Advantages: Mini MPV, ECO2 friendly, spacious Disadvantages: None so far!!
Well 1st of March is fast approaching and Renault will be launching the new Grande Modus so thought id give a review just to give others a little more information.
The Grande Modus is a new mini MPV!!
It will be available in the following models:
1.2 Expression Grande
1.2 TCE Expression Grand
1.5 dCi 86 Expression
1.2 TCE Dynamique Grand
1.5 dCi 86 Dynamique Grand
1.6 auto Dynamique Grand
1.5 dCi 106 Dynamique Grand
Prices start from £9650
The fuel consumption across the ranges vary, but i'll give a few examples,
Grande Modus 1.2 16v expression has a combined MPG of 47.9 and the Grande Modus 1.5 DCI Dynamique has a combined MPG of 60.1. So both offering very good consumption on fuel. All variations of the Modus are all from Renaults ECO 2 range, vehicles that are offering extra low emissions to help keep ...
Advantages: Great Innovation, huge beats Disadvantages: Two tracks are overly commerical and bland
Photek's (alias Rupert Parkes) second album sees him making a giant move away from the dark mathematical drum and bass approach of his debut album ‘ModusOperandi’. Where as this previous work has seen Photek lurking in shadowy alleyways twisting and distorting noir jazz breaks into new forms, ‘Solaris’ sees Parkes striding into the sunny uplands. Everything from the sleeve art featuring blurred pictures of palm trees and airport terminals indicates that Parkes has escaped the lure of the dark side. However when an artist’s previous work has been touched by blackness it is very hard for them to fully pull away from such devilish delights. All this makes ‘Solaris’ a strange enigma of an album. Although it seems to be a million miles away from the urban decay and paranoia sonically created by ...
SidneyJames 13.08.2001
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Solaris - Photek
Advantages: good beats Disadvantages: nothing amazing
Photek have emerged with their third album 'Solaris' which is far removed from their drum n' bass beats, in fact only one track, 'infinity' could be classed as drum n' bass. The vocal talents of Robert Owens are used on the tracks 'Mine to Give' and 'Can't come down', both of which are the better tracks on the album.
There may be a few housy tracks, but even in these pieces you'll find a lot of elements which are distinctly Photek. 'Terminus', the first single, starts with these droning, Eastern-tinged bass punches only Photek knows how to create, building an excellent track which is, like many other pieces here, both serviceable for the dancefloor and for home listening.
'Junk' shows a completely new side, blending clanging percussion and acid sequencers.
'Halogen' and 'Lost blue heaven' offer heavily echoed, pounding trip ...
Product Information for "Modus Operandi - Photek" »
Product details
Title
Modus Operandi
Performer
Photek
Genre
Electronic
Sub Genre
Drum 'N' Bass/Jungle
Release Date
15/09/1997
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1997
Label / Distributor
Science / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Producer
Photek
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724384461423
Catalogue Number
CDQED 1
Additional notes
Album Notes
Photek: Rupert Parkes. Among the first drum n' bass-centered sonic sculptors to aim beyond dance-floor mastery, Photek (aka Rupert Parkes) creates tracks molded out of intense minimalist moods. MODUS boasts breakbeats with jazz sources and hip-hop structures, and a futurist vision that seeks to leap into the next millennium of rhythm while acknowledging the last twenty years. The best tracks on MODUS OPERANDI follow the trail of a piano trio through Kraftwerk's computer-game melodies, fusion-jazz grooves, and hip-hop's beat orchestration, with each influence taking the lead at various points. "Hidden Camera" is guided by a skittering drum loop that is the sturdy middle in a conversation between synthetic wind washes and electric piano chords, with a bass propping the whole contraption up. "KJZ" is a percussive and rhythmic explosion. The title-track is an almost Mo' Wax-ian hip-hop affair with a mid-tempo rim-shot groove laid behind a soul-jazz keyboard composition. Transferred to the dance-floor, these tracks could be underground jams of the year. MODUS OPERANDI's ace-in-the-hole is its ability to cross over to the living room.
Album Reviews
NME (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) - Ranked #39 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll. Rolling Stone (9/18/97, p.108) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...[Rupert] Parkes arranges break beats like a bop drummer gone drum and bass....deftly translates '70s jazz fusion and '80s Detroit techno into a blueprint for a new, more expansive drum-and-bass architecture..." Musician (10/97, p.88) - "...an exhilirating ride through strange territory....Photek's rhythms jerk spasmodically, while fragmented echoes and gripping noises zoom overhead like an invading army. Photek's vision is clear and cold, and would make George Orwell proud..." Melody Maker (9/20/97, p.48) - "...a sonic representation of a Samurai sword technique..." NME (9/13/97, p.53) - 7 (out of 10) - "...MODUS OPERANDI will undoubtedly be hailed as a landmark of `intelligent' jungle in some quarters, and rightly so....don't expect to warm to it with...ease. Because, like most landmarks, it is carved out of cold stone." Option (11-12/97, p.113) - "...Photek seems in search of higher meaning, taking hard, cold beats, peppering them with machine-generated squawks, bleeps and waves and striving to say something with these noises substituted for word..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Hidden Camera
2.
Smoke Rings
3.
Aleph 1
4.
124
5.
Axiom
6.
Trans 7
7.
Modus Operandi
8.
KJZ
9.
Fifth Column
10.
Minotaur
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