New Vibes

1. Joe Le Taxi (performed by Sharlene Boodram featuring Vybe)

2. The Message (performed by Ziggy Rankin featuring Candice)

3. Clear De Way (performed by Chantwell)

4. Crazy Times (performed by Schizophrenia)

5. Maturity (performed by Rustee & Karla)

6. Doh Stop (Paradise Mix) (performed by Kindred)

7. Ain't We Funkin' (performed by Bushmen)

8. Girls Girls (performed by Detrimental)

9. Life (performed by Kindred)

10. Chutney Time (performed by Sharlene Boodram)

11. Drug Baron (performed by Detrimental)

12. Chant (performed by Poetic Religion)

13. Morning Ground (performed by Chantwell)

14. Look Behind (performed by Ninja Kat)

15. Blue Blue (performed by 3 Canal)

16. Silent Storm (performed by Roger Israel featuring Detrimental)

New Vibes,Various Artists,Rituals Reocords,Calypso / Soca / Steel Drum,Caribbean,Contemporary Reggae,Int'l & World Music,Pop,World Music

Average customer rating: Classic, but not the definitive... Essential

Steve Reich 1965-1995 Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Reich, Steve | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music London Philharmonic Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: The John Adams Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective Two Pages: Contrary Motion - Music in Fifths Iannis Xenakis: Percussion Works Music with Changing Parts Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano ASIN: B000005J4P Release Date: 1997-06-03

Tracks:

1. Come Out
2. Piano Phase
3. It's Gonna Rain, Part I
4. It's Gonna Rain, Part II
5. Four Organs

Tracks:

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Tracks:

1. Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ
2. Clapping Music
3. Six Marimbas

Tracks:

1. Music For 18 Musicians: Pulses
2. Music For 18 Musicians: Section I
3. Music For 18 Musicians: Section II
4. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IIIA
5. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IIIB
6. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IV
7. Music For 18 Musicians: Section V
8. Music For 18 Musicians: Sectionn VI
9. Music For 18 Musicians: Section VII
10. Music For 18 Musicians: Section VIII
11. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IX
12. Music For 18 Musicians: Section X
13. Music For 18 Musicians: Section XI
14. Music For 18 Musicians: Pulses

Tracks:

1. Eight Lines
2. Tehillim: Part 1: Fast
3. Tehillim: Part 2: Fast
4. Tehillim: Part 3: Slow
5. Tehillim: Part 4: Fast

Tracks:

1. The Desert Music: First Movement
2. The Desert Music: Second Movement
3. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part One
4. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part Two
5. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part Three
6. The Desert Music: Fourth Movement
7. The Desert Music: Fifth Movement

Tracks:

1. Works: New York Counterpoinnt: Fast
2. Works: New York Counterpoint: Slow
3. Works: New York Counterpoint: Fast
4. Works: Sextet: 1st Movement
5. Works: Sextet: 2nd Movement
6. Works: Sextet: 3rd Movement
7. Works: Sextet: 4th Movement
8. Works: Sextet: 5th Movement
9. Works: I. Strings
10. Works: II. Percussion
11. Works: III. Winds And Brass
12. Works: IV. Full Orchestra

Tracks:

1. Works: Different Trains - America - Before The War
2. Works: Different Trains - Europe - During The War
3. Works: Different Trains - After The War
4. Works: Electric Counterpoint - Fast
5. Works: Electric Counterpoint - Slow
6. Works: Electric Counterpoint - Fast
7. Works: Movement I
8. Works: Movement II
9. Works: Movement III

Tracks:

1. The Cave: Typing Music
2. The Cave: Who Is Abraham?
3. The Cave: Who Is Ishmael?
4. The Cave: Genesis XVIII
5. The Cave: Genesis XXI
6. The Cave: The Casting Out Of Ishmael And Hager
7. The Cave: Machpelah
8. The Cave: Genesis XXV
9. The Cave: Interior Of The Cave
10. The Cave: Surah 3
11. The Cave: El Khalil Commentary
12. The Cave: Who Is Abraham?W
13. The Cave: Who Is Sarah?
14. The Cave: Who Is Hagar?
15. The Cave: Who Is Ishmael?
16. The Cave: The Binding Of Isaac
17. The Cave: The Cave Of Machpelah

Tracks:

1. Proverb
2. Nagoya Marimbas
3. City Life: 'Check It Out'
4. City Life: Pile Driver - alarms
5. City Life: 'It's Been A Honeymoon - Can't Take No Mo'
6. City Life: Heartbeats - Boats & Buoys
7. City Life: 'Heavy Smoke'

Amazon.com essential recording

In the afterglow of his 60th birthday in 1997, Nonesuch Records delivered Steve Reich and his listeners an immense gift, this 10-CD retrospective of his work for the label, extending from his earliest tape-manipulation pieces to his most recent compositions utilizing samplers and the video artistry of Beryl Korot. Aside from the ear's liquid sense-making when it hears the dense and limber marimbas of Reich's Six Marimbas or his taut, dizzying Piano Phase, there is a physical response almost inevitable in Reich's music. It stuns and holds you. And he knows it. It's Gonna Rain struck an early chord of inventiveness, featuring an African American Pentecostal preacher's sermon and eventually spinning the title phrase into a jangling repetition of single words. Percussion works abound here: Clapping and Drumming stun with their deceptive similarity and warm clarity. Perennial favorite Piano Phase features pianists Nurit Tilles and Eduard Neumann synched up on two pianos and careening at full tilt in unison before their four hands fall out of time and phrase with each other, only to realign in a powerful swooping demonstration of energy and focus. The latter CDs hold abundant delights, many revealing Reich's late-discovered spiritualism and Judaica: Different Trains' examination of the Holocaust; Tehillim's shimmering Hebrew texts sung with fascinating choral power; Proverb's invocation of Perotin. Closing the set are recent pieces: Nagoya Marimbas, and the sampler-rich City Life and The Cave. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

Classic, but not the definitive..........2004-05-20

While a multi CD collection spanning 30 years does sound very promsing, Nonesuch cannot offer all of the best recordings of some of Reich's masterpieces (Music for 18 Musicians or Drumming), and some have been missed out completely (Music for a Large Ensemble), presumably because the piece was not recorded under the Nonesuch label. While the collection is formidable, a listener wanting to hear the best recordings of all the pieces might do better seeking out the older (or longer!) recordings of the pieces.

Essential.......1999-02-24

The term "essential" gets thrown about too much. And heck, the claim that certain words get thrown about too much gets thrown about too much. But here is a collection that really *is* essential to understanding the nature of a whole shift not just in classical music, but in popular music and indeed in popular culture. So many of Reich's ideas and concepts have become so deeply embedded in current classical music, film scoring (any number of examples, but think about Tangerine Dream's score for "Risky Business" and Hans Zimmer's score for "Thin Red Line," for starters), electronic music and even the visual arts.

This box set gives the listener all of Reich's major works. I can't even attempt to describe them individually, but every one of these 10 CDs is compelling. For the totally uninitiated, take out "Music for 18 Musicians" (presented here in a crystalline new recording) to get an idea of what the core of this guy is all about. From there, you might want to listen to "Different Trains," "Electric Counterpoint" and "Six Marimbas" to get an idea of the pointillistic pulse minimalism that Reich contributed to the world. The earlier material is the more challenging, exploring the subtleties of rythym, phase relationships between sounds and shifting timings. Among these, the new recording of "Four Organs" is just outstanding.

Reich's works, along with the early works of Terry Riley and Philip Glass, form the foundation of an enormous edifice that has grown of music that attempts to return to its essential and hypnotic roots. With this box set, one of those pylons becomes clear.

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St. Moritz Vibes Vol. 4: Les Fleurs du Mal Various Artists Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Suite Royale: St. Moritz Vibes, Vol. 2 St. Moritz Vibes Man Ray, Vol. 1 On the Seventh: Park Hyatt Chicago Man Ray, Vol. 3 ASIN: B000ENC75Y Release Date: 2006-03-28

Tracks:

1. Walk on the Wild Side
2. All I Need
3. Take Me Higher
4. Servant
5. Sticks and Stones
6. Whatever
7. Music
8. Woman Enough (Apology)
9. Busted Trees (Middlefield Remix)
10. Feel
11. We Shall Overcome
12. El tango
13. Roady
14. Luv 4 the World
15. Wonderful Make Believe Story

Album Description

Combining electronic beats including down-tempo, hip-hop, reggae, swing, funk and others, Les Fleurs du Mal transforms the Badrutt's Palace Hotel into a musical journey across the globe. Expanding on the previous volumes, this compilation updates the listener on the most current electronic music movements.

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St. Moritz Vibes, Vol. 3 Various Artists Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Suite Royale: St. Moritz Vibes, Vol. 2 St. Moritz Vibes Vol. 4: Les Fleurs du Mal St. Moritz Vibes Man Ray, Vol. 1 ASIN: B00074CC3C Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

1. Feel Like Making Love
2. Wanna Get
3. Chasing Places
4. Forbidden Colors
5. Fruit Sugar
6. Power Brain
7. Evil Vibrations
8. Boogie Down Stureby
9. Someone to Love
10. Adios Nonino
11. Afro Brazilero
12. I Gotta Go
13. Samba De Gilles
14. Jo Jando Capoeira
15. Sin Palabras

Album Description

Milan Records is proud to release the third volume of the St. Moritz franchise, Saint Moritz-Late Vibes (Vol.3) On Late Vibes, Hi Perspective-the up-and-coming Parisian producers/DJs-compiled some fo the best underground tunes of the moment and graced this album with some of their work.

Average customer rating: An audience-pleaser EXTREMELY MOVING Not his best It is very Interesting But It Definatly Grows on you

Steve Reich: The Four Sections / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ Michael Tilson Thomas , Bob Becker , Russ Hartenberger , Garry Kvistad , Edmund Niemann , James Preiss , Pamela Wood Ambush , Rebecca Armstrong , Jay Clayton , Timothy Ferchen , and London Symphony Orchestra Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Reich, Steve | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sextet/Six Marimbas Steve Reich: The Desert Music - Michael Tilson Thomas Drumming Reich: Triple Quartet, Music for a Large Ensemble, Electric Guitar Phase Steve Reich: Octet; Music for a Large Ensemble; Violin Phase ASIN: B000005IZS Release Date: 1990-09-24

Tracks:

1. The Four Sections: Strings (With Winds And Brass)
2. The Four Sections: Percussion
3. The Four Sections: Winds and Brass (with Strings)
4. The Four Sections: Full Orchestra
5. Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ

Amazon.com

Steve Reich's music is based around the phase shifting of percussion instruments. Even when he uses a larger ensemble--or a whole orchestra--you can still make out the percussion underneath. It's always there. In The Four Sections he takes a simple theme on the strings, then punctuates the flow with precise, percussive effects. It is very engaging music, some of the best this composer has written. Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ is a tour de force. Once again the percussion rules. Here the organ and voices provide the undercarriage for all sorts of wondrous mallet instruments to flow over the top. --Paul Cook

Customer Reviews:

An audience-pleaser.......2001-01-16

A CD intended as an audience-pleaser. Both pieces are Steve Reich saying "Thank you" to his fans & trying to win over a few more, while also advancing his ideas. Four Sections was composed for Michael Tilson Thomas, so this performace will always be the root definitive. That the London Symphony Orchestra performed it so beautifully, as part of a Reich retrospective in 1988 was also a statement.

Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ (1973), composed for Reich's own popular ensemble, casts an exotic spell; African drumming through the sort of gamelan some imaginary Pythagoreans might have played if they had those kinds of bands. Wonderful, delicate music.

In both works the changes happen fast enough & the music is over almost before you can say "minimalism."

EXTREMELY MOVING.......2000-04-04

It is state of the art avante-garde classical music. The first four tracks, (The Four Sections) were written for orchestra. They are not in the traditional Steven Reich instrumentation, i,e, mallets and percussion, but they are super modern, highly emotionally charged pieces that are my favorites by this composer.

Not his best.......1999-11-28

This CD is a mixed bag. FOUR SECTIONS is Reich's least sucessfull piece. The orchestral writing is uninspired. On the other hand, the Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ - represents the composer at his best. Recorded sound on the latter work is super.

It is very Interesting But It Definatly Grows on you.......1998-12-04

In 1998 The Westerville North Marching Band played The Four Sections for Bands of America contests across the US. None of us liked it at first it was too weird, If you listen to it and appreciate what Steve Reich is trying to do here It is a wonderful Masterpiece. If you don't appreciate what he is trying to di It will Grow on you I promise.

Average customer rating: 5 stars for 2 tracks Fun trip to downtempo Bollywood if you see it get it

Spirit of India: A Pure Selection of Electronic Vibes Various Artists Manufacturer: Wagram ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD India | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00006Q0P0 Release Date: 2002-09-24

Tracks:

1. Dil Mai Durad - T.J. Rehmi
2. Trust in Me - Roudoudou
3. My Guru - Dan the Automator
4. She's My Lover (A Song for R.) - Kid Loco
5. Transcendence
6. All in My Mind - Athome Project
7. Flying Cheese Nan
8. Dampsehiff - Dzihan,
9. Waking Moon - Jah Wobble
10. Bengali Song - Nitin Sawhney
11. Stay Right Here - Better Daze
12. New Beginning
13. NGC 224 [Sporto Kantes Remix] - Mukta
14. Ordinary Life - Tpopmusik
15. Ali Mullah - Natacha Atlas, Transglobal Underground

Tracks:

1. Hand of Contraband - Up, Bustle and Out
2. Same Beat - Bill ''Ravi'' Harris,
3. Mathar [Discovery of India Mix] - Indian Vibes
4. Missione a Bombay - Nicola Conte
5. Single Orphan First Year Camel - Loop Guru
6. Doin' It With Shiva
7. Sexy Dancer [Original Mix] - Rozzo
8. Homelands - Can't Find [Joe Clausell Mix] - Nitin Sawhney
9. Asian Detective - Badmarsh, Shri
10. Rivers of Dub - Asian Dub Foundation
11. Release Me [Da Lata "El Duderino" Mix] - Robert Miles
12. Last Gospel [Pressure Drop Bam Boom Mix Edit] - Fun^Da^Mental
13. Kirwani [Badmarsh and Shri Mix]
14. Revolution of the Heart - Temple of Sound
15. Siya Dengelela Kgonyama [Roni Size Mix]

Album Details

The Cover Art Looks Like It's Straight Outta Bollywood, but the Music Within Quite Simply, Otherworldly. Some of the Best Tracks in the World from Major Dance and Trance Artists Are Assembled on this Double Disc Wonder: Nitin Sawhney, Thievery Corporation, Transglobal Underground, Natacha Atlas, Telepopmusik, Asian Dub Foundation, Robert Miles, Jah Wobble and Many More. The Feel of the Tracks is Western in Nature with Flourishes of the Orient Distinctly at the Base. Drums and Beats Abound of all Varieties. The Flow of this Set is Very Similar to the First Volume of "Buddha Bar" and the Caliber of the Material Presented is Just as Good. Whether You're in the Mood for a Chillout Or Getaway, Party Or Dinner, Or Just Need Some Great Music to Put on the Disc Player, this Collection Wonderfully Fits the Bill.

Customer Reviews:

5 stars for 2 tracks.......2005-08-02

This CD is worth buying just for the Dan the Automator track and the amazing cover of Trust in Me from Disney's The Jungle Book. Too bad there isn't a preview on Amazon!

Fun trip to downtempo Bollywood.......2005-04-19

Picked this up somewhere in Asia. It was a blind purchase that sold me because of the familiar western artists like Jah Wobble and Asian Dub Foundation. And a nice surprise. Some very original sounds done in accessible fashion by some people I would have never heard elsewhere. All have some element(s) that make each distinctively Indian without sounding fake. So yes its authentic.

Many will make the crowd move, many will make you smile.

About the only negative for me was that some tracks simply go on too long in a groove that while tasty, really doesn't evolve into anything more than when you first met it. So that is a sort of unimaginative mix that can quickly bore me.

So yes if you are making mixes, this can make great interstitials and some tracks work entirely. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

if you see it get it.......2003-03-26

i recently bought this double disc in toronto. I was just feeling indian music at that time so i bought it and it had a dan the auto mater track. overall its got some chessy dance tracks but overall a great album and as a person who is in to hip hop mainly i loved this album.

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Founder of the Jazz Vibes: 1930-1944 Lionel Hampton Manufacturer: Jazz Legends ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music New York Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000D1FGZ Release Date: 2005-02-01

Tracks:

1. Memories Of You
2. Moonglow
3. Jivin' The Vibes
4. Stompology
5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
6. I'm Confessin'
7. Ring Dem Bells
8. Shoe Shiner's Drag
9. Sweethearts On Parade
10. Memories Of You
11. When Lights Are Low
12. Haven't Named It Yet
13. Singin' The Blues
14. Till Tom Special
15. House Of Morgan
16. Just For Laffs
17. Three-Quarter Boogie
18. Exactly Like You
19. Flying Home
20. Flying Home No.2
21. Hamp's Boogie Woogie

Album Description

At the time of Lionel Hampton's discovery in 1936, the vibraphone had only made an occaional appearance in jazz as a novelty instrument. Soon, Hamp and his unique instrument were in great demand: he became one of Benny Goodman's top attractions and led many all-star groups featuring the greatest names in swing. Trace the rise of the vibes through these thrilling early recordings of the instrument's founder and master!

Average customer rating: Rejuvenation Solo Didjeridoo Healing Session

Healing Vibes Paradiso Manufacturer: Only New Age Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: When Angels Dream, Vol. 2 Rainbow Serpent: Music For Didgeridoo & Percussion Didgeridoo: Ancient Sounds of the Future Didgeridoo Groove Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires ASIN: B0009XNXE8 Release Date: 2005-01-04

Tracks:

1. Chakra Clearing
2. Cleansing Soul
3. Receiving Current
4. Radiant Moon
5. Cricket & Dragon
6. Traveling Laser
7. Waves of Light
8. Dancing Wolves
9. Astral Realms
10. Lapis Atmosphere
11. Past Lives Now
12. Healing Bee
13. Grounding Roots

Product Description

"Healing Vibes" is a live Healing session with Didjeridoo Healer Paradiso. "Healing Vibes" was recorded in 3-D produced by Suzanne Doucet and Chuck Plaisance. Chuck Plaisance's recording system is designed to simulate human hearing, using a binaural head microphone to capture the depth, height, width, as well as directional movement. Therefor no special equipment is needed to get 3D sound from traditional stereo speakers.

Customer Reviews:

Rejuvenation.......2007-05-23

When listening to this CD, one can feel sound waves traveling in the brain and then passing to the other parts of the body. When I first listened to this CD before going into sleep, I got the feeling that this CD leads to rejuvenation. At that time, I haven't seen the review below. It might be that the 3-D recording of didgeridoo sound stimulate some important structures in the brain, may be pineal gland ?.

Solo Didjeridoo Healing Session.......2005-11-29

This Album is one of the most unique CDs I have heard so far. Very hypnotic! A live healing session. When you close your eyes you can feel the sound playing your body. Paradiso virtually plays up and down your spine, around your head and into your arms and chest. When I listen to healing vibes, I go into a trance like state and when the CD is finished I feel refreshed, relaxed and rejuvenated! I would recommend this CD to anyone - especially if one needs healing energy, this is one of the most effective sound healing tools to use.
Natascha Larsen, California

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House of Vibes Manufacturer: Ground Up Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Giant on the Beach Summer of a 1000 Years ASIN: B000AM30L4 Release Date: 2004-04-06

Tracks:

1. Out of Today
2. Salad Days
3. Close Descending Love
4. Realize
5. Someone
6. Embraces
7. Always Come
8. Don't Belong
9. Haunted
10. Realise
11. Before I Close My Eyes
12. Walking In the Crowd

Product Description

Tracks: 1.Out Of Today 2.Salad Days 3.Close Descending Love 4.Realize 5.Someone 6.Embraces 7.Always Come 8.Don't Belong 9.Haunted 10.Realise 11.Before I Close My Eyes 12.Walking In the Crowd RARE import debut album, long out of print.

Average customer rating: Not good, not bad Boy, is my face red... Nice Effort marred by near-misses and total disasters Well produce but still disappointing.... Mike Oldfield done wrong...

Tubular Vibes: Mike Oldfield Tribute Various Artists Manufacturer: Cleopatra ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Conan The Barbarian: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ASIN: B000059T7I Release Date: 2001-02-20

Tracks:

1. Tubular Bells, Pt. 4
2. Taurus
3. Guilty
4. Jewel in the Crown - Abdul Sahid
5. Funkie Tubular Bells
6. Moonlight Shadow [Unplugged Version]
7. High Place
8. Get to France
9. Moonlight Shadow [Dance Version]
10. Blue Incantations
11. Five Miles Out
12. Red Incantations
13. Tubular Countdown

Customer Reviews:

Not good, not bad.......2001-04-13

I have received the CD today and I put in the CD reader. Some of the tracks are really interesting, some of them are very bad.

I'm not sure if this CD made only for money or it is a real value. Let me lesson the tracks one more time...

Dance version of Moonlight Shadow is REALLY interesting

Vlad(x)

Boy, is my face red..........2001-03-30

My review of this album closed with this line:

All in all, this is not a collection... but it could have been quite a bit better.

That should have read: All in all, this is not a BAD collection...

OF COURSE, this is a collection! :)

(And to think I faulted the writing in the liner notes. Karmic justice?)

Nice Effort marred by near-misses and total disasters.......2001-03-29

When it comes to cover tunes, I expect the artist doing them to either breathe new life and new aspects into a song or at least transmit excitement for the music in question that (hopefully) inspired them to make the cover. This is particularly true of "tributes," like 'Tubular Vibes' claims to be.

In some cases, the artists (Northern Europeans, based on the accents of the singers) for this album deliver exactly what I expect. In others, they fail to a greater or lesser degree.

Standout pieces are 'Tubular Bells Part 4,' 'Taurus,' 'Jewel in the Crown,' the two 'Incantation' tracks, and the 'Tubular Countdown.' They are nice reworks of Oldfield instrumentals that give a sense of fun and wonder... that make me feel as though the performers love this music as much as I do. 'Jewel in the Crown' is a particular favourite of mine... and I might even like it better than Oldfield's version. ('Jewel' has always stood out in my mind as one of the weaker parts of 'Tubular Bells 2.')

The "unplugged" version of 'Moonlight Shadow' and the straight cover of "To France" (titled 'Get to France' for whatever reason) are excellent reditions of those songs. 'Get to France' in particular has some nice moments.

That's eight out of 13 tracks that I think are excellent. Beyond them, however, there isn't much worth mentioning.

'Guilty' and 'High Place' may be okay... I can't judge them well, because I don't like the Oldfield versions. All I can say is that these are not improvements on the originals. 'High Place' is a lack-luster cover of 'In High Places' and the version of 'Guilty' here has all the weaknesses of the orginal and none of the raw energy.

However, the "dance" version of 'Moonlight Shadow' and 'Five Miles Out' are such crimes against the original songs that I've knocked a full star for them. That might seem a bit steep, but try listening to them next to the original Oldfield versions. The 'dance' version is uneven enough in its beat to even make it tricky for use in techno/rave settings--and while I may be an old fogey by some standards, I CAN tell you that the orignal 'Moonlight Shadow' was plenty dancable. It was played a lot in the club I frequented when the song was a hit--and there are aspects of the track that feel like it was someone's practice effort with the mixing board that accidentially made it onto the released album, with some of the vocals chopping and repeated in particularly pointless ways. Further, the beautiful tune of 'Moonlight Shadow' is close to unrecognizable.

'Five Miles Out' however is the absolute worst on the collection. I might even stray into the territory of hyperbole and say it's the worst cover of a song I've heard, ever. While it was impossible for the performers to demolish the strong tune that's at the heart of 'Five Miles Out,' they did their damndest by laying down a Latin-leaning beat and generally delivering a song about a pilot coming in for a landing during a storm in an astonishingly cheerful fashion. What's worse, the lines spoken by the incoming pilot have been run through a synthesizer and are distorted to the point where the listener can't make out what he is saying. I suppose partly why I dispise this track so is both because I love the Oldfield version so much, but also because I've often wondered what another artist could do with it. The only think they could have done worse with this cover, however, is to have played the main theme on kazoos. (Come to think of it... that might actually have improved it...)

Something else that made me knock off a star was an annoying presence of static on many of the tracks. I at first thought I was having problems with my stereo at home, so I played the disc at my office as well. No... it wasn't my sound system... it's the disc. I can only imagine that there's an engineer out there who thinks that such fuzziness is either Oldfieldy or just 'edgy.'

Finally, while this has little to do with the music, the packaging annoyed me slightly. The liner notes consist of empty rehashes of the 'Tubular Bells' story, something I imagine most of the purchasers of an album like this have already read more than one version of. Worse, the language is clunky in places and the editing is sloppy. That space would have been much better used if each of the recording artists had given us a few sentences about WHY they chose to take the approach of to the tracks they did. It would also have been nice to know why the titles of the songs were changed.

All in all, this is not a bad collection... but it could have been quite a bit better.

Well produce but still disappointing...........2001-03-23

Sorry, but this compilation of MO Remakes doesn't work.

I love most of Mikes work (though I think, he doesn't deliver the same quality nowadays as he did some decade(s) ago) and i like the idea of other artists performing there own variation of his songs...

...but this tribute just sounds to sterile and uninspirational to me. Don't get me wrong: Tubular Vibes is not all bad, but I could easily live without it.

Remember the "Synthesizers Greatest Hits"-Series? If you liked it, go for Tubular Vibes, if not - let it be. I hated those albums, so maybe Tubular Vibes too just isn't meant for an audience like me.

Some of the tracks I liked:

- The Funkie Tubular Bells - The Red Incantations - The Tubular Countdown

Most tracks were produced by Ulrik Rey Henningsen (web site), the rest seems to be produced by some other danish artists.

If your really interested in MO-Tributes, don't forget to check out the fan-driven "Static 18" Project, which you should find easily on the web...

Mike Oldfield done wrong..........2001-03-18

I would not recommend this album to most Mike Oldfield fans. This is more of a massacre than a tribute. I really disliked most of the tracks on this album. Many, like "The Funky Tubular Bells," were painful to listen to. There were two versions of "Moonlight Shadow," one of Mike's better "pop" pieces, on the CD, and both were equally terrible. "[In] High Places" just doesn't work without Jon Anderson's vocals, and the musical mix is pretty bad to boot. The only tracks that were not too bad were the remixes of "To France" and "Jewel in the Crown"...and these were closer to the originals than any of the other tracks on the CD. "The Tubular Countdown" wasn't bad either...in fact, it's probably the best of the lot, not that that's saying much... ;)

I think that only a rave/dance fan who also happens to be an Oldfield fan could really like this CD. I love Oldfield's work, but I do not like most rave/dance music, so this CD really turned me off. Unless you're into rave/dance, I'd avoid this one.

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New World Music: Elysian Vibes, Vol. 2 Various Artists Manufacturer: New World Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Relaxation | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Elysian Vibes ASIN: B0009Z0XJY Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

1. Luna - Ganga
2. Champa - Mind Soup
3. Still - Afterlife
4. Jello - Lux
5. Autumn Leaves - Bob Holroyd
6. Freshwater (Timbers Mix) - Ian Cameron Smith
7. Moody Moon - Dao
8. Beautiful Day (Frontera Remix) - Laidback
9. Estha - J. Viewz
10. Chihuly - OKA
11. Face West - Io
12. From The Lab (Afterlife Mix) - Numaro
13. Postcard - Remote

World Music:

1. Novo Millennium [Import]
2. O Irmao Do Meio [Import]
3. Olympia Deuxmilletrois [Import]
4. Olympia [Import]
5. Ouragan [Import]
6. Paddy Noonan's Scottish Party
7. Pan Pipe Dreams [Import]
8. Portrait de Scene [Live] [Import]
9. Ragalet [Import]
10. Raise Your Spirit Higher: Wenyukela

World Music

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World Music

Devil in Disguise [CD-single] [Import]

Uliyanich: Breathing of Cosmos

Violin [Import]

Fire Music

United States [Import]

Two Shoes [Import]

Vision [Import]

Waiting for the Night

UNA VEZ MAS

Ultimate Collection

Waved Out

Turkmenistan: Songs Of Bakhshi Women

Twister

Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano

Citrus