons at once. The side project of Fridge's Kieran Hebden, Four Tet released two records prior to 2003's ROUNDS, but this acclaimed outing surpasses even those excellent efforts. Incorporating mid-tempo and down-tempo beats, ambient atmospherics, dub elements, and the noticeable presence of acoustic instrumentation, ROUNDS is expertly balanced in style and substance.
Part of Hebden's secret is his subtlety--the sonic experimentation is counterbalanced by lush, languorous melodicism, so that the tension and edge driving his sound never become too over-the-top. Even the frantically paced "Spirit Fingers" has a dreamy feel. "She Moves She" takes a hip-hop beat as its base, but covers it with soft bells and guitar lines that are later made jagged by a rhythmic sample. This remarkably dynamic aesthetic is par for the course--the lovely "Hands" features tumbling drums and found sounds, while the structure of "Unspoken" is both spare and expansive. ROUNDS displays a musician's concern with organic sounds and textures, yet is ...
| | Mogwai Happy Songs For Happy People CD (2003) Enhanced CD
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Of all the bands emerging in the mid-'90s who were labeled "post-rock," Scotland's Mogwai always seemed to be one of the closest to (gasp) an actual rock band. While their third album ROCK ACTION showed them edging ever closer to rockdom, with more conventional song structures and vocals, the follow-up is a hearty about-face. HAPPY SONGS FOR HAPPY PEOPLE is one of the band's more atmospheric efforts.
Whereas the band's early sound was often defined by angular, hypnotic guitar riffs a la Slint, HAPPY SONGS is full of dreamy, ambient electronic textures that wouldn't sound out of place on, say, a Spiritualized album. There is the occasional vocal, but voices (like everything else) are used purely as texture here. The tracks occasionally build to powerful crescendos, but for the most part, this is a mesmerizing, meditative effort suggestive of autumnal introspection and long walks through twilight forests. Is that post-rock enough for you?
The fourth album from Glasgow's kings of glowering, volatile quasi-instrumental ...
| | Steve Hillage L CD (1975) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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| | Attrition Tricky Business CD (1998)
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Attrition's records have aged better than most of their goth/industrial dance contemporaries. Martin Bowes' intricate sense of sound design and rhythm programming, and partner Ashley Niblock's merging of spoken word and mock operatics, have engendered a less genre-defined feel in the band.
1991's A TRICKY BUSINESS is a later addition to the Attrition catalog. Here, Bowes is more interested in dirty autobahns than dirty, mascara-smudged faces. Tracks such ...
| | Depeche Mode Construction Time Again CD (1983)
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Having proven his abilities as a pop craftsman on the previous year's A BROKEN FRAME, DM main songwriter Martin Gore gets down to the business of developing a new sonic language for himself and his bandmates on CONSTRUCTION TIME. Earlier in its career, Depeche Mode tried to make its synthesizer-only arrangements seem warm and fuzzy, but here the band embraces the Kraftwerk-pioneered tradition of exploiting the synthesizer's inherent inorganic ...
| | Lightwave Nachtmusik CD (1990) (Import) Germany
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| | Rockabilly Cats CD (2002)
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| | Pilot A's B'S & Rarities CD (2007) (Import) Import; Australia
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| | Warehouse Grooves Vol. 4 CD (1996) Import
$8.32  | | Stacey Weiss Sinclair Stacy Weiss Sinclair CD (2007)
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| | Padawaco' Plan B CD (2008) (Import)
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PADAWA' WHAT? Of minimalist funk (out of necessity we are 3) bass/batterie (but without batterie) maximized by what remains us of available that our voices ("onomatopeïques" ) and the hot copper-coloured tones of saxophones and flute which runs across crossing so going worlds of BlueFunk from Kéziah Jones to the Jazz / vocal Scat of Bobby Mc Ferrin, Hip Hop or else for the key " jazzy ", Léon Parker. A bass reminding Primus, a groove scooping out of course in Funk " oldschool ", Afrobeat and " Worl Music "... And morePADAWA'STORYSince 2004, PADAWACO' distils some "Padawacurlesque Tribal sound Funk " on stages from ...
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