Bytes

Bytes

Track Listings

1. Object Orient - Plaid

2. Caz - Close up Over

3. Carceres Ex Novum - Xeper

4. Phil (1)

5. Focus Mel - Atypic

6. Phil (2)

7. Olivine - Close up Over

8. Phil (3)

9. Clan (Mongol Hordes)

10. Phil (4)

11. Yamemm - Plaid

12. Phil (5)

13. Fight the Hits

14. Phil (6)

15. Merck - Balil

16. Phil (7)

17. Jauqq - Close up Over

18. 3/4 Heart - Balil

Bytes,Black Dog Productions,Warp Records,Ambient Techno,Club/Dance,Dance Music,Electro-Techno,Electronica,Experimental Techno,IDM,Pop,Rock/Pop,Techno

01 Bytes 10 Cordas
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Hamilton's Triumphal Live Concert Recording of Solo 10-string Bandolim

01 Bytes 10 Cordas
Hamilton De Holanda
Manufacturer: Biscoito Fino
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009X4TRS
Release Date: 2005-07-04

Tracks:

No Rancho Fundo
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Album Details

Live concert. Mandolin. 20 tracks. "Disparada", "Adios Nonino (with harmonic player Gabriel Grossi)", "No Rancho Fundo", "Ainda me Recordo", "samba-baden 1 Byte, 10 Cordas".

Customer Reviews:

Hamilton's Triumphal Live Concert Recording of Solo 10-string Bandolim .......2005-10-06

A live performance of unaccompanied mandolin/mandola is a rarity in and of itself. But that it is an electifying tour-de-force of compositions and virtuoso perfomance by a major world class talent makes this CD a simply stunning.

Hamilton de Hollanda, from Brazilia the national capital in central Brazil, is emerging as a major exponent of Brazilian choro/jazz. He performs on the (currently) 4 volumes of Beatles 'n' Choro, as well as his duos with Dois do Ouro, Marco Perreira and other collaborations, he has published a book of his compositions, and a concerto for bandolim and orchestra all before the age of 30. This summer he taught for two weeks at the California Brazil Camp at Cazadero.

The music he makes on this CD performing on the 10-string (5 pairs tuned C-G-D-A-E), can be sweet and soothing as easily as it is pulsating and dynamic. To say he takes his instrument to new heights would be an understament.

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Beautiful Bytes
N. Phect & Dizplay
Manufacturer: Groove Attack
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000G1R55G
Release Date: 2006-10-03

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White Russian
My Velvet Morning
Motor
Mofo
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Damn Wire [N. Phect & Dizplay's Goddamn Wire Remix] - Green Man
Deep Throat
Don't You See
Enjoy the Madness
Inside the Hive VIP
You Can Go On [N. Phect & Dizplay Remix] - Arjen Gorter,

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fnaar fnaar.
A pretty good early techno album.
An electronica/IDM landmark
A Classic From The Past That Is Presently Our Future
Like nothing else...

Bytes
Black Dog Productions
Manufacturer: Tvt
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003RG0
Release Date: 1993-06-25

Tracks:

Object Orient - Plaid
Caz - Close Up Over
Carceres Ex Novum - Xeper
Untitled - Phil
Focus Mel - Atypic
Untitled - Phil
Olivine - Close Up Over
Untitled - Phil
Clan - I.A.O.
Yamemm - Plaid
Fight The Hits - Discordian Popes

Amazon.com

Bytes is another classic album from Warp's sadly missed Artificial Intelligence series, coming from the hearts and minds of Black Dog Productions, a London-based musical collective and techno commune. At the time, their Discordian approach to electronic music bridged the gap between club-based techno enthusiasts and bedroom-based computer geeks. The combination of Ken Downie's fetish for Egyptian iconography and Arabic music with the mighty production talents of Ed Handey and Andy Turner (who later went on their own as Plaid) produced quite an engaging album; Bytes took the repetitive and atmospheric sounds of European techno and disrupted them with intricate polyrhythms and abstract melodies, breaking out of the 4/4 mould and embodying the spirit of jazz without coming across as snobbish or excessively complex. --Matthew Corwine

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fnaar fnaar........2005-03-13

heh, the first review of this is dated to 1999.only 7 years after it came out........if you weren't in UK between 92-94, listening to electronica, im truly sorry. you missed some absolute amazing drug enhancing musical times. AFX, FSOL, autechre, black dog, 808....wonderfull times. and this is a classic.

A pretty good early techno album........2004-03-01

The album does feel a bit dated, I'm afraid. There's a primitive feel to the production; the drums sound really artificial and the bass, when it's audible, has the tinny, bleeping sound associated with early techno. Because not all early techno albums sound like this, I would venture a completely unfounded guess that this is because Black Dog decided to go digital as early as possible. In the early nineties, this was doubtless a very forward-looking thing to do (like someone pointed out, the band members even have e-mail addresses - like, whoa, man!), but as a result, Bytes now exhibits obvious limitations, while other albums of the time that were recorded on analogue equipment can be reacted to in pretty much the same way as when they were released. Early MOD music suffers from the same drawback.

But production isn't everything, as I usually say when talking about electronica records. It's all about the songs, man, and this album sure contains some of those. The best tracks here have a refreshing, pristine sound that calls to mind the alpine landscape pictured on the cover; the best melodies have the feeling of walking around on a clear, breezy morning, with no destination in mind, and admiring nature. "Caz" is built on lovely synth-string melodies that actually benefit from the production - they sound just a little strained, but therein lies their charm. "Carceres Et Novum" starts off with an arresting, ghostly keyboard melody that I would have liked to see expanded into a whole track; of course it's soon subsumed by pounding drums, but soon some droning bass and a piano solo, of all things, are layered on top of them. "Focus Mel" plays short keyboard pulses against more drawn-out synthesizer textures in the background. These tracks develop slowly, but they don't stop developing, and they gradually draw one into a feeling of distant, cool melancholy.

The above three tracks are all arranged in a row at the very start, right after the pretty decent dancefloor opener "Object Orient," so the beginning of the album is very strong. But then comes "Olivine," which is just a repetition of one single little keyboard line for five minutes, and two more tracks later, just when the album kind of starts to regain its momentum, a very bad track called "Fight The Hits" kills it stone dead. In this track, the only non-percussive instrument is some kind of distortion that sounds like someone rhythmically dragging a giant piece of furniture across a room. Ten years since, whatever point this was supposed to make is good and lost. Fortunately, the album closes on a really high note, with "3/4 Heart," which has more harmonious synth-strings, and even an acoustic guitar towards the end. Also, the album contains seven short musical vignettes entitled "Phil." These are used as interludes in between the longer tracks, and they're actually quite good, adding some variety to the album.

Many reviews of this album mention the "polyrhythms," and indeed, the drum tracks here are not your average house beats. They're intricate, layered, and very prominent throughout the album. This can get a little overbearing sometimes - the melodies on the album are calm and reflective, and not very well suited to a whole wall of thumping drums, hissing, processed cymbals, and chirping bass, all going at some unusual time signature. The rhythms might be complex, but the very uniformity of this approach detracts from their originality, because nearly every single track has this kind of percussive craziness, without many breaks or much variance in tempo, sound and volume. The band put too much emphasis on this side of things, I think; aside from the drum tracks, there are good musical ideas kicking around on this album, as well as what rock journalists refer to as "hooks," but one can't help but think that the album would be much better if those ideas were taken even further. Every time I listen to Bytes, I like the good parts more and more, and I gradually become inured to the weaker parts, but I still think that excising at least "Fight The Hits," and probably "Olivine" as well, would make the record drag a lot less. Fifty-odd minutes, after all, is a perfectly reasonable length for an album, and there's no reason to make it longer if there just isn't enough good material. Ultimately, though, it may say a lot that the album is as good as it is, since it was never meant to be a cohesive statement - all of these songs started out as singles released independently of one another under different aliases.

Over time, Bytes has accrued the reputation of a lost classic, an early techno masterpiece from back in the day. Though out of print, it gets its share of name-checking and referencing, and sometimes makes surprise appearances on magazines' lists of the best techno albums ever. This might be due to the fact that two-thirds of Black Dog Productions later set out under the name Plaid, and garnered some critical acclaim. Additionally, Black Dog happened to be recording just as Warp Records, today the premier label for electronica, was getting started. At the time, Warp came out with a compilation called Artificial Intelligence, designed to promote the label as the place for the most groundbreaking new electronica, and followed it up with a series of albums by artists who appeared on that compilation. Bytes was third in this series, so perhaps the album's status has something to do with being at the right place at the right time. Still, the praise it has received is far from undeserved; if you see it in a used CD bin somewhere, by all means pick it up.

An electronica/IDM landmark.......2004-01-18

Probably one of the best albums ever released in the genre of electronica/IDM. What Black Dog did with 'Bytes' was to revolutionise how we saw electronic music, they set new standards which have rarely been reached by other artists. In fact, Black Dog never matched what they did with 'Bytes', though they did come quite close with 'Spanners'.

This is electronic music at its best. Ambient at times, always progressive and innovative. Black Dog showed techno didn't need to be aimed at the dancefloor. The drum programming on this album was also innovative for its time, few other artists having ventured to do it.

A Classic From The Past That Is Presently Our Future.......2002-03-14

I will say that it's by far been my favorite recording in my collection of roughly 400 CDs and 500 LPs since the first time I heard it almost nine years ago, and I'd say that's a major accomplishment. It, however, is not "definitive", because it's so unlike any other electronic release that it doesn't "define" anything except itself. That's a compliment. The majority of "electronic" music suffers from a major case of cookie-cutter-itis, and this release is a major exception. It's got all the things I love to hear in a song: uplifting melodies, harmony (yes, you heard me right. Electronic music with more than just a melody and bassline! Crazy, huh?), butt-moving complicated rythms, a few moments of just plain noise, and it manages to pull it off with a sort of "chillin' in the lounge of a space station in the year 3753" kinda feel. Simply amazing. If you're new to electronic music, don't expect to get a 4/4 in your face here. The real action in any type of music is always found between the beats, anyway. Other stuff worth checking out if you find this interesting: Derrick May "Innovator", Deltron 3030, Sun Ra "Somewhere Else", Amon Tobin, Prefuse 73, Plaid (of course), Mike+Rich "Expert Knob Twiddlers".

Like nothing else..........2002-02-28

Here, here! Please, our friends across the Atlantic, stop calling wonderful music like this "Trance." I mean, i don't like pigeon hole labels at all but Trance is not flattering. As another reviewer said, this album is everything dumb, sticks in the air trance is not.
Come to think of it though, if the reviewer from New York knows "dance" clubs that can get away with playing stuff like this, i'm on the next flight! I always wanted to listen to stuff like this outside my bedroom.
This is GONNA be one of the legendary electronic albums. Actually, it already is! Buy it and once you have got used to it...venture into "Temple of the Transparent Balls" Not as great as this, but still interesting. I haven't heard "Spanners" but i'm sure it's cool too.

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Reactivate, Vol. 9: Beats and Bytes
Various Artists
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10 years ago, Reactivate was probably the hottest underground dance music CD series in the World; consecutively pioneering the sound of European techno, trance and hard house to enthusiastic ravers and their respective scenes. Over its staggering 10 year tenure as the leading hard, underground club music brand it notched up 18 volumes and three best of's. Not bad for a concept that was largely ignored by the media at the time.

Now, with the nineties firmly in the rear view mirror, there has begun wanton nostalgic sampling of Belgian rave records on electro tracks, vintage trance included in cool dj sets and constant updating and reissuing of seminal classics on the hard dance scene. Therefore the time has now come to revisit 2 musical masterpieces that have not been available for 8 years but were essential kit for anyone with a weekend to obliterate and a fun-packed agenda in 1996!

"Reactivate 9 razorsharpbeats+bytes" was originally released in 1994 to much acclaim. Resplendent in Designers Republic Sheffield pop art jacket featuring a Shark, the album was co-compiled by DJ Blu Peter, resident DJ at the React label's Garage at Heaven night which was London's busiest weekly Friday club night for the best part of 10 years. The previous year Peter had picked up on a new underground club sound that was largely emanating from Germany and introduced it to the UK scene. Branding his reinterpretation of the burgeoning techno-trance sound Nu-NRG, for which he received recognition, he sought to put his playlist on plastic care of Reactivate, thus not only updating the series in the process but giving it a whole new lease of life. Featuring indestructible German dance anthems Marmion's "Schoneberg" and Jens "Loops & Tings", the album also included Patrick Prins's Peppermint Lounge and Britpack tracks from Sour Mash "Throwing Caution To The Wind" and his own anthem Elevator "Shinny".

Bytes
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timeless electronica barks again

Bytes
Black Dog Productions
Manufacturer: Warp Records
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timeless electronica barks again.......2005-07-02

Probably one of the most underrated releases from the Warp Records catalog, Black Dog Productions' "Bytes" is a classic piece of golden-era ambient-techno from start to finish. It's great to see Warp reissuing this cd along with other gems from the early ninties "intelligent techno"/"electronic listening music" boom.

The original release through Warp and WaxTrax in the states has been in regular rotation in my cd player since it came out here in the states over a decade ago. And still, it seems like yesterday since I first heard it.
This is another utterly timeless piece of rhythmic electronica chock full of colorful melodies both optimistic and melancholy. It is at once highly danceable yet suited nicely for home or car listening. Much of the music on this, and other early Black Dog/Black Dog Productions releases was obviously inspired by original stateside techno from the mid-to-late eighties and early ninties, especially by Detriot Godfathers Derrick May and Carl Craig. "Bytes" is the first of the three Black Dog full-lengths (when they were still a trio) and is arguably their best , spanning a diverse yet cohesive range in moods and tempos.

Due to artistic differences, the three-headed canine force known mostly as "the Black Dog" split up in the mid-ninties with founder Ken Downey keeping the name and keeping a generally low profile, and Ed Handley and Andy Turner sticking with their excellent former side-project known as "Plaid".

The packaging differs slightly from the original stateside release in that the graphics are crisper and more colorful with a few extra logos and details printed on the back. I've yet to actually pick up the reissue but assume the sound quality has improved (though the original's really never suffered in any way to begin with).

Black Dog's "Bytes" is a very electronic recording with a very human element at its core, posessing more character and sounding more emotional and alive than most rock or pop music being released today.

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A FINE Flutist!

American Flute

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april hello
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A FINE Flutist!.......1999-05-08

I am very proud to say Claudia Anderson was one of my first flute teachers.In 1970 as a very young woman,she was an outstanding performer and now she's even better.Her performance of the Liebermann Sonata is the most outstanding of any flutist I heard performe this piece. She'll make you fall in love with the piece and the flute. Buy the CD. You wont be sorry.

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Tya (Fra Bor Til Bytes)
Reidar Shar Karl Seglem
Manufacturer: Musikkoperatorene
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Track Listing - 1) Vatn 2) Tekse 3) Valsa 4) Stein 5) Gralys 6) Metall 7) Liv Og Sjel 8) Tehnologi 9) Tya

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Bert's Bytes
Bert van den Brink
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Release Date: 2007-08-07

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Commit to Memory

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ASIN: B000CA3JY2
Release Date: 2005-11-29

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Classical Bytes: Beethoven

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Turkish March - Berliner Philharmoniker
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