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The best of Jamie Lidell

Advantages: Unique. Various styles. Incredible use of sound.
Disadvantages: Track nbr. 8

...in for a shock with Muddlin' Gear. Simply put, Multiply is pop music; Muddlin' Gear is experimental music. Another way of putting would be: Multiply is an in-your-face, clichéd, pretentious and predictable work; Muddlin' Gear is a unique, untried, and fried-jazz fest, capricious and inspired, a true masterwork. Muddlin' Gear contains 12 tracks, totalling at 53 minutes approx. The Entroscooper, the opening track, sounds like digital disintegration ...
...fantastic; Jamie's voice is fanciful and catchy. All in all, Muddlin' Gear is an eccentric oeuvre; experimental, disturbed, outrageous, far-fetched, pop-like, funky, bold, sensual, industrial, 1960's fusion, and even traditional jazz-ish. A unique album. * (Written by myself - no violation, no lifting, no breach of copyright) ...

gantzgraf 21.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Muddlin' Gear - Jamie Lidell

Before their time - the 1st album

Advantages: Inspired 10 minute epic dance songs
Disadvantages: album tracks alternate from loud song to quiet songs every time

Not many people have this album - AND THEY SHOULD. Although this lacks the full-on guitar based dance of the later albums - I feel this album is perhaps far more accommplished as a finished article. It begins with a 12 minute introduction big drum "Let's get ready to rumble" and the tempo does not stop from there. the only track which would be known is the (I hate to admit it) fantastic cover of Pearl Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper". This ...
...guitar based dance and although the guitar in this albums are a lot more muted and keyboards / samples play a larger part it can be seen that the band are proficient musicians and personally I am impressed by the 10-12 minutes tunes. For those familiar with the other albums the intentionally strained vocals where the words are forced through a wall of sound "Astral America" really enforce the sense of atmosphere into their songs - within the first ...

coleecip 29.10.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Millennium Fever - Apollo 440

The "Miles_Gurtu" experiment

Advantages: A blend of intricate beats, varied jazzy melodies and experimental soundscapes.
Disadvantages: Over-tweaking disrupts the ambience occasionally. No mainstream appeal. Some tracks don't work.

Take a Swiss-Italian ambient trance producer (Robert Miles) and blend together with an Indian percussionist (Trilok Gurtu). Add other talented musicians to the mix and allow to simmer gently, making sure you season generously with electronic sculpting and processing. The resulting album is an interesting fusion of acoustic instruments, electronic processed sounds, intricate beats, jazz and experimental soundscapes. Released in 2004, “MilesGurtu” ...
...the dream trance that he became famous for. It builds on his previous album “Organik” (released in 2001), which was his first attempt at creating an experimental sound. This album is characterised by being completely instrumental although 3 tracks feature vocal samples. Double bass, strings, guitar and rhodes performances feature frequently, creating delicate melodies whilst complex beats are generated from drums and tabla. Many tracks shift and ...

music-mad 22.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Miles_Gurtu - Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu

Slightly disappointed but still good

Advantages: some golden oldies
Disadvantages: alot of the tunes you will have on the older gatecrasher cds

When I saw this product advertised on the television I was so excited because I have all the gatecrasher albumns and I just loved the idea of a best of gatecrasher albumn but then you get the the idea of, is it worth buying it cos you will have most thesongs alreadyalbeit on 10 different albumns. So there is the first good point of this albumn, all the classics on one albumn that you can stick on, on a saturday night and dance away till your hearts ...
...tunes and some not so good tunes so like me I was tempted just to buy it off itunes and download the tunes I liked but at 99p each I found I like more than £9.99 worth of tunes so I bought the albumn. Theres some old time favourites and some current classics with some great remixes and with 3 cds you really do get your moneys worth. Its a mixture of house and dance and a little bit of trance thrown in. You can dance to this music and it really would ...

Mogette999 24.11.2009 · Read full review

Review of Gatecrasher's Club Anthems 1993-2009 [Digipak] - Various Artists

Soil Festivities - Beautiful, soothing instrumental music.

Advantages: Music to really relax to.
Disadvantages: Movement 3 breaks the mood somewhat!

...first track (movement 1) of Soil Festivities, and showed him actually playing and recording it. It started with thunder and rain, and then lots of birds and animals gathering around an African watering hole to drink. I was captivated. There are no actual animal sounds used but birds are mimicked by the synthesisers. The music is so gentle, uplifting and soothing. Layer upon layer of beautiful sounds. Very warm feeling. Completely instrumental throughout. ...
...really make synthesiser music that is full of emotion and feeling. There a 5 movements to this album. Movement 3 is less relaxing, more turbulent, and not one of my favourites. The other tracks more than make up for this. Perfect for background or upfront listening. Good for bedtime (except movement3). Highly recommended if you like relaxing instrumental music. ...

Snaplight645 14.11.2009 · Read full review

Review of Soil Festivities - Vangelis