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Member Since: Oct 22, 2005
Rank: 7
Rated 2 releases, average: 4.00
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Reviews:
Colourbox - The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme - 13-Nov-05 06:01 AM
A truly great record. It still baffles me, every four years, why this STILL is not the world cup theme on telly. It just sounds exactly like the title suggests. It is basically a huge horn riff, but the the bombastic overall effect belies a very neat arrangement. It has a fine guitar solo, and a gorgeous synth vox interlude.
The b-side 'Philip Glass' suggests where the composers were taking some of their inspiration at this time. It is a synth exploration of the minimal, trance like beauty of the famous composer's work, segued back into a reprise of the a-side.
This record is a glimpse into electronic studio music in the UK in the time before techno changed everything.
Channel One - Technicolor - 31-Oct-05 05:02 PM
Technicolor is very percussive electro, with Magic Juan getting very carried away with vocal samples (t-t-t-t-technicor!) old-skool orchestral stabs, a very detroit bassline, and a sequencer riff lifted from Kraftwerk's It's More Fun To Compute. It's a rich mix, but he gets away with it.
Thomas Köner - Aubrite - 29-Oct-05 10:12 AM
So many records are labelled ambient, when they are really just chilled, or downtempo, or pretty. This is a record of true ambience. The harsher metallic tones of Teimo and earlier albums are gone on Aubrite, the record is a deep blur of incredible bass tones, from which the vaguest music emerges, unfolding over long periods. The effect is meditative, evoking deep stillness and calm.
You will need big speakers.
Pink Elln
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Atom Heart - Elektronikkaa 1&2 / Electronique - 29-Oct-05 10:12 AM
An all time favourite, still as mysterious now as when I first saw it in Fatcat Reacords. In essence it is live trance, but the record is far more special than that would suggest. Electroniikkaa is an epic 25-odd minutes, starting as deep space ambient and soon descending into a vast, gorgeous analogue sequencer world, more evocative of classic Tangerine Dream than pure techno. That said it features perfect 808 programming typical of Atom Heart. Electronique is a similar outing but a little harder. The remixes are interesting enough but unnecesary. The two originals run at about 55 minutes so this is practically an album. There really is very little like this, Atom Heart revisited this live sound on 'B2' on Atom Heart's Very Interesting label; two more live sessions recorded acouple of years later, the second of which plays like a funky, electro version of Electroniikka.
The EP was reissued by trance label Platypus a few years back.
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