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Mergi's groups (11)
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Reviews:
Afro Celt Sound System - Release - 14-May-06 10:52 AM
The A-side never did grow on me. It's just unorganized house music imo. Instead of being soothing or groovy it's getting on my nerves.
The B-side on the other hand is something my ear did catch, and will keep on catching in the future. Bi-Polar turns the whole thing into a dubby bhangra style piece. The vocals fits perfectly in this environment. Highly enjoyable track on those occasions when you need to chill out.
Juno Reactor - Shango - 09-Jun-05 01:05 PM
This would've been a great record if they had chosen not to add the Nitrogen tracks. Seriously, they're brilliantly useless if one already owns the Nitrogen 12" and Part I is also for some reason totally messed up due to the fact that they've removed the intro ambience. Solaris is, in my opinion, the track that should have gone onto the record instead of the Nitrogen tracks.
Steve Reich - Drumming / Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ / Six Pianos - 23-Jan-05 01:31 PM
This is certainly a very interesting yet monotone release. So how did I come to hear of Steve Reich? Actually a friend thought it good for me to have a listen to some real minimalistic arrangements instead of hammering 4x4 beats which I tend to listen to very much (psy/goa-trance), so he gave me a copy of this one. I never thought it would be this good, and the remarkable thing about this release is the fact that they've done everything manually which makes it all sound extremly unique (I'd better go check his other releases as well). From hand drums, marimbas, glockenspiel, and pianos, manipulating it in forever loops. And it all sounds so perfect, no mistakes whatsoever. Sometimes they make a section of a track go nonsynchronized on purpose, and that's for example 4 people on separate hand drums all of them not synchronized, totally brilliant. They always seem to have one pattern each, which is mixed together into different rhythmical sessions. With 4 (or more at times) artists and tracks with lengths of 20+ minutes the arrangements can take on a lot of different soundshapes, yet it always stays true to some sort of basic pattern be it a melody or rhythm or both which is repeated into infinity.
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