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If you are familiar with Jamie's most recent release, Multiply (Warp Records, 2005), then you might be 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 ... Read review
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Muddlin' Gear -
Ex-Brighton resident Jamie Lidell makes the return to his solo material, hooking up to the
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legendary Warp imprint by way of Spymania; early outlet for the IDM subterfuge of Squarepusher. Demented electronics abound in the early stages of the album, stu...
Muddlin' Gear -
Ex-Brighton resident Jamie Lidell makes the return to his solo material, hooking up to the
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legendary Warp imprint by way of Spymania; early outlet for the IDM subterfuge of Squarepusher. Demented electronics abound in the early stages of the album, stu...
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.
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(Written by myself - no violation, no lifting, no breach of copyright) ...
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Advantages: One of the greatest albums of 2005 Disadvantages: Nothing like his previous work
...The second album from producer/vocalist JamieLidell is absolutely stunning and, if it was not for the corporate nature of the UK music industry at the current point in time, he should be receiving major critical acclaim.
This is JamieLidell's second release after the experimental 'noise-tronica' of his debut, "Muddlin' Gear". While that was complex, and difficult to listen to, it sat well beside other Warp records artists like Squarepusher and Chris Clark. This album, however, is completely different.
It is true that JamieLidell, for this album, wears his influences on his sleeve; part Jackie Wilson, part Stevie Wonder, part Percy Sledge, part James Brown. In fact, in many respects, this album does sound like it could have been at least, if not recorded, in the 70s or early 80s. Yet, on closer listen, the production proves this...
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Album Reviews: Q (12/00, p.126) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Grey, harsh and collage-heavy. At a pinch...it resembles 1977-vintage industrial music....Music for as brave new world..."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Entr Scooper
2.: Said Dram Scam
3.: Ill Shamb Ata
4.: La Scappin Rood
5.: In Inphidelik
6.: Silent Why
7.: Da Doo Doo
8.: Daddy's Car
9.: Untitled
10.: Cop It Suite
11.: Droon 99
12.: Daddy No Lie
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