Shift [Import]

Shift [Import]

Track Listings

1. Particles

2. Engine Of Death

3. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Scar

4. No Paradise For The Damned

5. Wrath

6. Fear Is You Weapon

7. Deepest Hole

8. High On Hate

9. Pathetic

10. Circle Of Defeat

11. Like Cattle

12. Ros

13. Smallest Man

14. Cornered

15. Strife

16. Clash

17. Hets

18. Closer To The End

19. Fury

20. Fight Terror With Terror

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese pressing of 2004 album from the Swedish grindcore band. Ritual.

Tracks:

Nanna's Lied
Complainte de la seine
Klops-Lied
Berlin im licht-Song
Und was bekam des soldaten weib?
Die muschel von margate: Petroleum Song
Wie lange noch?
Roger Fernay: Youkali: Tango Habanera
Der abschiedsbrief
Es regnet
Oscar Hammerstein II: Buddy On The Nightshift
Schickelgruber
Je ne t'aime pas
Das lied von den braunen inseln

Customer Reviews:

No lyrics enclosed.......2007-07-09

It is a disgrace that there are no lyrics enclosed. This is NOT a budget cd.

Superb.......2007-06-27

This is one of the best recordings of Kurt Weill ever and one of the best recordings of the magnificent Teresa Stratas.

Stratas is good. Others are better........2005-10-08

'The Unknown Kurt Weill' sung by Maria Stratas is a fine recording. The problem is that there are many fine recordings of Kurt Weill songs done by Lotte Lenya and several other Weill specialists, lead by Ute Lemper and Gisela May.

So, this album may be valuable if indeed it included a lot of numbers which do not appear on other recordings, but that is not the case either. On my collection of about ten (10) disks, not including recordings from specific shows, I have other recordings of at least half of these songs.

I really think Weill's legacy is better served by recordings who do his complete works rather than 'interesting' selections of his songs.

This is a good, enjoyable recording. I listen to it at least once a year, but it is not as good as other Weill records.

STRATAS WALKS THE RAZORýS EDGEý.......2003-07-11

I don't review many classical recordings - but this one, from 1981, has always been one of my favorite Weill collections, and after reading the rather negative comments from one reviewer, I felt I had to add my two cents' worth to the fray. Everyone is of course entitled to his or her own opinion - and music in SUCH a subjective topic that this should go without saying.

I've been a bug admirer of Weill's work - particularly his collaborations with Brecht - for years. His songs tread the thin, tricky line between classical and cabaret more daringly that most. Brecht's collaborations with Hanns Eisler, for example, are closer to the theatrical than are Weill's. In my humble opinion, Stratas walks this `razor's edge' very nimbly on this recording - her voice is obviously a finely trained instrument, but she is also able of conveying a lot of feeling and emotion with these lyrics. Her choice - or perhaps the producer's - of accompanying here with only a piano is a good one. Woitach does a fine job - and the recording itself is crystal-clear.

My only real complaint with the cd version of this album is the size of the type in the liner notes - Nonesuch could have easily `sprung' for a lengthier booklet, to allow us `old fogies' the opportunity to read it without a magnifier, and also to include the lyrics and translations. I can't recall for certain if the lp version offered the lyrics, but I believe it did. At any rate, these complaints are indeed small ones - this is a timeless, beautiful recording, and one that any fan of Weill's work should at least hear.

Leave Weill enough alone ..........2000-07-08

I don't know just what Lotte Lenya said on her deathbed, but I personally feel that other singers carry the torch for Kurt Weill as well or better than Teresa Stratas. Of all my Weill albums, this one gives me the least pleasure. The German is bad, the interpretations are shrill and forced. Some of the tracks are almost unlistenable. Was Teresa Stratas simply the first world class singer to rediscover this body of work? Was Lenya giving her a sympathy vote? I love Stratas' singing elsewhere, in the Boulez recording of Lulu (for example), but she is no good here.

For a newcomer to Weill, I highly recommend Anna Sophie Von Otter (excellent in every way) or even Ute Lemper's entertaining album. For that matter, go back and pick up Lotte Lenya's remastered Threepenny Opera -- it doesn't get much better than that. This Weill album, however, is tellingly named: it deserves to be unknown.

Graveyard Shift
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Schizo

Americana at it's absolute pinnacle

Hellbilly at it's best

Graveyard Shift
Scott H. Biram
Manufacturer: Bloodshot Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FWGYO4
Release Date: 2006-07-18

Tracks:

Been Down Too Long
No Way
Graveyard Shift
Lost Case of Being Found
Only Jesus
Goin' Home
18 Wheeler Fever
Plow You Under
Work
Long Fingernail
Reefer Load
Have No Fun
Santa Fe
Church Babies

Customer Reviews:

Schizo.......2007-04-12

I'm writing this as a country/blues fan who "gets" punk but has no personal taste for it. Even taking into account the tracks that are unadulterated punk ("Church Babies", etc.), this is a good album. Biram does the full spectrum from punk to country to blues and is mesmerizing. If you haven't heard his early rendition of "Pastures of Plenty", go to his website and get that, too. Even Ramblin' Jack Elliott didn't channel Woody Guthrie like that. I wish Amazon would post sound clips, even though they wouldn't do him justice. There's a reason it's the First Church of the Ultimate Fanaticism.

Americana at it's absolute pinnacle.......2007-03-21

Let me preface this review by first saying that I am not a fan of the alt-country genre. Scott H. Biram is simply labled as alt-country because there is no country/blues/punk/metal/badassery genre to speak of. And yes, he is all those things and more.

Scott H. Biram is an amazing artist, and puts on a hell of a show. One man, sitting down, gets all the little hole in the wall venues he plays dangerously rowdy. This album, while a bit more down tempo then his previous effort (Dirty old one man band) continues his relentless musical assault on the United States.

Everything he offers is put to front on this album. The opener "Been Down Too Long" is like a tent revival with an open bar. I have not once been able to keep from giving him an "AAAAAAAAMEN!" when listening to this song.

Many other tracks such as "No way" and "Long Fingernail" really display his ability as a singer and songwriter and make no attempts at displaying his whole americana musical fusion thing. They are just good songs.

The title track, "Graveyard Shift", is so heavy that I want to lable it some sort of bizarre mutation of metal. It's hands down one of my favorite songs and is an ode to the working class.

Hell, the last track "Church Babies" is downright punk.

All the hyperbole in the world doesn't really justify this music. Well worth every penny spent. The only thing that keeps me from giving it five stars is that it may inspire someone to buy this album over his first. Both should be had, but in order.

Hellbilly at it's best.......2006-07-28

This is a prime example of hellbilly music. The band is great and tight, oh wait, that's not a band it's only one man Scott H. Birham himself. The music is rough and raw, and as the sticker on the album states, best when played very loud. Really, this album, along with his first album, are worth picking up no matter what kind of music you like. He's probably the only guy capable of challenging Hank Williams III for his position as the badest country boy you'll ever meet.

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Foghat Nightshift

Night Shift
Foghat
Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HEV8L4
Release Date: 2006-10-17

Tracks:

Drivin' Wheel
Don't Run Me Down
Burnin' the Midnight Oil
Night Shift
Hot Shot Love
Take Me to the River
I'll Be Standing By
New Place to Call Home [#][*]

Album Description

Reissue of this 1976 album by hard rockin' boogie merchants Foghat, produced by former Johnny Winter/Edgar Winter sideman (and future solo star) Dan Hartman. This reissue features the previously unreleased "New Place To Call Home", which was listed on the original LP jacket but was not featured on the actual album! Wounded Bird. 2006.

Customer Reviews:

Foghat Nightshift.......2006-12-30

As A rock/roll collector I have over 700 LP's and close to a thousand CD's
and this Foghat Album as it was in the late 70's is killer, Take me to the River is fantastic & blows the B52's or whoever did it by the way side. All of the tracks Rock, HRNT What a album, Go for it
Hawk

Anne Sofie von Otter - Speak Low ~ Songs by Kurt Weill / Gardiner

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Very Good
Excellent Weill Alternative to Lenya and Lemper
Everything is right but the style
Intelligent reading from both singer and conductor
Brilliant--The best of the 7 Deadly Sins recordings

Anne Sofie von Otter - Speak Low ~ Songs by Kurt Weill / Gardiner
Kurt Weill , John Eliot Gardiner , Anne Sofie von Otter , Bengt Forsberg , Hannover North German Radio Orchestra , Karl-Heinz Lampe , Frederick Martin , Christfried Biebrach , and James Sims
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001GM3
Release Date: 1995-03-14

Tracks:

Die Sieben Tods Prologue
Die Sieben Tods No. 1 Faulheit (Sloth)
Die Sieben Tods No. 2 Stolz (Pride)
Die Sieben Tods No. 4 Zorn (Anger)
Die Sieben Tods No. 5 Vrei (Gluttony)
Die Sieben Tods No. 6 Unzucht (Lust)
Die Sieben Tods No. 6 Habsucht (Avarice)
Die Sieben Tods No. 7 Neid (Envy)
Die Sieben Tods No. 8 Epilog
My Ship
One Life To Live
Buddy On The Nightshift
Nannas Leid
Bilbao - Song
Surabaya - Johnny
Das Leid Von Der Harten Nuss
Je Ne T'amie Pas
Schickelgruber
Der Abscheidsbreief
Foolish Heart
Speak Low
I'm A Stranger Here Myself

Amazon.com

Kurt Weill's ballet with songs is one of this century's greatest theatrical works. It has all the wit and melodic appeal of The Threepenny Opera and social conscience of Mahagonny, but more warmth and musical sophistication than either. It's also all over with in about 40 minutes. Some critics believe the piece was intended as a sort of love poem to Weill's wife, Lotte Lenya; given the tenderness of much of the music, it's hard to disagree. Lenya herself recorded the piece in the 1950s (a recording recently reissued by Sony) and this very much newer performance is welcome particularly for Anne Sofie von Otter's highly intelligent and musical way with the text. The other songs, from both Weill's Berlin and Broadway periods, make the perfect filler. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

Very Good.......2006-01-03

This is a very nice selection of Weill pieces showing the full range of his output. These range from the ambitious Seven Deadly Sins to songs from Happy End to some of his Broadway work. All are very interesting. The performers, particularly Von Otter, are excellent. Recommended strongly.

Excellent Weill Alternative to Lenya and Lemper.......2005-09-29

`Speak Low Songs by Kurt Weill' is a great addition to the performances of Herr Weill's works by the prominent mezzo-soprano, Anne Sofie Von Otter. I have listened to many performances by Weill specialists from the archetype, Weill's wife, Lotte Lenys, for whom many of the songs were originally written to Ute Lemper and Gisela May, who lean heavily toward Lotte Lenya's gravel-voiced interpretation of Weill's songs.

Anne Sofie Von Otter breaks with this tradition and gives us what are easily the sweetest interpretations of Weill's songs from both his German and English works, which I have heard anywhere.

The flagship performance on this disc is `Die Sieben Todsunden' (`The Seven Deadly Sins') which was a cycle of songs to be sung on the stage, accompanied by dances done by a second performer. This takes the first nine (9) tracks and is at least as good as what I have heard from Weill specialist, Lemper. This album is the first time I have noticed that there are two versions of this work, and that Ms. Von Otter is performing the version for soprano.

But, I think the most moving performances come later, especially in von Otter's performances of the three numbers from `Happy End', `Bilbao-Song', `Surabaya-Johnny', and `Das Lied von der harten Nuss' (Song of the Big Shot). I have heard these done by many people, but never so sweetly. These numbers are so lovingly performed that I insist that you ignore the fact that the lyrics are in German. The accompanying booklet gives English translations, which I simply ignore and enjoy the musical talent with no filter. My understanding German has nothing to do with this, as I do the same with French, which I can just barely make out.

Kurt Weill may not be the most important influence on American musical theatre in the 20th century, but he is easily in the top five, along with the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers and collaborators, and Cole Porter.

Ms. Von Otter is ably accompanied on this disk by her favorite pianist, Bengt Forsberg plus the Norddeutch Rundfunk orchestra directed by John Eliot Gardiner. While I really like her selection on this disk, the collection makes me wish Ms. Von Otter would do some more Weill and spend less time hanging out with Elvis Costello, but that's a different story.

Everything is right but the style.......2005-09-24

Weill and Brecht defined a nasty age with nasty art, writing some of the grittiest satire in the history of music. In this CD von Otter misses that edge, skirts all the dangerous, sleazy implications, and ultimately sounds too much the opera singer slumming it for an hour. Her earnestness is no subtitute for the right period style, a la Lotte Lenya.

Intelligent reading from both singer and conductor.......2005-01-27

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS is such a brilliant mini-masterpiece (and, to me, the pinnacle of the Brecht-Weill years) that it is hard to screw up. It is a testament to the staying power of this work (and to the brilliance of Weill's music in general) that it can be performed by the likes of Lotte Lenya, Julia Migenes, Ute Lemper, Judy Kaye, Marianne Faithfull, Teresa Stratas, and -- as here -- Anne Sofie von Otter, and STILL work... and EACH of these women are totally successful in the piece on their own terms.

Here, Anne Sofie von Otter gives us an intelligent (and highly musical) rendering of the text, keeping the musical line very much intact. She sings with vibrato at times, and then will turn around and use straight-tones at moments where it is dramatically appropriate to do so. She balances the performance well, shifting gears between cool detachment (which she is often criticized for) and impassioned outbursts (which her critics often fail to notice).

John Eliot Gardiner surprised me with how easily this music seemed to come to him, especially as he seems to be a man more at home with "Period-Instrument-Mozart" than highly charged 20th century works. However, his reading of "The Rake's Progress" by Stravinsky was totally staggering. For example, his choice beginning the climactic moment of the score ("Envy") as slowly as he does caught me very much off guard at first, and I didn't really care for it at all. However, with each successive listen, I find myself "getting" this choice more and more.

Finally, the "filler." As to be expected, she is more successful with the European material than she is with the songs from Weill's Broadway years. But this is the case with about 99.9% of all opera singers who try to sing Weill's Broadway scores. You will never hear any singer give "Je ne t'aime pas" a more hauntingly beautiful, passionately intense performance than Anne Sofie von Otter. Truly, the ultimate interpretation of one of my favorite Weill songs. "Nannas Lied," "Der Abschiedsbrief," and the HAPPY END selections. However, "My Ship" and "One Life to Live" seem to fail at catching fire -- the former because it is marred by an attempt to sound like a "pop singer," the latter because von Otter sings English better than native speakers (she knows where the ACTUAL emphasis in the phrase "nothing: the thing is to have fun" goes, as opposed to where Ira Gershwin placed it). I also -- surprisingly enough -- don't care for her performance of "Schickelgruber" -- she just seems totally lost to me. (I really think that this song is foreign territory to 'legit' sopranos and mezzos -- I don't even care for the Stratas rendition.) Just when I thought I would have to suffer through another bad batch of "opera-crossover," Anne Sofie turned around and surprised me by giving highly successful performances of the numbers from ONE TOUCH OF VENUS (especially on "I'm Stranger Here Myself").

All in all, a worthy purchase: highly recommended to all fans of THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS and Kurt Weill enthusiasts.

Brilliant--The best of the 7 Deadly Sins recordings.......2002-10-12

Weill, and particularly anything Brecht-Weill, has suffered for too long with interpertations based on tired ham theatrics, burlesques of Lenya's style, to the point where we have come to expect it as the only way to sing this music. Lenya herself is said, late in life, to have commented that a better singer (specifically Stratas at that time) would be more appropriate for properly interpreting Weill's music.

Here, after countless CD releases of the Seven Deadly Sins, is the first recording sung in the key the composer originally intended! The result is relevatory, sublime and magnificent.

Ms. Von Otter interprets the rest of the songs with mixed results--all are lovely, several are excellent, though several others have been handled better by singers with more "theatrical" talents. Nevertheless, this recording stands alone, head and shoulders above the others.

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Escape to Nature and the Universe
Fantastic listening music
Truly Inspiring

Polar Shift: A Benefit for Antarctica
Various Artists
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Polar Shift: A Benefit for Antarctica

ASIN: B000006J6P
Release Date: 1991-06-11

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Theme From Antarctica - Vangelis
Secret Vows - Yanni
Pura Vida - Chris Spheeris
Song For Antarctica - Yanni
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Watermark - Enya
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Customer Reviews:

Escape to Nature and the Universe.......2005-04-08

Disappointed, I saved my broken "Polar Shift" tape, thinking I might never again hear this enchanting and moving music. It had found it's peace perhaps in "Antartica" if there is a place for broken music. I have never since found an album that moves me like Polar Shift. In 2003 I visited Alaska and since have bought music like "Glacier Bay" and "Pacific Blue" but still think Polar Shift is the most inspiring rendition of the feelings when you fly and walk the Artic deserts or even dream of it, like I did over a lifetime. I am hopeful that some of these wonderful artists will also create an album about Alaska's Artic and especially about ANWAR before the oil industry trespasses its fragile earth. I saw very few animals in Prudhoe Bay among the oil drilling and pipelines, but beyond that, in the Artic circle, saw 17-19 wild musk oxen, an endangered species. There are only 350 of these animals left and most of them are in ANWAR. What a shame we are giving up the remaining 5% of the Alaska coast when the oil industry can drill the other 95% already. ANWAR will only produce oil for 6 months! Read Jared Diamond's books about the end of civilizations like the Anasazi because of their own environmental errors. We may be next. The air in the Artic is like drinking fresh spring water and "Polar Shift" puts you there.
Mary Ann Diekmann April, 2005
Cincinnati, Ohio

Fantastic listening music.......2004-04-21

This is a great relaxing and also uplifting CD. I recommend it highly!

Truly Inspiring.......2004-01-08

I don't usually listen to "New Age" music, but about ten years ago I was spending the night at a friends house and she put this CD on as we went to sleep. I absolutly fell in love. This album transports you to the windy, snow swept arctic. Visions of black, starry skies and endless polar plains are portrayed in this beautiful music. If you purchase one album for relaxation and inspiration-buy this one. You won't regret it.

Subconscious Communications:Paradigm Shift

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Constantly blown away.
Without Puppy, there's... this!
A Subconscious Masterpiece!
Every c.Key/D.R.Goettel fan should have this CD!
Exceptional Find

Subconscious Communications:Paradigm Shift
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Call the Ambulance Before I Hurt Myself
III
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ASIN: B000005DC9
Release Date: 1997-02-25

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Power - Aduck
Touched - Philth
Zonk Lift - Download
Grasshopper - Plateau
Zxy World - Doubting Thomas
Georgie The Parasite - Tear Garden
Glae Bastards - Dead Voices On Air
Beflepia - Kone
Blowfish - Doubting Thomas
Burnout - Aduck
Melt - Skinny Puppy
Message 3 - Tear Garden

Customer Reviews:

Constantly blown away........2004-02-20

I am just listening to this album now for the second time. Half the songs on here leave me slack jawed with awe and reaching for the CD case to see what artist is playing. Tear Garden sound like they are trying to be SubCon's version of The Cure though?!? LYRICS?? WHAT??
With that exeption, all the songs on here are at least good. I only bought it for the Download song, so I am WELL impressed. Wild Planet is pretty good, too. Can't say which IS best - like I said, I've only just got this one. And WHO the HELL are 'Kone'? That track is AMAZING. Can we have some more please?

Without Puppy, there's... this!.......2000-10-05

This is a great compilation of side projects from the Key catalog. My only gripe is that the Tear Garden material seems out of place on this release. Although I like Tear Garden, it detracts from the compilation's techno/industrial feel. Nevertheless, the rest of the disc is excellent, especially the songs from ADUCK. I'll miss him very much! Brap on.

A Subconscious Masterpiece!.......2000-06-10

This is the best compilation album on the market right now. Buy It! If you are even a little into electronic music... Buy It! It blew my mind & still does! :-} Highly recommended Anyway.

Every c.Key/D.R.Goettel fan should have this CD!.......2000-01-21

If you enjoyed Skinny Puppy's music for the incredible melodies and noises coming from apparently dischordant chaos, get this CD. If you are an electronica fan and want to listen to some of the best stuff ever to come out of Vancouver, get this CD.

Not really for "industrial" fans, though - this is probably a little too tame.

Exceptional Find.......1999-09-12

This CD provides fans the chance to obtain seven unreleased tracks from Skinny Puppy related bands such as Download, Doubting Thomas, and The Tear Garden not to mention the original Subconscious 001 release with Aduck (dwayne goettel's solo project). In my opinion, the previously unreleased song Melt by Skinny Puppy alone is worth the money.

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big!!
Reconstructed Soul
Finally, the Best Soul Album of this decade

Space Shift
Steve Spacek
Manufacturer: Sound in Color
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Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

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Thursdays
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The Hills
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3hrs Of Fun
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Slow Baby Dubb
I'm Glad..
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Product Description

1. Hey There
2. Thursday
3. Dollar
4. Days of My Life
5. The Hills
6. Reversible Top
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8. Slave
9. Slow Baby Dubb
10. Smoke
11. I’m Glad You’re Here
12. Look Into My Eyes

Format: CD

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big!!.......2006-06-11

this guy is on a whole other level, when it comes to neo soul music. I absolutely embrace the sheer individuality!! i love how each song sounds different, but still kinda has its jittery, electronic, spaced out sound 2 it.. can i get an AMEN to the tune 'Dollar'... laaaawd have mercy!!! that tune cudnt play the whole way thru with me, cos i kept rewinding it!! BIG TUNE!!!.. the production is splendid!! (RIP Jay Dee. one of many of ur finest)..
this album isnt 4 any and any1.. u have to be READY!.. doesn't hurt to take a listen though. it will b worth it!!

Reconstructed Soul.......2006-05-03

I was lucky enough to grow up near Detroit, where the soul & R&B hits just kept on comin' in the 1960's. Steve Spacek honors--and completely reconstructs--that music. In "Dollar" he breaks apart the structure of a traditional soul ballad, and turns it into one beautiful, suspended, note after another--ornamenting it with his voice. Very baroque. Every song seems like a completely new idea. With this album, I think Steve Spacek has completely rewritten the book.

Finally, the Best Soul Album of this decade.......2006-01-18

This is the type of album you want everyone to hear. Every track is good. If you haven't heard Spacek before, he is an electrosoul multiinstrumentalist, producer and vocalist. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he does all of these things equally well, and he also has something to say. He is heir to both the legacies of Marvin and Curtis: Steve plays it cool. Think "Trouble Man" or "Let's Get it On" with a Mayfield falsetto. Both musically and lyrically, he avoids cliche and keeps things fresh. Richly textured sounds and a beautiful, distinctive voice make this an album just right for slipping between the sheets... but the beats keep heads nodding right along. A jittery, glichy, cut-up style of beatmaking is his trademark, though this album is earthier and less spaced-out (no pun intended) than his previous albums; it is a more satifying listen from start to finish (this is also the first album released under his full name, as opposed to his "group" Spacek). This is the Spacek album we always knew he could make. Flawless.

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Move along, nothing to see here...

This Is Acid Jazz, Vol. 2
2 Tuff , Nightrains , and Heavy Shift
Manufacturer: Instinct Records
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Lonely Blues - Mitch Moses' Acid Blues Project
Never Stop - K-Collective
Keep On - Jazz Not Jazz
Trance Jazz - Exodus Quartet
Bongo Breakdown - Nightrains
Wide Angle - James Taylor Quartet

Customer Reviews:

Move along, nothing to see here..........2001-12-29

Closing in on ten years old, this album is sounding dated. You might consider shopping around for a better mix. Compilations are always a mixed bag, and this is no exception -- when I picked this up in '95, I only enjoyed a few of the funkier tracks. The rest were a bit repetitious and didn't find the groove I was looking for. Today, there's maybe one that I still enjoy.

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new boards of canada, perhaps better !!!
The wait was torture, but this eases the pain....
incredible

Blue Shift Emissions
Christ
Manufacturer: Benbecula
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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Pocket Symphony

ASIN: B000K4X2XS
Release Date: 2007-03-06

Tracks:

Substation
Happyfour Twenty
Making a Snow Angel
Ganky
Stained Century
Cordate
Holobenthic Grex Venalium
Blue Shifty Missions
Breathe Between Sleep
Vernor Vinge
Balaam

Album Description

This is Scotland-based Christ.'s long-awaited second full-length release on the Benbecula label. Following the intermediate Vernor Vinge EP of 2006 and the Seeing and Doing EP in 2005 which journeyed through an introspective path, Christ.'s new album is a return to the melodic fold and builds upon his unique, individual style that was unleashed to the world via Pylonesque, his outstanding and best-selling Benbecula debut. Blue Shift Emissions glistens with simplistic beauty underpinned by subtle yet expertly crafted washes of sound. Tracks like ''Cordate'' have been Christ.'s trademark from pre-Benbecula days, and one only has to marvel at the recording of this live, single-take keyboard piece to fully appreciate the influence he has had. Christopher Horne was an early participant in the nebulous Hexagon Sun collective, and as a result collaborated with Boards of Canada, appearing on the Twoism album. Christ. strips back electronic melody to its purest form and when you have the talent, foresight and confidence in the originality of your music, less is definitely more.

Customer Reviews:

new boards of canada, perhaps better !!!.......2007-05-30

incredible stuff !!!! i buy electronics albums every weeks and i think this is a very incredible album, soothing melodies, everything i hope for an album, my recent favourite stuff are : apparat;walls , fennesz;cendre , maps; we can create , dextro;consequence music , seventeen evergreen, colleen;les ondes silencieuses , and so on

my favourite of all times are boards of canada, massive attack, fennesz, manual, death in vegas, bloody valentine, isan, lali puna, godspeed, mogwai

The wait was torture, but this eases the pain...........2007-05-16

I lived in Edinburgh scotland for 6 months in the fall of 02 and just started then to get into electronic music. Christ., from Edinburgh based Benbecula, is one of my all-time favs, having this ridiculous sense of melody. I love lo-fi electronica in general for having a "future-of-the-past" type of feel, like how the future used to be imagined. This leads to the sound having a certain freshness and yet a nostalgia as well. Blue Shift Emissions is a wonderful specimin. Now if he could only do a show in the States, or re-release the old stuff....

incredible.......2007-05-06

this album is unbelievable. i have been on a never-ending quest to find music that satisfies me as much as music has the right to children, and this album really got my hopes up when i saw residentadvisor.net give it a 5/5 AND mention that the artist collaborated with BOC in the early 90's. it's funny that to truly experience this album i had to allow my childlike excitement dissapate a little bit and put on my headphones late at night; but it is a welcome addition to escapism.

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Erpland/Jurassic Shift
Ozric Tentacles
Manufacturer: Recall Records UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Rock Jam Bands | Jam Bands | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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Bits Between the Bits/Sliding Gliding Worlds

ASIN: B00020QYX0
Release Date: 2004-05-31

Tracks:

Eternal Wheel
Toltec Spring
Tidal Convergence
Sunscape
Mysticum Arabicola
Crackerblocks
Throbbe
Erpland
Valley of a Thousand Thoughts
Snakepit
Iscence
Gift of Wings

Tracks:

Sunhair
Stretchy
Feng Shui
Half Light in Thillai
Jurassic Shift
Pteranodon
Train Oasis
Vita Voom
Feng Shui [Live]

Product Description

Erpland:
Eternal Wheel giToltec Spring giTidal Convergence giSunscrape giMysticum Arabicola giCrackerblocks giThe Throbbe giErpland giValley Of A Thousand Thoughts giSnakepit giIscence giA Gift Of Wings

Jurassic Shift:
Sun Hair giStretchy giFeng Shui giHalf Light In Thillai giJurassic Shift giPteranodon giTrain Oasis giVita Voom giFeng Shui (Live)

Format: CD

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