Points of Order

Points of Order

Points of Order

Editorial Reviews
All Music Guide, October 2002
...a cherishable solo recording of tremendous beauty and intelligence... 4 Stars.

Product Description
Legendary producer, composer and musician Bill Laswell's newest contribution to the Innerhythmic collection continues a gradual submersion into numerous experimental styles including drum-n-bass, mutant hip-hop, avant jazz, electronic dub and ambient vapor-drift...Trumpeters Toshinori Kondo and Graham Haynes deliver textural ambience and cyberjazz modulations over a wide expanse of driving dub pulses that have been generated electronically as well as acoustically - live drums are provided by Indian-born percussionist and producer Karsh Kale. Two pieces here are in collaboration with the ever-progressive Anti-Pop Consortium (comprised of Beans, Priest and M. Sayyid), whose signature rapid-fire rhymes create engaging, esoteric mind bombs that detonate the boundaries of hip-hop all over again. Augmented by the piano and electronic keyboards of veteran jazz and classical music composer Karl Berger, with hidden ambient traces decoded by guitar futurist Buckethead, ! Points of Order brings about, in a stream of sonic matter, the collapse of all distinction between music and sound - offering another glimpse off-world...another step toward the disintegration of styles and musical borders.

Points of Order

Points of Order,Bill Laswell,Innerhythmic,Dance Music,Points of Order once again shows Bill Laswell's cultural intuition, leading the latest motions of both hip-hop and electronic music, while continuing his passion for dub, trance, and the ambient amalgamation of them all.,Pop,Rock/Pop
All Songs Written by: Human Television
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Indie Pop that delivers in the catchy department
  • A Rose By Any Other Name
 All Songs Written by: Human Television
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Manufacturer: Gigantic
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002VEQW0
Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

  1. Saw You Walking By
  2. Tell Me What You Want
  3. I Forgot
  4. Yeah Right
  5. Automoblie
  6. Cars Are Weird
  7. Sick With Redundancy Check

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Indie Pop that delivers in the catchy department.......2006-07-04

These songs are really catchy. It takes me back to a lot of my favorite indie pop of the 80's and 90's. I hear early REM, The Feelies, The Barnabys, The Wedding Present, The Connells, The Bats, The Chills and other great bands when I hear this album, but Human Television really makes the sound their own at the same time. Jangly guitar is prevalent, but they also can rock. The vocals aren't very unique but are just sour enough to complement the poppiness of their songs perfectly.

4 out of 5 stars A Rose By Any Other Name.......2005-02-06

With a name like Human Television, you might think this Philly-by-way-of-Gainsville quartet sounds like the Human League or Television. But what's in a name anyway? On their debut EP, they sound more like REM--minus Michael Stipe's vocals--or the Wedding Present--minus (some of) the speed. If you like jangle: they're the band for you. At times, they even remind me of New Zealand's Chills, one of the best jangle bands of all time. That said, I think I prefer their harder-edged material to the soft. Here's hoping their first full-length has more songs like the driving "Sick With Redundancy Check" than poppy "Saw You Walking By."
Points of Order
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • An experimental excursion into darker depths of jungle-dub>>
  • It strongly reminds me Ki-Oku (DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo)
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Manufacturer: Innerhythmic
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ASIN: B00005R5LI
Release Date: 2001-11-13

Tracks:

  1. X29
  2. Staple Nex
  3. Broken Toenail Gland
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Album Description

Legendary producer, composer and musician Bill Laswell's newest contribution to the Innerhythmic collection continues a gradual submersion into numerous experimental styles including drum-n-bass, mutant hip-hop, avant jazz, electronic dub and ambient vapor-drift...Trumpeters Toshinori Kondo and Graham Haynes deliver textural ambience and cyberjazz modulations over a wide expanse of driving dub pulses that have been generated electronically as well as acoustically - live drums are provided by Indian-born percussionist and producer Karsh Kale. Two pieces here are in collaboration with the ever-progressive Anti-Pop Consortium (comprised of Beans, Priest and M. Sayyid), whose signature rapid-fire rhymes create engaging, esoteric mind bombs that detonate the boundaries of hip-hop all over again. Augmented by the piano and electronic keyboards of veteran jazz and classical music composer Karl Berger, with hidden ambient traces decoded by guitar futurist Buckethead, ! Points of Order brings about, in a stream of sonic matter, the collapse of all distinction between music and sound - offering another glimpse off-world...another step toward the disintegration of styles and musical borders.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars An experimental excursion into darker depths of jungle-dub>>.......2003-02-25

I'll be the first to admit I bought this album because I'm a sick Antipop Consortium fanatic, and when they first disbanded I blindly grabbed up anything I could find that might include any unreleased, non-album Consortium material (i.e. Infesticons/ Constant Elevation/ Isolationists/ various 12"). I mean, I own a few Bill Laswell projects that are classics for sure (w/Jah Wobble,w/Atom Heart, and his Miles Davis rmxs), but I don't know him well enough to suggest this album for true Laswell fans. There are a couple of tracks w/Buckethead that I CAN say Laswell/Bucket fans would both enjoy, and most of the tracks are very jungle-dub/ambient oriented; spacey keys, quick snares, low rolling baslines, revrbed trumpets, you know the science.
The Antipop MCs (Beans,Priest,Saayid) do appear on two tracks, one verse to each MC on each track. For me the 2 trks were worth the used price, but didn't make the entire album worth it's full price overall. There may be some Laswell fans that despise this release for the opposite reason, because he chose to collaborate with poets, when his excursions have been mostly instrumental, and, for the most part, well--ambient.
So, all in all, to convey this review's indirect, twisted message: If you're a big Antipop fan, and are willing to experiment with some jazzy-jungle-dub-breaks, or if you're a chillin Dubster who's willing to take a chance on some abstact-impressionist mic-controllers this is a release you may want to 'experiment' with..

4 out of 5 stars It strongly reminds me Ki-Oku (DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo).......2002-06-29

Well if you follow all my reviews, you'll see that I am no music expert. Usually I listen to the music while programming. Actually this is what I am supposed to do right now. Only its only hours since I bought the CD, and this is my first time listening. It strongly reminds me Ki-Oku (DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo). Maybe its because Toshinori Kondo is in this record too. I simply find Points of Order better than Ki-Oku.
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