Various - Headz : A Soundtrack Of Experimental Beathead Jams


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Label: Mo Wax
Catalog#: MW 026 LP
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Gatefold
Country:UK
Released:1994
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Trip Hop, Breaks, Downtempo
Credits: Compiled By - James Lavelle
Notes:... Abstract Musical Science ...

Re released in 1996 in a grey cardboard sleeve
Rating: 4.57/5 (86 votes) Rate It
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Tracklisting:

A1 Patterson Freedom Now (Meditation)
A2 Attica Blues Contemplating Jazz
A3 Awunsound Symmetrical Jazz (Flapper Till 5am Mix)
B1 Nightmares On Wax Stars
B2 La Funk Mob Ravers Suck Our Sound
B3 M.F. Outa 'National Miles Out Of Time (Astrocentric Mix 'n' Beats)
C1 RPM The Inside
C2 Autechre Lowride (7:15)
C3 Olde Scottish Wildstyle (The Krush Handshake)
    Mixed By - Howie B.
  Scratches - DJ Krush
D1 DJ Shadow Lost & Found (S.F.L.)
D2 Skull Destroy All Monsters
D3 Deflon Sallahr ... Don't Fake It
E1 RPM 2000
E2 Palm Skin Productions Slipper Suite (I) Jeremy's Velvet Slippers (II) Moonrakers (III) Unspeakable Acts
E3 UNKLE The Time Has Come (U.N.K.L.E. vs. The Major Force Ems Orchestra)
    Co-producer - Major Force West E.M.S. Orchestra
F1 Howie B. Head West - Gun Fight At The O.K. Corrall
F2 Tranquility Bass They Came In Peace
F3 DJ Shadow In-Flux (Alternative Interlude '93 Remix)
User Reviews:
dexterfeng, Aug 11, 2003

Headz 2 had more extended licensing muscle both in acquiring tracks and in the release itself.
Headz came as a more directed shot acrossed the bow for I think a great many people as an introduction into abstract, down tempo into that pesky term trip hop. Jumping off the more polished point of Royalties Overdue and graphically this time 3D of Massive Attack in what Im guessing is a respects due effort on James part. To pay homage to one of the godfathers of the street impacted graphic work we now see so so much of.
With this James neatly presented the still developing components of the down tempo sound in its varying shades and degrees from the american roots and the originally completely overlooked but by the 94 release of Headz; huge Tranquility Bass they came in peace. Early "trip hop" and earlier Bleep/Bass pioneers Nightmares on Wax, Autechre with a complete nod to detroit and electro, Palm Skin as we have come to discover, dj Shadow with two brilliant early examples of his work and more.

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