Programmed

Amazon.com
Future-jazz visionary Carl Craig's Innerzone collaboration project highlights his pedigree as a producer, arranger, and all-around genius, ranking him with the likes of Stepney and Jones. Craig has created an album that genuinely manages to break new ground, merging the musical past with the technological future, blurring the textures of the electronic and the organic. "Manufactured Memories" like "Blakula" sets the abstract pace, as breaksmith Fransico Mora executes immense live drum technique (as he does throughout) within an electronic framework. Like some lost studio session tapes of Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, and Max Brennan, "Basic Math" and "Timing" are avant-fusion workouts. As some plunder and exploit, claiming originality, Craig makes no secret of the inspiration drawn from the others' works (including the superb reinterpretation of the Stylistics' "People Make the World Go Round"). By borrowing, reconstituting, and making his own, he has created something very unique and utterly sublime. --Amazon.co.uk

From Jazziz
In the awkward embrace between jazz and electronic dance music, the same compatibility problems keep popping up. Either the music operates within too narrow a rhythmic sphere to inspire genuine improvisation or the harmonic content isn't interesting enough to hold the attention of jazz players or the mood remains locked in a rigid, one-dimensional frame that's resistant to all manner of crashing and bashing. Two 1999 releases eluded these traps - Tim Hagans' Animation/Imagination and Detroit techno maverick Carl Craig's collaboration with pianist Craig Taborn and percussionist Francisco Mora Catlett, the Innerzone Orchestra. Where Hagans' outfit played like Miles Davis' Silent Way band parachuting into the fourth hour of an all-night rave, DJ Craig figured out how to utilize electronically derived patterns to launch agitated, absorbing, in-the-moment musical conversations. These dialogs between worlds had the skronk of jazz fusion but none of the pretension, the repetitive throb of electronic dance music with little of the residual numbing mindlessness. Such delicate balances make Programmed a landmark, of sorts. It's one of the very few electronic records in which improvisation is more than mere window dressing, where the exchanges between the beatkeepers and the hired jazz hands feel genuinely open and spirited, if not spontaneous. Taborn glances at Joe Zawinul (the burbling synths of "Monsters") and Herbie Hancock during his Fender-Rhodes period (the refreshingly un-basic "Basic Math"), but his best forays exhibit a knack for subverting the status quo and a command of the techno vocabulary that enables him to take big polyrhythmic risks and prevail. While not all of Programmed involves Taborn, his tracks have enough juice to suggest the end of lurching and hesitant electro-jazz and the start of a whole vibey new thing.

--Tom Moon, JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc.

Programmed,Innerzone Orchestra,Astralwerks,Club/Dance,Dance Music,Detroit Techno,Electronic,Jazz-House,Pop

Average customer rating: The Sound Bites Just as Good Hats off to dub-masters Joshua Elrod and Craig Allen! Worthy companion of the Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions The Best Dub Yet. peacemaker

Disassemble Dub Phase Selector Sound Manufacturer: Roir ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Reggae | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Dub from the Secret Vaults Exploring The Dangers Of Trojan Dub Massive: Chapter One New Heavy Dub Side of the Moon ASIN: B00000JMKI Release Date: 1999-08-03

Tracks:

1. Sinewave
2. MSP 2004
3. Sci Fi Dub
4. LK Pryr
5. Lefty's Choice
6. Dubstep
7. Factory Preset
8. Subpart J.
9. Refraction
10. Honey Dub
11. Jackson Park
12. Moving Coil
13. Meditation
14. Halo and Snake
15. Version

Album Description

As most rock & roll bands started in someone's garage or basement or living room, Phase Selector Sound are two (ex?) punk rockers working out of their ad hoc home studios (heavily influenced by Radio Shack equipment). They create a powerful roots dub that is hypnotic, mesmerizing and trance-inducing. Very much in keeping with ROIR's long history of releasing the absolute best in dub by such artists as Lee Perry, Niney The Observer, Mikey Dread, Mad Professor, Black Uhuru, Badawi, Bill Laswell, Dub Syndicate, Ras Michael, Scientist, Yabby You, Oku Onuora --- and the list goes on! Produced arranged and mixed by Phase Selector Sound.

Customer Reviews:

The Sound Bites Just as Good.......2007-03-10

Pleasant background cocktail party music with reggae/dub beats, I purchased it liking the sound bites, but there is nothing more to the album than the soundbites. Never does it get dense or goes anyplace surprising. Cover is better than music. Groups like St. Germain, or the various Parisian club mix albums, like Paris Under a Groove or Hotel Costas series are far better, and I wouldn't really recommend those either,unless you want "chill" coctail party music. Still I don't regret purchase becasue sometimes I just want a groove and to otherwise basically ignore kind of hip "muzak" while I do something else than listen, which is what I would consider this good for. I love that Summer in Paris, Hotel Costas, thing, but much prefer Orb to any of this to fill a similar need in my music. Actually, Orb can be brilliant at times. A couple maybe three Orb albums are superb. I took best tracks from three of them and made one great burned CD. Truth is for "chill" purpose,not that that expression conveys very much to me,I've never heard anything in 30 years that comes close to Discrete Music by Eno or Evening Star by Fripp and Eno. Compared to greats like those ... Well for a "chill" relaxing, after work space, they've never been touched to my knowledge. Sorry if lumping them in with this offends anybody. "Chill" never really made all that much sense to me as a label for music anyway. Sorry if this isnt' what you're looking for.

Hats off to dub-masters Joshua Elrod and Craig Allen!.......2005-09-29

I can only agree with previous reviewers, this is the best dub album I've ever heard, all categories... The coolest thing is that it bridges roots dub with modern dub like no other. The great Hi-fidelity dub series, for example, does on occasions reach the level of Phase Selector Sound. At the same time this album would easily match any dub release blood&fire could possibly throw at you! These guys takes dub to the next level. The production has a fantastic old-school feel to it, with a setup that is simple yet profound. This is truly beautiful music and the album doesn't contain one single tedious moment, every track stands out against the others. Phase Selector Sound kicks off at the highest possible level and stay there throughout the entire album. There's no end to the superlatives this album merits.

Worthy companion of the Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions.......2005-07-20

This is, without a doubt, the best original dub offering I've purchased - online or off - bar none.

In the tradition of the kings of dub (like Augustus Pablo, Mad Scientist, Lee Perry, or the Professor), this album retains very strong ties to its roots (you'll hear snatches of old Upsetter tracks, along with some other nods to those old school influential artists).

At the same time, the album has a very modern feel to it, along the lines of the excellent Hi-Fidelity Dub releases (1-4). There's no question that this album is strictly roots, but the tracks all feel like they have had updating for the downbeat era.

The most shocking thing to me is that this album was released 6 years ago, and I've only discovered it in 2005! Do yourself a favour and purchase it straight away...before it goes out of print (come on...how many other products can you find that have ALL customer reviews giving it 5 out of 5 stars? ;).

The Best Dub Yet........2003-04-01

I've heard a lot of dub, and I own a lot of dub, but I've got to say that this is the best dub yet, I mean the entire CD. Personally this CD is #1 in my book so far. It's worth buying at almost any price. So if you like dub this is the one for you. I can't wait to see what he put out next.

peacemaker.......2001-11-14

Ideal proportion of "ridim", bass and sounds of mind and heart.

Average customer rating: Bent Interesting.....yet different Outstanding Bent: programmed to love Bent And Wigged

Programmed to Love Bent Manufacturer: Ministry of Sound Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Ambient Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Ariels The Everlasting Blink Later: Compiled and Mixed by Bent Intercept! The Garden ASIN: B00005QG9S Release Date: 2001-10-23

Tracks:

1. Exercise 1
2. Private Road
3. Cyclons in Love
4. I Love My Man
5. I Remember Johnny
6. Swollen
7. Welly Top Mary
8. A Ribbon For My Hair
9. Invisible Pedestrian
10. A New Wig For Me
11. Always

Amazon.com

Though they've been compared to everyone from Air to Radiohead, Nottingham, England's Bent are mostly defined by their determination to sound like everyone. With that goal in mind, they've stuffed Programmed to Love with an array of samples from vocalists and snippets from jazz, rock, hip-hop, and God knows what else. Stylistically they flirt with downtempo, but just as often the music winds up further afield, embracing trip-hop, ambient, and post-club anthems. "Private Road" mixes a chilly female vocal with cracked samples and a swaying rhythm, but later the album falls into sillier, Lemon Jelly-like territory with "I Remember Johnny." It all works, making for a record that stays fresh with repeated listenings. Besides, Bent have received the ultimate 21st-century compliment already, as the vaguely big-beat thump of "Invisible Pedestrian" has shown up in a car commercial. With that sort of cachet, can mainstream success be far behind? If not, so be it, as Love finds room for more imaginative fun while being more accessible than anything in recent memory. --Matthew Cooke

Album Description

Now available in the U.S. from Ministry Of Sound USA. Bent garnered critical praise in almost all of the UK press. Fans of Air, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Dusted and the like are sure to love this album. 11 tracks total. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Bent.......2006-03-15

Music has a great aftertaste. One of the few albums that i can listen to over and over.

Interesting.....yet different.......2005-05-12

I was looking through my local music store perusing through the B Section and came across Bent: Programmed To Love CD. I said, 'what the heck', and purchased this CD. Until today I have not had a chance to listen to this album and I am both surprised and intrigued by this group's form of music. What is most enticing is that Bent does not come under one genre or form of music but takes from the pop, new age, easy listening as well as trance fusion and brings it all together into one package.
What one must have when they listen to this type of music is patience and understanding...patience is needed because to fully understand and enjoy this CD one must listen to the whole album more than once. It grows on you, as it did me.
This is 'Bent's' first album and I will be endeavouring to get their others soon on order from Amazon. The picks from this CD for me was 'Chocolate Wings' and 'Invisible Pedestrian'.

Outstanding.......2004-09-28

After repeated listenings, I just don't tire of this album. There is always something new to discover.

Bent: programmed to love.......2004-05-07

This CD was brutal to the extent that I can only consider it obscene. I can only help in aiding the people of the world by encouraging them to live their lives free of ever having to have suffered it.

Bent And Wigged.......2004-02-18

Okay, so they're not terribly original. Okay, so listening to Bent can devolve into playing a game of Spot The Sample (they seem to like Nana Mouskouri a lot). They're no less enjoyable for all that, though; that they sound like a lot of other similarly-inclined outfits shouldn't stop anyone from checking them out (they seem to like Yello a lot). They have a knack for combining lovely musical passages with absurdist humor, and they don't sound like they are trying incredibly hard, which is good (they seem to like Telex a lot). My Major Gripe Department admonishes, however, that even the most absurd ideas are subject to overkill (they seem to like 'Gilligan's Island' a lot). Hence, as enjoyable as tracks like 'I Remember Johnny', 'Invisible Passenger', and especially 'New Wig For Me' are, they'd be twice as good at around half their length- -which is about where the songs' punchlines begin to lose their impact and the absurdity factor- -Bent's manifest raison d'etre- -becomes cloying (they seem to like Hawkwind a lot). But what the heck, a good joke is always worth hearing again. And check out that hidden track (they seem to like bathos a lot).

Average customer rating: Nothing unique but still worthy of purchase Lethal : "Programmed" "Stealing the rain from your thunder" Progressive Metal Played With Deadly Precision If you love early Queensryche...

Programmed Lethal Manufacturer: Metal Blade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Poison Seed Victims of Deception Ghost Opera Nightmare World Distant Thunder ASIN: B000001CAR Release Date: 1997-02-11

Tracks:

1. Fire In Your Skin
2. Programmed
3. Plan Of Peace
4. Another Day
5. Arrival
6. What They've Done
7. Obscure The Sky
8. Immune
9. Pray For Me
10. Killing Machine

Customer Reviews:

Nothing unique but still worthy of purchase.......2007-07-18

This band should entice fans of old Queensryche, Lizzy Borden and Iron Maiden to go and get this release by Lethal. It is straight ahead melodic power metal. Nothing fancy or edge of your seat musical diversity, but still catchy and heavy at the same time. The track, Obscure the Sky, is one of my faves. The singer is an almost clone of Queensryche's Geoff Tate and a little of singer Lizzy Borden. Throw in some guitar riffs of Iron Maiden and there you have it.

Lethal : "Programmed".......2005-02-10

***** - FIVE STARS
===================

First off, I've only heard this once. It's without question a 5 star effort. If you like old-school Heavy Metal, with Maiden / Queensryche / or Fates Warning influences, you'll absolutely love Lethal's "Programmed"...

These guys are not a clone band either. They play very convincingly, and although there are many early-era Queensryche influences here, they've managed to make it their own sound very well in my opinion. They're simply too impressive to be considered a clone band....

I've always been a huge Queensryche fan, and like every other headbanger from the 80's, I loved "Operation Mindcrime". I must say that Conception's "Programmed" is the next best thing in my book. The resemblance is remarkable, and the power that Conception displays here will take you right back to the golden days of true Heavy Metal....

This is a MUST PURCHACE!!!!

UP THE IRONS!!!

"Stealing the rain from your thunder".......2004-04-27

I picked up this CD from a used bargain bin and found the veritable diamond in the rough. From the first track to the last, I was floored. Amazing guitar, songwriting with plenty of depth, and a singer whose voice is off the Richter! Tom Mallicoat sounds as identical to Queensryche's Geoff Tate as one can imagine. In fact, his voice may be slightly more powerful if such a thing is possible. The music is also very Queensryche. Every track here is stellar! The 6:16 "Another Day" may be the standout track as it combines the beauty of the metal ballad with the explosive power of metal, but there is nothing weak here. I can't say enough about this album. Anyone who likes metal with substance whether it be Queensryche, Helloween, Iron Maiden, Metal Church and other such bands will never regret purchasing Lethal's Programmed.

Progressive Metal Played With Deadly Precision.......2002-08-10

Many people, upon first listen, would shriek "'Ryche clones" afterwards. I would agree to a point. Programmed does have tha Rage For Order/The Warning-era sound to it, but it does more: it improves upon it.

Lethal side-steps a manhole that many progressive metal bands fall into. They don't try to make a Gordian Knot out of sound. Yes there are displays of technical derring-do a plenty, but what is kept to the forefront on Programmed is the sense of song. There is no mere clinic to be found here. What you will find is a prog metal album for those who couldn't care less about prog metal. This is power chord mathematics for the layman.

Programmed is definitely more immediate than Lethal's later record Poison Seed, but lacks Poison Seed's warmth and quieter, more introspective moments. Both albums take you to the same rewarding destination by traveling different roads.

Programmed isn't the perfect prog metal release as its technology still leaves me with a slight chill, but yet it redeems itself via the Tate-proud vocals of Tom Malicoat, which cry out from within the circuitry like a human soul trapped inside an android. The title track to me is the record's biggest triumph, and is where Malicoat really makes his presence known. On "Programmed" he and the rest of Lethal deliver a melodic and moving assault on behalf of humankind by using the machine's own weapons against itself.

I'm not at sixes and sevens over Programmed, although I was far from disappointed either. While I didn't find a a rare gem, fool's gold this wasn't.

If you love early Queensryche..........2001-12-06

then this is a MUST for you.
At the same time Queensryche was doing Empire, Lethal decided to rekindle the feel of Queensryche ep/Warning era. Unfornately Lethal never progressed to their breakthrough album but their 2nd album Poison Seed years later starts with a grunge like ( AIC ) sound but good production and catchy lyrics will make you continue to listen through the album. If you like Tom Mallicoat's voice you'll want to pick Poison Seed up too.

The 4 star is only because of the lack of production sound, but since it seems they were looking for a 1985 sound in 1990.

Note: rated against using Rage for Order < 5 stars > as the standard of Queensryche sound alike/sytle bands.

Average customer rating: It is what it is. Carl Craig always shoots twice one of my favorite albums of the year My personal album of the year... i like this cd

Programmed Innerzone Orchestra Manufacturer: Astralwerks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art Faces & Phases onsumotahasheeat Collective Designer Music VI ASIN: B00000JXS9 Release Date: 1999-08-24

Tracks:

1. Wrong Number
2. Manufactured Memories
3. The Beginning Of The End
4. Programmed
5. Eruption
6. Monsters
7. Blakula
8. People Make The World Go 'Round
9. Architecture
10. Basic Math
11. Timing
12. Galaxy
13. At Les
14. Bug In The Bass Bin

Amazon.com

Future-jazz visionary Carl Craig's Innerzone collaboration project highlights his pedigree as a producer, arranger, and all-around genius, ranking him with the likes of Stepney and Jones. Craig has created an album that genuinely manages to break new ground, merging the musical past with the technological future, blurring the textures of the electronic and the organic. "Manufactured Memories" like "Blakula" sets the abstract pace, as breaksmith Fransico Mora executes immense live drum technique (as he does throughout) within an electronic framework. Like some lost studio session tapes of Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, and Max Brennan, "Basic Math" and "Timing" are avant-fusion workouts. As some plunder and exploit, claiming originality, Craig makes no secret of the inspiration drawn from the others' works (including the superb reinterpretation of the Stylistics' "People Make the World Go Round"). By borrowing, reconstituting, and making his own, he has created something very unique and utterly sublime. --Amazon.co.uk

Customer Reviews:

It is what it is........2001-12-11

So many records found under the various subgenres of "electronic music" describe themselves as "jazz-based" or "jazzy." Put most of them on, and your speakers will reveal nothing more than a façade of what jazz truly is--the music is more often simply a nice background for eating dinner or making love. How refreshing when one artist comes out with a fusion that simply blows your mind and shatters all expectations!

Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra project did just that with this 1999 release. I found "Programmed" to be quite accessible, yet rewarding as well. Craig is obviously fascinated with the rhythmic possibilities afforded by jazz, and uses them to full measure. This is not your 4/4 Dave Clarke or Laurent Garnier techno madness! "Programmed" relates to Jazz in the cohesive sense (the way live drumming, programming, etc. work together) rather than improvisation over modes or chord progressions.

Highlights for me included furious percussive workout and erie synths of "Manufactured Memories," the sci-fi funk of "Monsters," and the aural construction of "Architecture," a collaboration with Richie Hawtin (Plastikman). And how can you not mention "Bug In the Bassbin," which wraps things up stunningly. "Programmed" is an amazing and infinitely rewarding effort from Carl Craig.

Carl Craig always shoots twice.......2000-04-09

Every week,you read/heard/see about a band/artist which just have done an album which is supposed to be a re-interpretation or mix of the different black style of music (jazz, funk, etc...) I am no authority for those genres but there is only one disc on which i agree with the official reviewer: innerzone "programmed" Altough it is a concept album (explore every music style from Black culture through techno) you never feel like listening to a "Barnum disc" or some kind of compilation.It is in fact a very coherent album filled with excellent titles. A very good CD, however it is not a match for Carl Craig precedent masterpiece (more songs about...)

one of my favorite albums of the year.......1999-12-02

this is one of the best new CDs I've had the privelage of discovering this year. aside from techno, detroit is home to some of the world most talanted jazz players. and this cd shows what can happen when the two scenes come together. many euro acts try to emulate american jazz techno and soul styles. but this cd is the real deal.

p.s.i hope innerzone brings more soul bebop and hip hop vocalists along next time.

My personal album of the year..........1999-11-13

...and believe me, I've purchased a good amount of music so far. But out of what I've purchased since Jan. 1st, this is the album that has received the most play. Carl Craig is truly a world unto himself; only an artist of his caliber and his sense of ambience and rhythm could pull off a project.

And it's the music that speaks for itself. There isn't a weak moment in the bunch. "Blakula", as others have mentioned, is the unequivocal masterpiece, as sonic synths give way to violins and a smooth bassline. Also of note are two distinctive covers: "People Make The World Go Round", the Stylistics classic, redone with a masterfully arranged string section and great guitar and vox by Paul Randolph, and "Bug In The Bass Bin", a remake of Craig's 1992 classic tune that has since become a staple of breakbeat music. Here, acoustic instrumentation gives the song a whole new dimension.

Much respect to his co-contributors, esp. former Sun Ra percussionist Francisco Mora, keyboardist Craig Taborn, bassist/vocalist Paul Randolph, and Plastikman (who assists on the chilling, Blade Runner-influenced "Architecture".)

I don't think any else needs to be said. This is a brilliant album that, unfortunately, won't make much noise in a stagnant music scene dominated by bubblegum drivel. But for those with triple-digit IQs, this album will take you somewhere you haven't been before. Man, it's a helluva trip.

i like this cd.......1999-11-03

ilikejazzand technoand dub and hiphop and soulbebop 690am and dj assault. this is one of the better techno cds.

Average customer rating:

Her Country-The Songs of Michael Feldman Manufacturer: Fishes Circle ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA33ZC Release Date: 2003-11-25

Average customer rating: Excelent Album

Programmed to Love Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Everlasting Blink Ariels Intercept! Later: Compiled and Mixed by Bent Programmed to Love ASIN: B00005AS49 Release Date: 2001-11-16

Tracks:

1. Exercise 1
2. Private Road
3. Laughing Gear
4. I Love My Man
5. Butterfingers
6. Cylons In Love
7. Wrong Rock
8. A Ribbon For My Hair
9. Blue
10. I Remember Johnny
11. Swollen
12. B Bishop
13. Exercise 2
14. Invisible Pedestrian
15. Memories
16. Irritating Noises
17. Always
18. Beach Buggy

Album Description

Exclusive French pressing of their amazing debut album that garnered critical praise in almost all of the UK press. Fans of Air, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Dusted and the like are sure to love this album. This French pressing includes three full-length tracks

Customer Reviews:

Excelent Album.......2004-03-06

Good downbeats. Magic, fantasious & etheric ambient.
Without a doubt, my favorite disk.
I recommend it.

Average customer rating:

NEWBAND Manufacturer: INNOVA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B00006313C Release Date: 2002-03-05

Tracks:

1. Eleven Intrusions: Olympus' Pantatonic
2. Eleven Intrusions: Archytas Enharmonic
3. Eleven Intrusions: The Rose
4. Eleven Intrusions: The Crane
5. Eleven Intrusions: The Waterfall
6. Eleven Intrusions: The Wind
7. Eleven Intrusions: The Street
8. Eleven Intrusions: Lover
9. Eleven Intrusions: Soldiers - War - Another War
10. Eleven Intrusions: Vanity
11. Eleven Intrusions: Cloud Chamber Music
12. Dark Brother
13. Before The Last Laugh
14. Congressional Record

Average customer rating: Bent to perfection A touch of magic Do not hesitate. Buy this now. Get Bent! Not Only Is This Album Great, But VW Used It InTheir Ads!

Programmed to Love Bent Manufacturer: Ministry of Sound/Sport ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Ambient Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Ariels ASIN: B00005KFVX Release Date: 2001-05-09

Tracks:

1. Excercise 1
2. Private Road [Laughing Gear]
3. Cylons in Love
4. Chocolate Wings [Wrong Rock]
5. Invisible Pedestrian [Blue]
6. I Remember Johnny
7. Swollen
8. Welly Top Mary [Memories]
9. Irritating Noises
10. Always [Toothless Gibbon]

Album Details

Simon Mills and Nail Tolliday, the Nottingham, UK Electronica Artists who Go by the Name Bent, Released this Compilation in 2001, Encompasing Previous EP Releases.features Different Cover Art from the USA Version, and Different Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Bent to perfection.......2003-09-03

Bent are exactly as the name suggests,a little distorted,but always good fun."Programmed to love" is a masterpiece of musical brilliance,courtesy of the faultless standout tracks "swollen","private road" and "always".Band member Zoe Johnston's vocals melt straight into the music,and will leave you in chillout heaven.But dont expect all the album tracks to just blend into each other,because the other side of Bent comes to the party with some weird and quite humorous selections,"chocolate wings" being a perfect example.Check the credits on a couple of the sampled vocal tracks,you will be surprised what you will find.Bent?yes,brilliant?definitely.

A touch of magic.......2002-09-30

I heard Invisible pedestrian when I stepped into HMV at Oxford Street to buy the Verve's Urban Hymns.

Programmed to Love contains some of the most amazing music that I have ever heard

Do not hesitate. Buy this now........2002-09-10

Such a great CD to put in and just sit back and enjoy. Groovy tunes with great flow.

Get Bent!.......2001-11-10

Don't judge an album by its cover. I played my Bent CD at my workplace, which allows music to be played for everyone else to listen, and the next thing I hear is "Who's this???"

I've heard the name Nana Mouskouri a hundred times, but never cared enough to listen to any of her songs. I'm mesmerized everytime I listen to Track #4 (I Love My Man) and Track #10 (A Ribbon for My Hair), since Bent uses samples of her music and lovely voice. Track #12 (Always) is the first song I fell in love on this CD. What an ingenious idea and a unique sounding to borrow a sample from an old, old, old song (you know, the kind of singing you hear on those early 1900 black n' white films)! Track #2 (Private Road) and Track #8 (Swollen) contain no samplings, but original singing by co-writer Zoe Johnston, another spellbinding voice on the CD.

The rest of the songs seem to have a sprinkle of "cuteness" and "humor" in them. Overall, this album is programmed to put listeners in a good mood. If only there was a way to listen to it while floating amongst the thick white clouds above blue sky.

Not Only Is This Album Great, But VW Used It InTheir Ads!.......2001-08-05

Ok, I'll admit, I don't own this album. But I did listen to a few different songs on the CD, and it is good stuff. Not only is it some great music, but you can hear track 5 (Invisible Pedestrian) on the new Volkswagen ad for the VW Eurovan called "Roadtrip." You can watch it here: http://www.adcritic.com/content/vw-eurovan-roadtrip.html?amazon-review Enjoy!

Average customer rating:

Otherworld Technologies Yavin 4 Manufacturer: Negative Gain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00085ETS6 Release Date: 2005-03-15

Tracks:

1. Republic of Voices
2. Soild Extension
3. Traveller
4. Dream Operator
5. Red5
6. Plasma Sleep
7. Alien Intruder
8. Liberate Tutemae (Ex Inferis)
9. Sacred Air (2004 A.D.)
10. We Have Electric Sheep
11. Yavin's Orbit
12. Soild Extension (Retro Mix by Pzychobitch)
13. Traveller (Virtual Server Mix by Dj Ram)
14. Alien Intruder (Onboard Mix by Crucifrom Injection)
15. Sacred Air (Future-pop Mix by Yavin 4)

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Hailing from Germany, Yavin 4 are the official side project of T.O.Y keyboardist Oliver Taranczewski and Stefan Voigt of future pop band PLASTIC. On "Otherworld Technologies" they deliver ambitious electronic soundscapes combined with modern D&B grooves and industrial edginess to create a unique electronic sound,similar to older Evils Toy and Haujobb. Overall "Otherworld Technologies" offers a synthetic landscape of tightly programmed beats, modern electronic influences and dancefloor industrial overtones - a great collaboration!

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Pillbox Manufacturer: Contamine World Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Jason's Chord ASIN: B0009SRX80 Release Date: 2005-05-25

Tracks:

1. Something
2. World Stumbling
3. Dragonfly
4. Buddha's Pillbox
5. Sad Bird
6. Nothing Day
7. Purple
8. Berlin at this Train
9. In the Dirt
10. Love and Hate

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Andy Rinehart's newest is a long time in coming but exhibits the time spent through its crafted arrangements. True to Andy's previous releases this is the work of a rock songsmith with a penchant for the composer's approach. String and wind players occasionally join band members Matte Henderson (guitars and programming), Gregg Sulzer (drums) and Walter Strauss (guitars), who weave amongst Rinehart’s quirky-organic programming and multi-instrumental performances. This is a record where mandolas, accordions and oboes commune with subterranean grooves and aggressive guitar noise-scapes all disguised by songwriting that could almost be mistaken for pop.  Quirky, organic and loopy; intricate, cinematic and orchestrated; sensitive, aggressive and honest, this album leaves only a few musical corners unexplored.  Warning: moments of above-average chord count may cause disorientation.  It deserves mention that this new album by Andy Rinehart also serves as a mini gallery! for visual artist-collaborator Keith LoBue who's numerous otherworldly works underline and comment on the musical and lyrical content.

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1. Push the Beat for This Jam [Import]
2. Rainwater [CD-single]
3. Rave: The Making Of
4. Release Yourself 2003
5. Renaissance: Desire
6. Return of the Rogue [Import]
7. Rhythm & Sound
8. Runaway [CD-single] [EP]
9. Sing It Back [CD-single]
10. Singles Collection [Import]

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Nice & Decent [Import]

Stauss: Waltzes & Polkas

Rachmaninoff: Sonata Op.36/Preludes Op. Nos. 23 & 32/Etudes Tableaux/Moment Musical/Daisies,Op.38

Music: Favor of My Friends 2003 [Import]

Rickie Lee Jones

Slaughtercult [Explicit Lyrics]

Stacie Orrico [Extra tracks] [Import]

Problemz II Solve [Explicit Lyrics]

Rempere Pour Sortir

Schubert: Piano Sonatas D 960 & 664, Moments Musicaux D 780, Impromptus D 899 & [Import]

Sambahia

Sevillanas de Oro, Vol. 15 [Import]

Power of Dream Dance [Import]

South Texas Polka Party

The Malcolm X Jazz Suite