Displacement

1. Idea

2. Entropy

3. Catcher

4. Too Vague

5. Nothing ... Now

6. Right There

7. Hungry Ghost

8. Into the Sun

9. Stranger

10. Chemical Burn

11. Blank

12. Balance

13. Chained

14. As It Falls

15. Abraxas

Tracks:

Dark Clouds, No Rain
8:15-No Safe Place
Angels without Wings
Consider Figure Three
Erosion
Severed Moon
The Naked & The Dead
Gordon's Basement
A City With Two Tales: Part One Revisited 1990

Customer Reviews:

WOW.......2004-04-18

I had picked up Burning The Hard City as my first Djam CD. I was disappointed with it. I read that Suspension & Displacement was the Yin to Burning The Hard City's Yang. I took a chance and picked up Suspension & Displacement. It wouldn't call it completely ambient. At least not Brian Eno ambient. I'd call it right brain music. It's well produced with very creative distinct songs.

Best "Ambient" Album of 1991.......2000-01-25

Djam Karet are a Los Angeles progressive rock quartet founded in 1984. Their first two releases, "No Commercial Potential" (1985) and "The Ritual Continues" (1987) were private cassettes of totally improvised music. In 1989, Djam Karet gave us their first proper "composed" release with "Reflections From The Firepool." That album highlighted their two primary influences - Pink Floyd and King Crimson.

But although "Firepool" was a triumph, it was also a little schizophrenic. The savage blasts of "Red" era King Crimson did not sit all that well with the spaced-out ambience of "Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd. And so in 1991, Djam Karet split the two musical avenues into two complimentary releases: the guitar based, metallic "Burning the Hard City" and the quieter, textured "Suspension and Displacement." Until recently, both these albums were difficult to locate, but with Cuneiform Record's decision to reissue them, many more people have a chance to enjoy this exceptional band. Both "Burning the Hard City" and "Suspension and Displacement" were excellent releases and the latter, in my opinion, was the better of the two.

"Suspension and Displacement" is wholly instrumental and it emphasises the band's Pink Floyd tendencies. But as with "Burning the Hard City" Djam Karet do not settle for simply aping one of their major sources of inspiration. This is no more evident than in the opening track "Dark Clouds, No Rain." Here, the band combine Floydian soundscapes with the work of Fripp and Eno. (The weird opening "drone" on this track recalls "The Heavenly Music Corporation.") As this 12 minute piece continues, ethnic influences begin to make their presence felt. The song becomes a collage of different musical sounds, ranging from exotic percussion to acoustic guitar. A compelling and highly original track, and the same can be said for the rest of the album.

Similarly, the sampling is fascinating, to say the least. Take the track "Consider Figure Three." The band somehow manage to enfold a medical school lecture (seriously!) into the piece, and the varieties of sampling elsewhere are far from ordinary. The band's exotic instrumentation and sampling are rounded off with several acoustic guitar segments, but on the whole, the electric guitar is banished to "Burning the Hard City."

So far as songwriting is concerned, Djam Karet have yet to better this album. Musical ideas are developed convincingly throughout. It is this attention to songcraft that sets this album far apart from most other ambient/new age releases. So far as progressive rock was concerned, this album did enter genuinely new territory.

If you enjoy this album, it will certainly be worth your time and effort tracking down their 1994 release "Collaborator" which, with the help of supporting musicians Kit Watkins and Steve Roach, follows through on some of the musical paths hinted at on "Suspension and Displacement." Hopefully, it will not be long before Cuneiform Records reissues that album too.

Constant Displacement
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Who is this wild man?!

Constant Displacement
Wayne Rogers
Manufacturer: Drag City
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000BV1CH
Release Date: 2003-08-19

Tracks:

Far
Oh (Ah)
Dead & Rising
Everything's Real
Something In The Air
Wonder
Lives
There
As Of Yeasterday

Customer Reviews:

Who is this wild man?!.......2003-08-20

Who is this "Rogers" fellow? Who is he? I've heard a lot of guitar players in my day... from Clux McCunna to Beob Brumlin to K Biggs, but "Wayne Rogers"?! Come ON! Why does he pluck on the string machine with such utter... Why does a-thumpa-dump-dump on the skins with such... WHY?!
I've got two copies!

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Tony is a great player and great guy

Hip Displacement
Tony d'Aveni
Manufacturer: Brownstone Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000005OWM
Release Date: 1997-11-18

Tracks:

Giant Steps - Tony D'Aveni/George Garzone/Hal Crook/Bevan Manson/John Lockwood/Owen Howard
Lion's Adagio-R - Tony D'Aveni/Gerge Garzone/Bevan Manson/John Lockwood/Owen Howard
3/For Mary - Tony D'Aveni/Les Arbuckle/Bevan Manson/John Lockwood/Owen Howard
Darn That Dream
There's No You
Secret Love
Sometime Ago
Pink Skates - Tony D'Aveni/Les Arbuckle/Bevan Manson/John Lockwood/Owen Howard
Look To The Sky
Knockwood Lockwood - Tony D'Aveni/George Garzone/Hal Crook/Bevan Manson/John Lockwood/Owen Howard

Customer Reviews:

Tony is a great player and great guy.......2003-10-07

There are not too many contemperary Jazz players lef in the world, Tony D'avini is one of the few. I actually study trumpet with the man and this CD, like his teaching is exellent. This man is carrying the dead weight of the Jazz world on his shoulders and doing a great job reviving it.

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Two Kansas kids and their remarkable hip-hop

Displacement
ID & Sleeper
Manufacturer: Mush
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0009WPM8E
Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

Idea
Entropy
Catcher
Too Vague
Nothing ... Now
Right There
Hungry Ghost
Into the Sun
Stranger
Chemical Burn
Blank
Balance
Chained
As It Falls
Abraxas

Customer Reviews:

Two Kansas kids and their remarkable hip-hop.......2006-11-11

Living in Compton or Brooklyn with neighbors like Ice-T or Mos Def (respectively) doesn't give you and your ersatz beat-box skills the right to a record deal and world tour. As Erik B. said, "It doesn't matter where you're from; it's where you're at." That makes sense when you consider the intriguing tradition and location-specific work made by artists with a geographical handicap -- like these two Kansas kids and their remarkable hip-hop.

Straight outta Lawrence, iD and Sleeper create the kind of music that many of the new crop of underground hip-hop kids on Mush, Plug Research and Anticon do: an invention fashioned from influences but heavily dyed by own unique ethnocentric flavor. Sleeper's production draws upon the minimalist old school with a gritty 8-bit production style, creeping along in a timeless style and never gunning for "flavor of the month" status. Complementing this direct approach is the equally no-nonsense iD, whose words and delivery stalk and slink without an identifiable foothold -- despite the fact that he's as obstinate in his beliefs as Ice Cube, as dark and pessimistic as Dälek, as passive-aggressive as Aesop Rock and (sometimes) as enigmatic as MF DOOM.

The scientific sample over the opening instrumental, "The Idea", sets the mood as it proclaims iD and Sleeper's manifesto and challenge to themselves and their listeners: "...his second important ability was the knack or skill of writing about his findings in such a way that it's instantly understood, intellectually / but what is perhaps even more important with this particular subject: understood emotionally as well." In case this statement and the album-title aren't enough, iD comes out slugging, addressing the duo's fish-out-of-water nature on the first vocal track, "Entropy". He offers, "In relation to passing crews of passing fools / I've got my own flashlight / don't huff on gas pipes, and need no package of plastic crap like that is," while Sleeper's string-swell and grainy, sloppy, flaming beats drive him forward to offer, "From scattered pieces, we build / only the fragments are real / let the life reveal what's right."

From here, iD and Sleeper continue their mission, focusing on the concept of you as your own worst enemy, as well as our inability to change a flawed world, offering it in a package of few colors. That is, the production and iD's performances and topics follow a very consistent approach and aesthetic -- which is a bit frustrating and offputting during the first few listens. However, patience is a virtue, and you might visually relate Displacement to a Rothko painting: "Orange and Yellow" is a large canvas drenched with the titular colors, but did you think about the organic feel fostered by the choice of brush strokes? Are you paying attention to the subtle details, such as how the picture looks under natural light as opposed to a fluorescent bulb? By the same token, iD and Sleeper work in a style that's not immediately attention-grabbing. These guys don't care about the flaky idiot who's easily suckered with hooks, bouncing beats and something he can hum along with; they play to people who dig in and read the lyrics (printed on the sleeve for your pleasure) and fans who can respect Sleeper's talent for avoiding melody by compensating with textures formed from layers of brittle, sludgy. mashed-up sounds.

ID and Sleeper don't pretend to have played a part in hip-hop's original tradition or Generation Escalade; they push their own struggle. Their plan is to overshadow bling with musicianship, to avoid gimmicks that might propel them into a spotlight that grants them only fifteen minutes, to be heard without mainstream radio play and to attempt to achieve recognition in a world dominated by flashy disposable artists remembered (and soon forgotten) for their superficial catch-phrases. Noble.

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Place in Displacement
South
Manufacturer: Universal/Genepool
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CHYHNM
Release Date: 2006-01-17

Tracks:

Place In Displacement
Fight Your Cause
Addiction To Fiction

Album Description

Title track is backed by 'Fight Your Cause' and 'Addicition To Fiction'. Genepool. 2006.

Album Details

Formerly Signed to Mo Wax, their Single Conjures Up Visions of Vintage New Order.

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Displacement
ID & Sleeper
Manufacturer: Mush
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0009WPM8Y
Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

Idea
Entropy
Catcher
Too Vague
Nothing ... Now
Right There
Hungry Ghost
Into the Sun
Stranger
Chemical Burn
Blank
Balance
Chained
As It Falls
Abraxas

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Unique (Weird)
The best of both worlds

Displacement
Phantom Limbs
Manufacturer: Alternative Tentacle
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Post-Punk | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000AKCI8
Release Date: 2003-09-16

Tracks:

Active Verbs
Castanets Cookie
Wrenches and Spoons
Romance
From a Distance
Patience
Ear to the Ground
Turtle Doves

Customer Reviews:

Unique (Weird).......2004-04-20

This is one of the most original sounding bands to appear in the last 5 years. They've got punk rock energy, gothic gloom, Dali-esque surrealism, a truly strange sense of humor and performance art terror tactics. This band is like that crackhead highschool clown who would do anything to get a rise out of someone. But what is it? I consider it to be Deathrock. Plain and simple. It's post punk, it's dark and spooky, it's rock and it's deathy. As for what they sound like, this is where it gets difficult to explain. They've got a sense of abandon that reminds me of The Birthday Party, an "arty" quality that brings Bauhaus to mind and a dream-like surreal edge that reminds me of Alien Sex Fiend. However, they don't sound anything at all like those bands. The closest I can come to a comparison would be early Positive Punk bands like UK Decay and Sex Gang Children mixed with early TSOL and sideshow carnival music from hell. The coolest thing about them is their use of a Farsifa (I think?) organ cranking out some totally eerie melodies. Sort of like the soundtrack to a psycho clown chasing you through an old Gothic mansion full of cobwebs.

The best of both worlds.......2003-10-23

I don't think I will live to see the day when genres mix this well. The phantom limbs are a blend of goth rock and american hardcore born again. Dissonance is the best way i can describe this band. Displacement is a phenominal beggining for a phenominal band. This has to be the most innovative band that has came out in a long time. Buy their cds and see them live!!! You will not be dissapointed