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Member Since: Dec 28, 2003
Rank: 13
Rated 35 releases, average: 4.77
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Bluetech - Prima Materia - 21-Aug-08 05:20 PM
I challenge anyone who even remotely likes dub (or future jazz) to try listening to this--either in the foreground or the background--without bobbing their head even once. If I was allowed only a single adjective with which to describe this album as a whole, I believe that adjective would be "catchy." I did a lot more than just bob my head... I danced wildly as though I were conducting an orchestra and using my entire body, not just my arms, to conduct it. It's just that kind of album. Seriously, there are moments of almost classical virtuosity that had me moving my head and arms like Charles Winchester III listening to Rachmaninoff.
Having said that, it is worth it just for track 3, the remix of Sounds from the Ground's "Triangle."
Mike Oldfield - The Orchestral Tubular Bells - 23-Jul-08 07:58 PM
Far be it from me to criticize the illustrious Royal Philharmonic, but sadly, this is really terrible. I don't think it's a question of the performance, but rather the medium. It's just not right without the proper variety of instruments. I never thought I would hear a version of Tubular Bells that falls flat, but this really does. This rendition is painfully dull. In a sense I guess you could call this an accomplishment in that they actually managed to make this masterpiece of composition boring.
Adham Shaikh - Realignment - 12-Oct-06 04:51 AM
Oh man oh man, this is like the *best* ambient album you never heard of. This stuff is so tripped out, but in a soothing, relaxing, centering kind of way; not a weirded out kind of way.
But also, this whole piece was *way* ahead of its time, yet also has flavors from the very bedrock of ambient, such as Tangerine Dream's Phaedra and even Zeit, and I even detected some flavors from 80s New Age spacemusic.
Even first track, which is a perkier, dancey number, was pretty cutting edge, with lots of intricate melodic bleeping that was quite remarkable for 1993, and still damn good today.
This is the perfect, I mean PERFECT chill album to actually use for the purpose of chilling, for coming down from the energy of a night filled with, say, highly driven Goa.
For God's sake, just get it, and check out Adham's other stuff too.
Mickey Hart - At The Edge - 14-Jun-06 02:31 AM
Really, *any* fan of soft, soul-soothing, expansive ambient music will simply adore this album. No matter the fact that it's not exactly "electronica" (whatever the hell that means anymore), it is nonetheless every bit as rich and complex and elevated as any favorite ambient album you care to name, in that transdimensional-experience-kind-of-way that all ambient fans seek.
No matter what ails you, this music *will* help to heal you, if not completely propel you into that perfect place of peaceful ecstasy, or perhaps ecstatic peace, depending upon where you're coming from.
A must-have (albeit a bit hard to find) for anyone who truly understands the power of music to move the heart, to break it free from any space which it may get stuck.
Youth - Calibrate Your Intuition - 09-Apr-06 06:34 AM
Too bad this is kind of tough to find. It's really quite a choice collection of nice modern psy/goa/whatever. Imaginative, creative, and well produced tracks; most with a nice DEEP bass pulse. And WHO is this Dominique Le Vack of Jalal Chckara Orchestra?! I MUST have more!
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