Exposures

Exposures

Track Listings

1. Forth – Dusk 2 Dawn (Reprise)

2. Trafik – Kaleidoscope

3. Momu – The Dive

4. J-Punch – Temple

5. Chuck N' Roll – Playing Dirty

6. Polekat – Dancin Queen

7. Solar Plexus – Solar Plexus

8. Jeff Bennet – Swapping

9. Carlos Fauverelle – Operator

10. Logic Box – Liquid

11. 5th Order – Sineweaver

12. Pako & Frederik – 45 Minutes

13. Fresh Moods – Price

14. Honeyroot - Starshine

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
This is the fifth release in the Global Underground sampler series. It brings together the highlights and finest tracks of from the past eight GU releases and put them together on one continuous mix CD once again mixed expertly by The Forth. Tracks have been selected from: Deep Dish - Toronto, Danny Howells - 24:7, Lee Burridge - 24:7, Steve Lawler - Lights Out 2, Electric Calm 2, and Pako & Frederick.

Exposures includes over 60 minutes of the choicest cuts in underground electronica from around the world, and it works as a unique introduction to the sound of Global Underground and as a seamless stand alone mix for both newcomers and hardened clubbers alike.

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Exposures: In Retrospect & Denial
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Essential Compilation

MUST OWN

An Excellent Collection

Talk about quality...

Great introduction to a great band.

Exposures: In Retrospect & Denial
Dark Tranquillity
Manufacturer: Century Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00024I37Q
Release Date: 2004-06-15

Tracks:

Static [#]
Poison Well
In Sight [#]
Misery in Me [#]
Cornered
Exposure
No One [#]
Yesterworld
Unfurled by Dawn
Midwinter (Intro)/Beyond Enlightenment
Vernal Awakening
Void of Tranquility

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Wonders at Your Feet [Live]
Treason Wall [Live]
Hedon [Live]
White Noise/Black Silence [Live]
Haven [Live]
Punish My Heaven [Live]
Monochromatic Stains [Live]
Indifferent Suns [Live]
Format C: For Cortex [Live]
Insanity's Crescendo [Live]
Hours Passed in Exile [Live]
Sun Fired Blanks [Live]
Damage Done [Live]
Lethe [Live]
Not Built to Last [Live]
Therein [Live]
Zodijackyl Light [Live]
Final Resistance [Live]
Ex Nihilo [Live]

Customer Reviews:

Essential Compilation.......2006-02-18

Besides being the absolute best melodic death metal band out there, Dark Tranquillity is also a band that knows how to take care of its fans. Their 2-disc compilation Exposures - In Retrospect and Denial is a perfect example.

Most American metal fans are resigned to the fact that other markets, particularly the Japanese, get exclusive bonus tracks added to their albums. Japan consumes a LOT of metal, so I can see how this practice makes sense. But it is a source of frustration for those of us who are die-hard fans and want to have every song a band releases. Unless we're willing to drop $30 or more on a Japanese import, we'll never hear the "full" album.

This is why Exposures rules. Dark Tranquillity has collected all of the various bonus tracks, b-sides, and demos that were otherwise unavailable and released them in one package. Many of the tracks are from later in their career, but there are some early tracks as well. They're all quite good, but I've come to expect nothing less from this band.

As if that weren't enough, the band has added a second disc to the package - a live album that is the audio companion to their Live Damage DVD. This disc sounds great, and would have been worth buying on its own.

When it's all said and done, you get 31 tracks on 2 discs, and all for the price of a regular CD. Compare that to Soilwork's 5-track rarities EP that retailed for about the same price and you get an idea of why Dark Tranquillity has such a devoted fan base.

MUST OWN.......2005-11-10

WOW! This is the only band that has off the wall unreleased materals that is just as good as their albums. A band that has B-sides this good is truly talented. I love DT's experimentaions and how artistically they develop a certain theme for their releases. I totally dig their lyrics and I love the fact how they stay true to their sound; even with these experimentations. They are truly brilliant and remain as my fav melodic death metal band of all time.

An Excellent Collection.......2005-08-24

This double disc album is a collection of b-sides and early demos, as well as a whole other CD with their live performance in Krakow, Poland, which can also be seen on their "Live Damage" DVD. Disc 2 is excellent for any fan of live music. The production is wonderful and the band plays perfectly. Vocalist Mikael Stanne's voice does sound a bit different than on CD, but wouldn't one expect that? He runs short of breath a few times, but not enough to ruin the song. Really, not even enough to effect the song period. But as I said, the musicians play flawlessly, tearing through each fast-paced riff with amazing precision. And not to mention the set list is perfect for any big D.T. fan.

So disc 2 is excellent, but what about disc 1? The first track, "Static", is a slower paced track, featuring excellent lyrics and beautiful music. "The Poison Well" is a bit faster, but just as good, though a little less memorable. Other standout tracks include "In Sight", which might come as a shocker to those expecting the heaviness that most D.T. songs feature. The song is entirely sung; no growling, screaming, anything. And it's sung in quite an awkward voice. Fans who have heard Stanne's clean vocals before know should know what I'm talking about, but for those who don't, it's a very manly, operatic type voice, basically the last thing you'd expect from someone who growls like a madman half the time. His clean voice is a little odd, but it grew on me. "In Sight" is a simply beautiful song, and why it didn't make it onto "Haven" is beyond me. Perhaps it was just too different from the rest of the album. "Exposure" is quite a thrashy little number, once again featuring excellent, compelling lyrics, and possible one of the catchiest riffs D.T. have ever played midway through the song. It's an odd rhythm dual guitar assault, with brilliant hi-hat work from Anders Jivarp. It's definitely the standout of the song. "Cornered" also features great, catchy riffs.

Now, the demos on disc 1 are the only real down point of the entire collection. As I'm sure you've heard, they feature current In Flames vocalist Anders Friden on vocals (Mikael Stanne plays guitar). Had no one told me that before, I'd think it was some dude who's now in a black metal band; he sounds absolutely nothing like himself. He sounds...really, really bad. The music is excellent however. It's a bit darker and more drawn out than D.T.'s present day material, kind of resembling Opeth. The songs are longer, and each has a LOT of lyrics. "Unfurled by Dawn" and "Void of Tranquillity" are equal in length to two Cradle of Filth songs' lyrics put together. And if you've seen COF's lyrics, you'd know what I'm talking about. Ok, maybe that's a stretch, but I'm saying, if you're someone who likes to memorize lyrics, you might be a little challenged here.

Anyway, another problem with the demos is the quality; it's just bad. Not the quality of the songs, but the quality of the sound. I think maybe one or two demos would have been sufficient, but no one's gonna wanna listen to 5 of those when you have the rest of the collection to listen to.

So...should you get this album? If you've never bought a D.T. album before, start with something else. But if you're a big fan of the Swedish masterpiece makers, be my guest and by this album as soon as you can.

Talk about quality..........2005-05-27

It's true that DT hasn't released a bad song. Even the ones they didn't release before are just amazing. The songs resemble Haven and Projector, as there is some singing as well. Consider yourself buying a new 100% authentic LP through this release. Next, we have the live tracks, which is also worth the price considering they've never released anything like this. Dark Tranquillity is without a doubt the best melodic death band, who have shown their consistency in giving us great releases throughout the years.

Great introduction to a great band........2004-10-03

I would suggest this set to anyone new to DT. The extensive 2-disc set spans the career of the mighty Swedish death outfit. The live disc shows a great mix of old and new captured on the Damage Done tour. For the price, you would be hard pressed to find a better value in the metal world at this time. Fantastic release from a fantastic band.

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...cool showcase stuff from Global Underground.

Exposures
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Global Underground
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00018D3E6
Release Date: 2004-03-30

Tracks:

Forth Dusk 2 Dawn (Reprise)
Trafik Kaleidoscope
Momu The Dive
J-Punch Temple
Chuck N Roll Playing Dirty
Polekat Dancin Queen
Solar Plexus Solar Plexus
Jeff Bennet Swapping
Carlos Fauverelle Operator
Logic Box Liquid
5th Order Sineweaver
Pako & Frederik 45 Minutes
Fresh Moods Price
Honeyroot - Starshine

Album Description

This is the fifth release in the Global Underground sampler series. It brings together the highlights and finest tracks of from the past eight GU releases and put them together on one continuous mix CD once again mixed expertly by The Forth. Tracks have been selected from: Deep Dish - Toronto, Danny Howells - 24:7, Lee Burridge - 24:7, Steve Lawler - Lights Out 2, Electric Calm 2, and Pako & Frederick.

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...cool showcase stuff from Global Underground........2004-09-14

Global Underground releases are undeniable proof that house music doesnt have to be the commercial tripe played in many clubs played around the world.

It can indeed be intelligent electronica, yes, to dance to, or yes to feed your ears with beats that don't insult. This compilation does great justice to a label that has taken great care in harboring some of the big names in the house scene, names that have cared for some of the most groundbreaking house music in recent times.

It comes for a cool price, and it has tunes for all tastes. Big atmospherics, great beats, intelligent melodies, sometimes on the dark side sometimes not, and overall totally worth it.

Its biggest asset, like all great compilations, is all the names you're given the chance to discover while listening to some seriously good and catchy electronica. In that respect "Exposures" is a small treasure grove and the title is more than fitting.

Give this a try and discover a label that respects the listener and artists that arent ripping you off by copying others or by throwing together some cheap beats and calling it a day..

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Igloo Magazine's REVIEW
not much to chew on
Another Great Eastern Developments Release

Lost Recordings 2000-2004
The Exposures
Manufacturer: Eastern Developments
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00080EUBM
Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

Collage of Digital Passion
Knack
Ein Lied Fu Thyssen-Henne
Theme of 'Ifs and & Buts'
Machine Under Influence
Dad Freundliche Rocksichord
Pos-Crossings
Sake Rock

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Igloo Magazine's REVIEW.......2005-12-02

Review by: Michael Upton at igloomag.com (05.16.05)
Although the press and jokey liner notes for Lost Recordings 2000-2004 are a lot of fun, don't let them distract you from what becomes clear when you listen to the CD. Despite the detailed biography of The Exposures and the song history for their music, this is most definitely a new Jan Jelinek record. More than that, though, it is far and away my favorite thing he has done since his full length debut Personal Rock (as Gramm, Source Records).

When I interviewed Jelinek a few years back he explained that he is listens to a lot of rare groove, reggae and soul. Although the album La Nouvelle Pauvreté (by Jan Jelinek & The Exposures, ~scape) started to reveal these influences more obviously, Lost Recordings 2000-2004 is the first release on which they really take over. I love all this stuff, as well as my nerdy bleeps and bloops, so it's almost like he was thinking "I'll give that guy down under exactly what he's always wanted."

Quite a few artists into bedroom electronics have taken to absorbing the lessons of hip-hop producers, but this album is more of a parallel evolution from shared influences. There's a bit of the boom boom clap, there are cut up samples from jazz, soul and funk, but no faux scratching, no phrases out of rap acapellas, and no (head) nods to either the Neptunes or Timbaland.

The other aspect of this recording that is worth picking out is that while the overall sound is approachable and generally quite cheerful, the details are quite prickly. Loops of sampled sound expand and contract across the head-nodding beats. It's a technique Jelinek pulled out on his loop-finding-jazz-records, but is much more successful here, where it lends a strange, artificial swing to the already funky source material.

I enjoyed the record so much I don't even see the point in delving into individual tracks. There are eight tunes on the short CD, in-keeping with most other releases on Eastern Developments. All eight are very worthwhile if you're interested in an adventurous approach to downbeat music or other releases by Jelinek.

not much to chew on.......2005-11-26

The Exposures first came to the public eye on their collaboration with Jan Jelinek on his release La Nouvelle Pauvreté a couple years back. At the time, the mysterious group even went on a short tour with Jelinek and performed the songs, but before that time and since then, they've kept a low profile. Now, the group has dropped an EP of what are supposedly their Lost Recordings from 2000-2004, including a paragraph of background for each track. If it all seems like a bit too much explanation for such a rather staggered output, it very well may be. Some have suggested that The Exposures is yet another pseudonym of the prolific Scott Herren himself or simply a ruse by Jelinek.

Regardless of who is behind the tracks on this eight track and twenty-four minute release, there isn't a lot here that hasn't been done before and better by others. "Collage of Digital Passion" opens the release with a super repetitive rhythm loop and samples of the word "love" dropped all over the place. The track fails to really do much more than meander while "The Knack" stutters another rhythm sample (with upright bass) alongside some other breathy jazz samples but fails to really coalesce into anything during it's short running length.

"Ein Lied Für Frau Thyssen-Henne" steps things up a bit with a low-rolling, glitched-out track that clips some warm xylophone hits on a loping beat for some good fun while "Post-Crossings" is the closest thing that the album has in terms of a beat that might make you shake your booty. Elsewhere, "A Machine Under The Influence" and even the closer of "Sake Rock" just come off like underdeveloped instrumental hip-hop tracks that just sort of meander along for a couple of minutes before fading out. Considering the release is "Lost Recordings" that span a five-year timetable, this short release might just be part of an elaborate joke by someone, and if more people like me buy into it, whoever is behind it should have a good chuckle on the way to the bank.

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Another Great Eastern Developments Release.......2005-08-22

This album is a great 'bread and butter' album. This is the kind of stuff that keeps my life going. More beautiful music from Scott Herron's (not the Gil) superior record label. http://www.easterndevelopments.com

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La Nouvelle Pauvreté
Jan Jelinek Avec the Exposures
Manufacturer: Scape Germany
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000AL2Z2
Release Date: 2003-02-10

Tracks:

Introducing
Music to Interrogate By
Facelift
There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)
My Favourite Shop
Trust the Words of Stevie
If's, And's and But's
Davos S (Trio 'Round Midnight)
Waste Land

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Elevators of the Future
Clickhouse moves from theory to comfortable practice
Junkmedia Review- A bit of a disappointment

Nouvelle Pauvrete
Jan Jelinek & Avec the Exposures
Manufacturer: Efa Imports
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007J4UX
Release Date: 2003-02-11

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Elevators of the Future.......2003-11-01

Jan Jelinek's new album, Le Nouvelle Pauvreté, is not unlike partaking in the orgy scene from the movie "Eyes Wide Shut." The opening track insinuates the sound of an all-glass elevator whisking you up 250 floors to a secret, and elitist, new nightclub strictly for your aural pleasure. Once the doors open, you begin slowly walking around a room full of people who have no idea who you are, yet everyone in the room is completely intrigued by what is taking place around them. There's sort of a silent grace that begins to tug at your coat tail, and this is a night your soon not to forget. The DJ, who just happens to be Jan Jelinek, is playing Le Nouvelle Pauvreté, his new album. It's less spacious and glitch-y than its older brother, Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, but who are you to care?

The overall vibe of La Nouvelle Pauvreté sounds more like Jelinek's Farben experiments, which focuses more on the idea of getting his listeners on the dance floor than on a train with a pair of headphones. However, the high level of perfection has not been eliminated from Jan's formula. The main thing, though, that sets this album apart from Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records is the lack of involvement with record static and spaciousness. The beats are more at the forefront of the process, and there are even lyrics present by yet another of Jelinek's apparent aliases, Avec the Exposures.

While glitch music is becoming incessantly harder to individualize, Jelinek proves that he is still a very forward-thinking composer who always opts for the side door out. La Nouvelle Pauvreté is no exception to this rule. Fans of his work will be pleasantly surprised by this new outing by Germany's premier glitch artist.

Clickhouse moves from theory to comfortable practice.......2003-03-19

Electronic music in 2003 isn't quite the realm of wide-eyed discovery that once seemed part of its very nature. After the dawn of the techno era in the late eighties, its evolution seemed less a matter of paradigm shifts than a constantly unfolding internal imperative. Despite this tendency in electronic music toward constant, critically ungraspable change over sudden stylistic leaps, some notable artists did send it spinning off into hitherto unforeseen directions. Autechre comes immediately to mind, with that group's prismatically skeletal aesthetic informing much of "IDM" to this very day. Another unambiguously groundbreaking artist was Oval, whose cd-skip samples and use of digital errors signalled the dawn of the Glitch. Several years after Oval's emergence, the glitch, the click, the cut, the pop, and the skip are a constant presence in the landscape of contemporary music.

Understandably, many have grown weary of the way these sounds and techniques have com to dominate electronic music over the last three years or so. By my reckoning, however, this aesthetic has simply been absorbed into the stylistic toolchest; at hand for today's electronic musician along with synthesis, sampling, dub techniques, dancefloor mechanics, etc.

The artist possibly most at ease with clicks/glitches as intuitive tools is Jan Jelinek. Recording as Farben, Gramm, and under his own name, Jelinek has a knack for making minimal electronic music with both an unmistakable personal signature and a sense of moody warmth. On 2001's acclaimed "Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records", rolling washes of muffled clicks rhythmically washed over atmospheric, jazzy melodies, while dub bass rumbles and unobtrusive house beats held down the bottom end. "Nouvelle Pauvrete" combines this approach with the more overtly funky skippety rhythms of his Farben works to create an assured set of hazy late-night grooves with just a touch of lounge quirk. "Facelift", with it's multi-pitch, slurred narration has a mysterious, shadowy vibe. It's quietness almost obscures the incredibly funky bounce of it's fluid rhythms, while detuned horn samples wheeze through the murk. "If's, And's, and But's" is another standout, where Jelinek indulges his love of sweeping disco strings (previously most evident on some Farben tracks) to a degree he's never before dared, while demonstrating his improved ability to smoothly work his samples into his tight rhythmic matrices. The rest of the cd deals in greater and lesser degrees with sampled loops and more microscopic abstraction, but all within an understated, tastefully minimal context

With glitchmania beginning to subside, electronic music has entered a period where quality and feel will win out over mere novelty. Jan Jelinek, at home in the altered sonic landscape of the post-glitch era, continues to quietly prove himself a major creative force.

Junkmedia Review- A bit of a disappointment.......2003-02-19

The ~scape label is one of Germany's prize performers in the world of contemporary dub. Releases like Kit Clayton's Nek Salanet, Burnt Friedman & the Nu Dub Players' Just Landed, the unpronounceable Staedtizism compilation series and all of label-founder Pole's records have explored new applications for the classic ingredients developed and dilated in Jamaica.

You've caught Jelinek in the act before: he records as Farben on Klang Electronic to much acclaim, has an album on Source Records under the name Gramm, and released the album Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records in 2001 on ~scape. Unlike Farben's minimal house groove, Loop-Finding channeled the tempting waters of swing rhythms and raspy old 45s while retaining the sub-bass of classic dub.

I had high hopes for Jelinek's new offering, whose title reads as "new poverty" in English translation (or perhaps less literally, "the new poor," an inversion of "nouveaux riches"). A French vibe of poverty, baguettes, seedy nightlife, and desperate actions. Then I put on the CD. Poof.

Gone were my Francophile leanings, replaced by a promising first couple of songs -- "Music to Interrogate By" could sit comfortably next to Jelinek's Farben output. Things seem to be fine. And then we get into the meat of the album, which is chiefly concerned with lounge melodies and finger-snapping coolness, occasionally emphatic enough for a dancefloor ("My Favourite Shop" and "If's, And's, and But's" [sic]), but usually in the contemplative/chill-out vein ("There Are Other Worlds [They Have Not Told You Of]" and "Trust the Words of Stevie"). On these latter two tracks, a mysterious, somewhat unintelligible voice accompanies the narcotic-tinged music. This must be the contribution of the "Exposures."

Reminiscent of a previous ~scape release by Burnt Friedman, Jelinek has enlisted the help of a mysterious supporting cast to help him maneuver this terrain. The press release states "...The Exposures act as his fictitious backing band, Jan Jelinek's Alter Ego and extended self, bolstered by the new, carefully introduced rock references." Ok, sure, but -- rock references? The album's melodic and rhythmic structures are far more indebted to mid-20th century American jazz and swing than anything else, much less rock. Perhaps this is a translation issue, or simply the label reps trying to weave meaning out of thin air. In any event, rock fans take note: it's unlikely you'll find anything to gnaw on here.

What you will find is Jelinek's characteristic knack for savvy production techniques and sounds, thrown into a stale "sipping martinis in the afternoon shade" vibe. We're not in the same territory as Loop-Finding, which is good and bad. While Loop-Finding was a thick and dusty testament to groove, "La Nouvelle Pauvreté" is much more concerned with a Jimi Tenor-esque coolness -- think Las Vegas smoke-filled halls at 4:45 AM. I hate it when sounds are subjugated to inessential attitude, especially when that attitude isn't inviting in the least. Ultimately, the majority of this album fails to keep my attention and is an unfortunate misstep from a nonetheless competent and interesting producer.

Ben Gill
February 10, 2003
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Intimate Exposures
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Intimate Exposures

Manufacturer: MPL Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000BUFTZ0

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14 tracks

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Solitary Exposures

Manufacturer: Scott M. Rifkin the Exploration
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000CA7JNO
Release Date: 2005-03-01

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Exposures: In Retrospect And Denial
Dark Tranquillity
Manufacturer: Century Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000LWSHV6

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