Rapid Transit

Rapid Transit

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Electronic: 12 tracks from Prefuse 73, Roots Manuva, East Flatbush Project, Push Button Objects, Sluta Leta, Ko-Wreck Technique, etc.

Tracks:

Club Morocco
Cascade Of The Seven Waterfalls
Through The Window
Remembering Milton
Festa Nativa
A Woman
Indian Pepper
Make Mine Guarna
Afternoon
Missing Doto
Somewhere In Brazil
I'm Just Looking Around
Montreux
Gate Of Time

Customer Reviews:

Milestone of Brazilian Jazz.......2007-06-22

This double set is very important in the Brazilian Jazz world, because it offers one of the best representatives of its genre in Cascades, also, this album is very hard to find now and one of the most sought-after ones by Azymuth loyal fans.
Azymuth has written an important page in the music industry; it's amazing and almost impossible to find groups or musicians who can release not only 2 albums, but 2 super albums in the same year, and that's exactly what Azymuth did back in 1982 when they released "Telecommunication" and "Cascades"; these two, are albums with an impressive level of musiquality hard to match anywhere; 5 of Cascades 7 cuts were extensively aired and reached high rankings on radio transmissions everywhere in the world in the 80's - 90's; these hits are:
1) Club Morocco / 2) Cascade of the Seven Quedas / 3) Through the Window / 5)Festa Nativa and 7)Indian Pepper.

Another amazing feat reached here by Azymtuh is that after 25 years; these super hits sound soooo modern and up-to-date because they didn't use musical formulas that easily fade away. Not to be missed by Jazz and Brazilian Jazz fans out there.

Smooth Jazz and Funk....With a Brazilian Twist........2003-11-04

This is a wonderful CD. Many of the songs have a smooth jazz feel to them, however other songs, such as my favorite on the album, "Indian Pepper ("Pimenta Malagueta") remind you of the funk era from the late 70's - early 80's. Another good album to check out by Azymuth is "Telecommunication".

Cascades is a great CD!! Rapid Transit on the other hand..........2002-11-23

I've been looking for this album since I was in college back in the early 90's. I was thrilled when I found out Fantasy Records re-released it along with another obscure Azymuth album. I love the first 7 tracks which represents the Cascades CD, especially "Indian Pepper" and "Cascades of the Seven Waterfalls". I found it to be one of their best recordings. Rapid Transit though is not one of their better efforts. I wasn't too impressed with many of the tracks. I found it very abstract, like a painting. Maybe it will grow on me. Overall, get the CD for the first 7 tracks. You wont be disappointed!!

Average customer rating:

hip-hops New Wave
Thank You USA.
A dim sum of breakbeat cultural fusion

Rapid Transit
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Chocolate Industries
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000055ZQU
Release Date: 2000-11-28

Tracks:

7th Message - Prefuse-73
Juggle Tings Proper (Microchip, Madness & Hi Tech War Mix By El-P) - Roots Manuva
Tried By 12 F/des - East Flatbush Project
Non Existant (Gescom Mix) - Push-Button Objects
Whispers Special (Y2K Mix) - Sluta Leta
Metro Dade - Ko-Wreck Technique
Livin Life - Prefuse-73
Do Tell - Communication Project
Tried By 12 (Funkstorung Mix) - East Flatbush Project
Behavior (Prefuse-73 Mix) - Ko-Wreck Technique
Tooth Picks And Horses - Push-Button Objects
Mind, Body & Soul - Rec Center
Platanos - Guineo
Aerogram - Funkstorung
Slate - While

Album Details

Electronic: 12 tracks from Prefuse 73, Roots Manuva, East Flatbush Project, Push Button Objects, Sluta Leta, Ko-Wreck Technique, etc.

Customer Reviews:

hip-hops New Wave.......2001-10-02

Experimentalism abounds on this delicious number from Chocolate Industries. Push-Button Objects, East Flatbush Project, and Roots Manuva are just a few of the treats you may have heard of before, but it's numbers like Ko-wreck Technique's "metro dade" and Sluta Leta's "whispers special" that make this comp truely stand out from the rest of the crowd. The most original hip-hop/trip-hop/electronic mix I've heard in a while. Fans of Big Dadda/Ninja Tune, Battle Axe, Stud!o K7, will not be disapointed.

Thank You USA........2001-03-02

If your into N.O.W and B.O.C and all that then buy this.I found out about Chocolate Industries through Warp Records and have made a few purchases since.This is a top album.If your like me and you spend large sums of cash on music then this is a good purchase to fill some gaps in your C.D collection.ENJOY!

A dim sum of breakbeat cultural fusion.......2001-02-02

It's funny how the winding road of indie/non-commercial music takes you down so many paths, and every fan finds themselves going off on a different limb, taking chances, learning about new music, etc.

I found out about Chocolate Industries (the Miami based label whose showcase this is) via a Schematic records compilation. I found out about Schematic somehow since I was a fan of their album on Astralwerks, Soul Oddity (who are now called Phonecia).

Chocolate Industries seems to have had a similar evolutionary process, picking up bits of influences from varied ends of the musical spectrum, and fine tuning their own quirks as individual artists, then finally tying them together with a unified vision and a ton of amazing breakbeats.

Push Button Objects is definitely the big name on the album (and also the man behind the label). The artist most directly related to Hip Hop on the album but is not afraid to span the musical globe and include While whose freeform jazzscapes help the mind wander, or Sluta Leta's mix of kitsch and head nodding.

An unbelievable re-introduction to the U.S. electronica / IDM / breakbeat culture scene. This album is NOT an import, just an indie release from Chocolate Industries. And it's great to see these artists using their own music experience instead of creating an offshoot of a UK sound we've already heard to death.

Tracks:

Make Mine Guarana
Afternoon
Missing Doto
Somewhere In Brazil
I'm Just Looking Around
Montreux
Gate Of Time

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