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Mark Farina - Air Farina

Label:
Catalog#:
OM 141
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
US
Released:
07 Oct 2003
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
House, Deep House

Tracklist

1   Take Off 0:41 X
2   Love Make's 4:00 X
3   Layover 1 0:57 X
4   Betcha Do 4:24 X
5   Leave SF 4:10
    Featuring - Lance DeSardi
6   To Do 3:17 X
    Featuring - Kaskade
7   Talk To Me 3:59 X
8   Layover 2 0:36 X
9   Dream Machine 6:08 X
    Featuring - Sean Hayes
10   Layover 3 0:57 X
11   Fusbol 7:06 X
12   Dropped Into Water 4:47 X
13   We Gotta Go 4:35
14   Gramma So 4:18 X
15   Gramma Si (Late Night Mix) 2:04 X
16   Layover 4 0:39 X
17   Travel 4:58 X
    Featuring - People Under The Stairs
18   Layover 5 0:45 X
19   Radio (Lost Baggage Mix) 7:24

Notes

This album is "continuous", fading from one track to the next. Also featured throughout are samples of airport-related recordings, stuck onto the beginning of some tracks. The "Layover" tracks are just pilot-type audio clips.

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Rated 5/5
Review by Eikwel Mar 30, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
I've been dreamin' and listenin' to Farina for 4 years now. I love deep house, I love HipHop, I love urban sounds.. but I love experimentation and people who dare some stuff too...

San Francisco sessions vol 1? a masterpiece for the deep and funky house generation..

Mushroom jazz series? a unique atmosphere, a pride for true downtempo/hiphop heads..

Air Farina? something special, 4.5/5 stars. The man has dared, the result is freak, the result is deep..

Some pure deep house tracks, with a strong idea of experimentation.. (elements of HipHop, Electro, Minimal, and the very smart airport ambiance)
Listen to Betcha Do..Radio...Cali Spaces.. have you ever heard a man who did something like dis before?..
Farina has HIS unique style, and it works, if you're open-minded.
Okay, that's not the album which will make you dance and rock on the dancefloor... it's an album that you will hear with your favourite audiophones, in your sofa..and you will dream, you will travel with Farina and his airport concept, very aesthetic, very stylish..

Buy it if you want a different house, more minimal, more abstract and more "mental".
Rated 3/5
Review by scoundrel May 03, 2004
Mark Farina, best known for his jazzy-house Mushroom Jazz DJ-mixes, finally releases his first album -- and it’s not what you would expect. House is still the order of the day, but it’s more abstract, with cut-up voices. “Betcha Do,” for example, sounds almost like Akufen. “Talk to Me” has some more of the jazzy chords and deep house that you would expect from Farina, but with the same cut-up aesthetic. “Futbol” does the same, except with Spanish vocals. There’s a change of pace in “Dream Machine,” which features the watery voice of Sean Hayes (not the “Will & Grace” star, though) over a downtempo beat, while “Travel” throws in the dexterous vocals of the People Under the Stairs. An interesting, if not entirely successful, album.