Ninetynine

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After 1996's drum & bass-inflected Solutions for a Small Planet and Daniel Myer's ambient-electronica side projects Cleen and Newt, it was plain to see in which direction Haujobb were moving. Listening to Ninetynine might jar fans of the band's older, industrial-dance material, but even if you resent the change, you can't help admiring Haujobb's skill in pulling it off. Minimalist, atmospheric electro is the underlying aesthetic here, but Myer and partner Dejan Samardzic have created a varied and engaging disc with the power to both please and perplex. Guest vocalist Vanessa Briggs brings a moody trip-hop feel to "Overflow," "Less," and "X-Flow"; "Cutedge" marries a stop-start groove to stringlike synths and burbly static; and "Ninetynine" explodes halfway through with a jazzy, percussive, Photek-like force. There's even a 13-minute-long "hidden" track of disjointed samples and drum patterns, as though Haujobb were letting you behind the curtain and into their strange museum of sound. A triumph in '99 or any other year. --Steve Landau

Product Description
Once Again Daniel Mayer and Dejan Samardzic Attemp to Revolutionizethe World of Electronic Music.fascinating Rhythms,embeded Into Warm Soundscapes. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Ninetynine,Haujobb,Metropolis Records,Dance Music,Electro-Industrial,Electronica,Industrial,Industrial Dance,Industrial/Gothic,Pop

Average customer rating: THE CHILD DEVIANT something different pretentious, dull electronic Quiet side of Haujobb. Boring and awfull

Ninetynine Haujobb Manufacturer: Metropolis Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Industrial Dance | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Freeze Frame Reality Solutions for a Small Planet ASIN: B00000IN5C Release Date: 1999-05-04

Tracks:

1. Grounds
2. Overflow
3. Doubleyou
4. Cutedge
5. Ninetynine
6. Less
7. Pulsar
8. Creator
9. X-Flow
10. Untitled

Amazon.com

After 1996's drum & bass-inflected Solutions for a Small Planet and Daniel Myer's ambient-electronica side projects Cleen and Newt, it was plain to see in which direction Haujobb were moving. Listening to Ninetynine might jar fans of the band's older, industrial-dance material, but even if you resent the change, you can't help admiring Haujobb's skill in pulling it off. Minimalist, atmospheric electro is the underlying aesthetic here, but Myer and partner Dejan Samardzic have created a varied and engaging disc with the power to both please and perplex. Guest vocalist Vanessa Briggs brings a moody trip-hop feel to "Overflow," "Less," and "X-Flow"; "Cutedge" marries a stop-start groove to stringlike synths and burbly static; and "Ninetynine" explodes halfway through with a jazzy, percussive, Photek-like force. There's even a 13-minute-long "hidden" track of disjointed samples and drum patterns, as though Haujobb were letting you behind the curtain and into their strange museum of sound. A triumph in '99 or any other year. --Steve Landau

Album Details

Once Again Daniel Mayer and Dejan Samardzic Attemp to Revolutionizethe World of Electronic Music.fascinating Rhythms,embeded Into Warm Soundscapes.

Customer Reviews:

THE CHILD DEVIANT.......2007-05-19

I love Haujobb...but this is a verry weak release. IDM or wahtever there calling this kind of music...it's mostly just baoring. Not that it's lacking in talent or art direction or even in production....it's just plain baoring. If your new to Haujobb I strongly suggest you avoid this album and atsrt with 'Vertical Theory' or even 'Polarity'. This album is just not that interresting.

something different.......2004-12-22

I first got into Haujobb with their newest release, Vertical Theory, the album really caught my attention even though it seemed very strange.

So after countless sessions listening to it, I decided to get a new Haujobb album figuring I would enjoy it.

This album had me scratching my head at first but after a couple listens it grew up me and now I love 2 Haujobb CDs.

Their style seems to change with every album as i'm seeing with my newest purchase, Polarity.

Haujobb is quite an amazing act. I look forward to gathering the rest of the albums and then searching for some of his side projects.

pretentious, dull electronic.......2003-06-04

I bought this cd two days ago and was sorely dissappointed. From reading other reviews, I thought this would be a kind of mellower and more melodic version of industrial or goth music, with some interesting levels of electronic complexity. . . .Which in some sense it does try to be. However, it comes together all wrong. The digital manipulations are competant, but there is not enough intricacy to keep you entertained. It's like if Autechre put together an album one day when they were really bored. Then they went and fused an urban lounge/ trip hop element to it which winds up just being annoying and disguises the supposed industrial roots of the group. Top it all off with really pretentious and self indulgent off key vocals. And not off key in a pleasant Bjork or Portishead kind of a way. If you can't recognise this singing is bad then you deserve to have wasted your money. Maybe it is possible to merge minimalist industrial, IDM, trip hop, and vocals into one coherent genre. However, ninteynine fails miserably. I bought this cd at a record store half and hour from my apartment. By the time I got back I had decided that it wasn't even worth another listen. I gave it two stars because the electronics are competently programed.

If you want industrial try - - -
Funker Vogt - Machine Zeit: adictive synth hooks, German style, a bit over the top in a fun dancey way.
Front Line Assembly - Flavour of the Weak: agressive, intricate, darkly futuristic, with three long instrumentals and strong vocals
Gridlock - Trace: soothing instrumental industrial music with very sparse vocals. Very chilled but not at all boring. This might be what you are looking for instead of ninteynine.

If you want IDM try - - -
Autechre - Amber: Fairly accessable with some beautifully intricate synth effects. Constructed in hypnotic minimal patterns.

If you want trip hop try - - -
Portishead - Portishead: Their first album is hauntingly beautiful in a wierd B movie kind of a way

Quiet side of Haujobb........2002-10-29

On first listen to this CD, I was taken back as to how different it was from their previous CD releases. After some adjustment, I opened my ears to find that this was prehaps Haujobb's finest hour thus far. OK, its light years away from the dark, and rythmic "SFASP", but it still contains the key musical elements of Haujobb, precussive samples, complex layered rythms, and samples from who knows where.
Ninetynine is the aftermath of the previous CDs, and is a total chill out session. Complete with the very lush "Overflow", and numerous instruments this is a must have for Haujobb fans who want to stay on the same planet, but move to another suburb.
GET IT!

Boring and awfull.......2001-08-02

Tell e something worse than people that just can't sing, and can in fact not hit a tone right. Haujobb is moving towards an embarrasing style, with Meyers awfull singing overlapping everything. Tell him he is a bad singer. He is singing duet on one track... I thought is was a joke. Haujobb ended after "Solutions for a small planet". I am not going to buy more records from them, I listened to Polarity and it is just as bad.

Average customer rating: Do Stars Shine or Burn? Aural perfection darkness

Ninetynine Remixes Haujobb Manufacturer: Metropolis Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Pop General | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00003001A Release Date: 1999-11-23

Tracks:

1. Doubleyou (Tribute Rmx)
2. Pulsar (Rmx)
3. Overflow (Red Sparrow Rmx)
4. Ninetynine (S'Apexed)
5. Overpulse (Combination By Photic Sonar)
6. Doubleyou (Dubmix)
7. Cutedge (60:60 Architect Rmx)
8. Overflow (Infam Rmx)
9. Overflow (For A Space Rmx)

Customer Reviews:

Do Stars Shine or Burn?.......2004-01-15

Have you ever owned an album that you started out really disliking, giving it a quick introduction to the shelf after that first grimacing spin, only to pull it out three or four times later and find that you like it all of the sudden after the last one? Well, this was the way Haujobb's '99 remixes hit me. When I first bought the album, I didn't really like the change in the bands sound as they leaned into `99, with them leaning into more structured paths that had been followed before, and I found myself a little turned off by the vocal performance in the album. Even more to the point is a disdain for remixes I carry for some reason, with them never really settling in my stomach well when I first listen to them. I'm not sure why that is, really, or why I wouldn't have liked this release other than the fact that I must have been listening to another type of music at the time. Whatever the case, out of the proverbial blue, I happened across the album for a fifth time and decided to give it one more twirl around the block. And, honestly, I'm glad I did.

I've actually been a fan of Haujobb for a while now, and I've picked up almost everything in their body of work. This has lead me through some rather odd doorways in the first releases, then it pushed toward the more drum n bass sounds that others were using while providing their own flavor in the fold. Some of the albums took a little adjustment to when they were first picked up, too, and some of the newest albums (Vertical Theory being the newest to date) were a little more mainstream dancefloor music than I initially find myself craving. Still, they all have a way of eventually worming their way into my subconscious and, with time, the subtle hints of electronic texture took hold.

The type of music is a bit hard to subclass in '99 remixes, with many types of electronica coming together in the mix. '99 was, as I mentioned before, the album that shifted the focus of the band to the thing they would slow become. Its actually the first noticeable turn toward what Polarity would brazenly showcase, and heralds the departure of a sound scuplting methods that upset quite a few fans. That said, there's drum n bass beats, some really superb vocals mixed into the fold, and some rather soothing sounds when ingested in the right frame of mind. The first track to actually catch my ear was "overflow," if that means anything to someone wanting to try it on for size, and the album itself is, by and large, one impressive body with flowing curves.

Before rushing out to buy the album on my positive reference or pushing it aside because of someone else's negative thoughts, you should probably sample it a little and decide for yourself. Experimental music of all types, from those setting just off the mainstream to those going way off the deep end, require a select listener and they're not for everyone. Still, this is a solid album and can be hard to put down after the fifth or sixth spin grafts it to your mind.

Aural perfection.......2000-06-27

This is the remix follow-up to "Ninety-Nine", in the tradition of Haujobb's original-release-followed-by-remix-album on which other respected artists are invited to have a go with the originals. I'm astonished to find so few reviews on this page - I assume the band's goth fans had finally been scared off by "Ninety-Nine". Technically this album is sheer genius. I hear sounds I've never heard before and unfortunately most of this album will be lost on lo-fi systems. Styles vary from experimental to ambient to even house/funk. Favourite tracks: "Pulsar" and "Overflow (Infam)"

darkness.......2000-03-15

There's a lot to enjoy on this EP, which I'm actually enjoying more than the LP. Still slower and more ambient than previous Haujobb work, the EP is still fun to listen to. The remixes of Overflow stand out, with one very dark, slower mix, and a dancefloor "house" mix that I like. It's a good cd, if you don't mind the "milder" direction that Haujobb is moving in.

Average customer rating: THE CHILD DEVIANT something different pretentious, dull electronic Quiet side of Haujobb. Boring and awfull

Ninetynine Haujobb Manufacturer: Acces ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Industrial Dance | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Freeze Frame Reality Solutions for a Small Planet ASIN: B000028DNB Release Date: 2000-03-03

Tracks:

1. Grounds
2. Overflow
3. Doubleyou
4. Cutedge
5. Ninetynine
6. Less
7. Pulsar
8. Creator
9. X-Flow

Amazon.com

After 1996's drum & bass-inflected Solutions for a Small Planet and Daniel Myer's ambient-electronica side projects Cleen and Newt, it was plain to see in which direction Haujobb were moving. Listening to Ninetynine might jar fans of the band's older, industrial-dance material, but even if you resent the change, you can't help admiring Haujobb's skill in pulling it off. Minimalist, atmospheric electro is the underlying aesthetic here, but Myer and partner Dejan Samardzic have created a varied and engaging disc with the power to both please and perplex. Guest vocalist Vanessa Briggs brings a moody trip-hop feel to "Overflow," "Less," and "X-Flow"; "Cutedge" marries a stop-start groove to stringlike synths and burbly static; and "Ninetynine" explodes halfway through with a jazzy, percussive, Photek-like force. There's even a 13-minute-long "hidden" track of disjointed samples and drum patterns, as though Haujobb were letting you behind the curtain and into their strange museum of sound. A triumph in '99 or any other year. --Steve Landau

Album Details

Once Again Daniel Mayer and Dejan Samardzic Attemp to Revolutionizethe World of Electronic Music.fascinating Rhythms,embeded Into Warm Soundscapes.

Customer Reviews:

THE CHILD DEVIANT.......2007-05-19

I love Haujobb...but this is a verry weak release. IDM or wahtever there calling this kind of music...it's mostly just baoring. Not that it's lacking in talent or art direction or even in production....it's just plain baoring. If your new to Haujobb I strongly suggest you avoid this album and atsrt with 'Vertical Theory' or even 'Polarity'. This album is just not that interresting.

something different.......2004-12-22

I first got into Haujobb with their newest release, Vertical Theory, the album really caught my attention even though it seemed very strange.

So after countless sessions listening to it, I decided to get a new Haujobb album figuring I would enjoy it.

This album had me scratching my head at first but after a couple listens it grew up me and now I love 2 Haujobb CDs.

Their style seems to change with every album as i'm seeing with my newest purchase, Polarity.

Haujobb is quite an amazing act. I look forward to gathering the rest of the albums and then searching for some of his side projects.

pretentious, dull electronic.......2003-06-04

I bought this cd two days ago and was sorely dissappointed. From reading other reviews, I thought this would be a kind of mellower and more melodic version of industrial or goth music, with some interesting levels of electronic complexity. . . .Which in some sense it does try to be. However, it comes together all wrong. The digital manipulations are competant, but there is not enough intricacy to keep you entertained. It's like if Autechre put together an album one day when they were really bored. Then they went and fused an urban lounge/ trip hop element to it which winds up just being annoying and disguises the supposed industrial roots of the group. Top it all off with really pretentious and self indulgent off key vocals. And not off key in a pleasant Bjork or Portishead kind of a way. If you can't recognise this singing is bad then you deserve to have wasted your money. Maybe it is possible to merge minimalist industrial, IDM, trip hop, and vocals into one coherent genre. However, ninteynine fails miserably. I bought this cd at a record store half and hour from my apartment. By the time I got back I had decided that it wasn't even worth another listen. I gave it two stars because the electronics are competently programed.

If you want industrial try - - -
Funker Vogt - Machine Zeit: adictive synth hooks, German style, a bit over the top in a fun dancey way.
Front Line Assembly - Flavour of the Weak: agressive, intricate, darkly futuristic, with three long instrumentals and strong vocals
Gridlock - Trace: soothing instrumental industrial music with very sparse vocals. Very chilled but not at all boring. This might be what you are looking for instead of ninteynine.

If you want IDM try - - -
Autechre - Amber: Fairly accessable with some beautifully intricate synth effects. Constructed in hypnotic minimal patterns.

If you want trip hop try - - -
Portishead - Portishead: Their first album is hauntingly beautiful in a wierd B movie kind of a way

Quiet side of Haujobb........2002-10-29

On first listen to this CD, I was taken back as to how different it was from their previous CD releases. After some adjustment, I opened my ears to find that this was prehaps Haujobb's finest hour thus far. OK, its light years away from the dark, and rythmic "SFASP", but it still contains the key musical elements of Haujobb, precussive samples, complex layered rythms, and samples from who knows where.
Ninetynine is the aftermath of the previous CDs, and is a total chill out session. Complete with the very lush "Overflow", and numerous instruments this is a must have for Haujobb fans who want to stay on the same planet, but move to another suburb.
GET IT!

Boring and awfull.......2001-08-02

Tell e something worse than people that just can't sing, and can in fact not hit a tone right. Haujobb is moving towards an embarrasing style, with Meyers awfull singing overlapping everything. Tell him he is a bad singer. He is singing duet on one track... I thought is was a joke. Haujobb ended after "Solutions for a small planet". I am not going to buy more records from them, I listened to Polarity and it is just as bad.

Average customer rating:

Worlds Of Peace / Worlds Of Population / Worlds Of Robots Ninetynine Manufacturer: Stickfigure / If Society / United Ape Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000JLSQTC Release Date: 2006-10-31

Tracks:

1. Receiving The Sounds Of Science Fiction
2. Highway Delights
3. Stop
4. Repetition
5. Objects and Fields
6. Thylacine
7. Monster
8. Panda
9. Incandescent
10. At The Backdoor
11. Familiar
12. Steel

Product Description

Hailing from Melbourne, Ninetynine combine indie rock stylings with tuned percussion and layerings of casio keyboard to create a unique kind of pop music. Variously described as 'wonderful' (Melody Maker) and 'versatile and talented' (Australian Rolling Stone) the band began as a solo project for Laura MacFarlane (the original drummer for Sleater-Kinney) in 1995. Ninetynine's self titled debut on Patsy and Canada's Endearing Records followed soon after as well as tours of the U.S., New Zealand and Europe. In 1997 long time collaborator Cameron Potts joined the band just in time to appear on the release of the '767' album on Patsy and Endearing. In 2000 Ninetynine their third album '180 Degrees' on Radio One and Patsy to local and overseas acclaim with John Peel going on record as to how wonderful he thought the band to be. The following year a rejuvenated line up appeared with Amy Clarke and Iain McIntyre coming in to assist on bass, vocals, guitar, keyboard and vibraphone and the band released 'Anatomy of Distance', a collection of singles and compilation tracks, on Patsy, Radio One and Stickfigure. 2002 saw Ninetynine head into a 24 track studio for the first time with Lindsay Gravina at Birdland Studios (Magic Dirt, Rowland S. Howard). The result was their stunning album 'The Process' released on CD by Trifekta records and vinyl by Cars and Appliances. 2003 saw the band tour Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe once more before recording an EP for US label Dark Beloved Cloud. The band's first four albums were also reissued by Unstable Ape Recordings. In 2006 the band finished recording a new album "Worlds Of Population, Worlds Of Space, Worlds Of Robots" which has just been released in Australia and overseas. Ninetynine will be launching the album nationally September/ October and embark on their 7th overseas tour in October 2006. "Their manner, along with their choices of instruments, confidence and the aptitude of all members on all instruments set th

Average customer rating:

767 Manufacturer: Endearing Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA2JTS Release Date: 2003-12-23

Average customer rating:

767 NinetyNine Manufacturer: Endearing ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002IASAC Release Date: 2007-01-08

Tracks:

1. Woekenender
2. Car Song
3. Vox
4. Manga Girl Cut
5. Gamelan
6. International Mario
7. Dorsal
8. Aztec
9. Pavlov's Dog
10. 1/2
11. Aerophobia
12. Population 100 000
13. Hawaii
14. Exponential
15. Pandemic

Average customer rating:

Worlds of Space Worlds of Population ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000RT3QO6 Release Date: 2007-06-26

Album Description

Ninetynine are the true indie stalwarts of the melbourne music scene. Forming in 1996, as a solo project for laura macfarlane (who at the time had just left her position as drummer for sleater kinney). Additional members were quickly added, and the band started a relentless recording and touring schedule that has held them in high critical regard ever since. Recent times have seen the band drop their lo-fi patchwork approach to making albums and concentrate on a more unified studio effort to create a truer recorded example of their hi-energy live shows. This is their 6th album, and will see them embark shortly on their 8th international tour. The title comes from a 1930's economic term basically inferring first, second and third worlds.

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8. Reperspective [Import]
9. Resonate V. 4 (Mixed by Lee Haslam) [Import]
10. Rio Funk

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