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Scruff for beginners

Advantages: A great starter scruff album
Disadvantages: good, but not as good as keep it solid steel

Its sort of electronic funky jazz. Mostly. Lots of other bits get a look in here and there. I found this album by mistake. In fact I found ninja tune by mistake, hunting U.N.K.L.E mp3s found me Coldcut, which led me onto ninja tune. But enough of that, I could talk about the random ways I find good tunes for hours. Of course, downloading mp3s is illegal and amoral. You might as well put babies on spikes, you criminal. So. The album. I haven't ...
...Not as long as some, but not the cheeky shortness of system of a down's latest offering. 13 tracks, of which some are great and the rest are fantastic. The one about the whale tells a good story. You'll find yourself listening and trying to remember where you recognise the songs from. Adverts. Adverts are full of ninja tune songs, because they sound good and often have lots of looped bits that last about as long as an add. This isn't as much of ...

robachamings1 24.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Trouser Jazz - Mr. Scruff

I am tha TERRORIS'

Advantages: A classic
Disadvantages: None I can think of

This is a classic.Another great Ninja Tunes release.If you like your alternative hip-hop or just straight rap then this ones for youAt firt I thought that the Russian thing was just a gimmick,but no he really is.I've seen him live just the once but it was memorable(suprising,given the amount of HERBAL cigarettes floting about).The beats are well constructed and catchy but not commercial sounding.All my friends have got the album and you know somone's ...
...tha terroris,terroris.."etc.This album is in the same vein as RjD2's first album,non typical hip-hop beats with guest dj's rappin over them.Guests feature the excellent British rapper Skinnyman and Sara Jones.Stand out tracks aplenty but TERRORIST and Life From The Itchy Side are two tunes you should not be without. ...

rudebwoy 01.10.2004 · Read full review
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Review of USSR (Life From The Other Side) - DJ Vadim

It never sounds the same when the red light is on!

Advantages: Some classic tunes and great live shows
Disadvantages: Slightly let down by the hype

...dissapointed on 1st listen of sound mirrors. The album just doesn't seem to have any stand out tracks and it washes over you very quickly, not in a good way though, non of the tracks had hooks and some just droned me into the ground. I thought i would give it a second chance but after hearing it for the second time after 10 minutes i had had enough and it went in the never to be played again pile. This is a real big shame as there was a lot of hype ...

nekoneko 08.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sound Mirrors - Coldcut

Sampling as music in "Bricolage"

Advantages: Experimental and occasionally creative sampling
Disadvantages: Some tracks become repetitive. Others simply don't work.

“Bricolage” released in 1997 is Amon Tobin’s first album using his own name (he had previously released “Adventures in Foam” under the name Cujo). A quick flick through the basic album sleeve yields only a definition: “Bricolage: a process which uses given material, given signifiers (a text, a chord sequence) but which creates from these new signifiers, a new reality which is not given. ” and a quote from the book “The Savage Mind” by Claude Lévi-Strauss: ...
...always puts something of himself into it”. Sampling is the concept on which the album is created and although using existing melodic and beat samples is not very original, Amon Tobin succeeds in creating something new by processing, cutting up and rearranging a diverse range of sounds. He makes frequent use of jazz and drum n bass samples, but we also have, for example, Hawaiian sounding guitars on “Yasawas” and samba drums on “Chomp samba”. The ...

music-mad 06.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bricolage - Amon Tobin

All Hail The Sample Master!

Advantages: Very different, highly inventive
Disadvantages: Conventional music becomes less exciting after this! Some tracks are atmospheric "noise" rather than music

...reviewed this on Epinion] Permutation is the 2nd album by Amon Tobin released in 1998. This album feels more refined than his 1st, Bricolage, and is thus superior in my opinion. The album consists of 12 diverse tracks of sample based music, the majority of which are beat-intensive. A wide range of styles and tempos are present, ranging from slow, soothing jazzy melodies to dark, frenetic drum n bass. There are no vocals in any of the tracks so the ...
...keep your attention. There are some who would argue that sampling is lazy, unoriginal and deserves less credit than "real" music - indeed there is a lot of uninspiring sample based music out there. However, in my opinion, this album represents sampling at its finest, turning it into an art form worthy of recognition in its own right. What makes this album so great, in my opinion, is the meticulous attention to detail and the inventiveness in most ...

music-mad 31.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Permutation - Amon Tobin