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Hold your Colour: Pendulum

Advantages: Awesome Sounds!
Disadvantages: Some songs lack the magic

...Tracks such as Hold your colour blew my mind. Tarantula...a great collaboration with $pyda! These guys produce some amazing sounds, mixtures of distortion, heavy bass beats and some incredible drum work really come together to make some sounds you'll almost certainly not be able to help yourself raving to. This stuff just gets you moving! whether you can help it or not! If you like groups such as Prodigy or Sub-focus...you'll love these guys. ...

m4tt_king 09.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hold Your Colour - Pendulum

Timeless Classics

Advantages: Good range of drum and bass tunes. Lots of classics
Disadvantages: Bad if you are after the current style of drum and bass or dirty tunes.

...As a listener/dj of drum and bass, i recognised a few of these tunes and thought why not. There are a lot of timeless tunes all mixed by Goldie. Notice i say mixed, so if you are expecting the tunes to be played on their own, unmixed, in their original state then this is not for you. It is recorded as a constant mix. This cd is mainly more down tempo, more mellow drum and bass. So if you are expecting dirty tunes or grime, then again, this is not ...
...Warhead, which as people into drum and bass will know, is a grimey tune. Anyway, I can appreciate this cd, although not mixed as well as a lot of mixes i have heard, it is a good cd. A lot of the drops are spot on. For example I really like when Goldie mixes Barcelona by D.Kay & Epsilon/Stamina MC into Brown Paper Bag by Roni Size. Here is the track listings of both cds: Disc: 1 1. Inner City Life - Goldie & The Metalheadz 2. Terminator - Rufige ...

plack_uk 25.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Drum 'n' Bass Arena - The Classics (Mixed By Goldie) - Various Artists

In Silico

Advantages: Nice, fast dance music that'll will get you moving
Disadvantages: Doesn't "Fell" the same as their last effort...More mainstream :(

...raving all over the place in a trance, but it just seems different./ The sounds seem smoother and better blended though, there aren't any real grinding bass line, But it's still fast, frantic stuff! If you loved the first album and other singles they put out, you have to listen to this! Its good, but not as good as previous efforts. But fans will love it and its a good place to start if your just discovering the fantastic sounds these guys produce ...

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Review of In Silico - Pendulum

Timeless?.... Well.... in parts....

Advantages: Truly memorable, superior drum n bass tracks. Soulful and original.
Disadvantages: Overlong, which increases repetition and reduces impact.

...Me Released in 1995, Timeless is a classic debut drum n bass album from Goldie. The style is smooth, soulful and occasionally dark and menacing. What I love about this album is the variety of songs, the excellent samples and the evolving beats. To add to this are the touches of originality present in certain tunes, creating one of the most memorable albums I have ever heard. Unfortunately, most of the tracks are fairly long and, unless you are ...
...me this truly is a timeless drum n bass masterpiece. The beat is addictive, the vocals are beautifully soulful and the track is tinged with a helpless despairing atmosphere. "Pressure" has a gloriously dark sample, but it was only 2 weeks ago that I realized where the sample actually came from. It is ripped straight from the 1989 John Woo movie called The Killer [an ultra violent Hong Kong classic which is well worth checking out if you want to ...

music-mad 31.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Timeless - Goldie

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 ...

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Review of Miles_Gurtu - Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu