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Caretaker, The - We'll All Go Riding On A Rainbow - 23-Feb-05 07:34 AM
The music on this CD has been described as "re-processed 1930s ballroom music".
The re-processing I feel adds an echoed ambience, especially on the horn instruments (trombone, oboe, sax, et al) of the sampled pieces, giving it a spacey, slow-paced, melancholic feel, and it gives the impression of what a haunted ballroom occupied by ghosts stuck in a time warp would sound like if you were listening in from another room (especially on 'Stardust' - consisting of an American lounge-singer reflectively singing in the past-tense about the memories of a lost love); you probably wouldn't be in high spirits.
Listening to the entire album will make you feel somewhat unsettled, and perhaps even amplify in the listener a sense of creepy loneliness - the way you felt when the Cheshire Cat left Alice alone to fend for herself in the forests of Wonderland and you could still hear his fading, echoed singing until it gradually fell silent and dark. Certainly not music for dancing to or for playing to friends in the car, it certainly leaves a lasting impression on the listener; a solemn regard for the music of yesteryear. This is the kind of CD you would listen to if you were watching Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (it's by "The Caretaker", afterall!).
Cautiously recommended for grandmothers.
R.A. The Rugged Man - 06-Nov-04 12:21 PM
Also appeared in a 15-minute featurette accompanying director Frank Henenlotter around old shooting scenes on the DVD version of 1981 horror film "Basket Case"
Sven Väth - Mind Games - 31-Mar-04 10:36 PM
When this CD is held under adequate lighting, the thin ring of "junk data" that prevents the playing/copying of this disc on PC/Mac can be made out, which you can then very carefully block out with a fine, dark texta, rendering the disc playable/copyable! (This is not a condonation of piracy!)
Plastikman - Recycled Plastik - 03-Feb-04 03:41 AM
This classic techno mini-album contains the famous Spastik, which is a fairly simplistic track consisting basically of stuttering snare roles over a kick drum. An instant classic when it was released in 1993, this record, probably more than any other, cemented Hawtin's position as a techno innovator.
Luke Slater - Freek Funk - 16-Dec-03 06:20 PM
Arguably the best techno album ever. It is diverse, and boasts a range of styles: from ambient (Score One, Score Two), downtempo (Walking The Line) and hard (Filter 2), to breakbeat (Bless Bless), uplifting techno (Love) and experimental electro (Are You There?). Highly, highly recommended and needs to be in every electronica aficionado's collection. 5/5!
