shinjuku ZULU

shinjuku ZULU

Track Listings

1. Shinjuku Zulu

2. That Groove

3. Segue

4. Brando

5. Yedayed

6. Sweetness Likes The Reverb

7. Dervish

8. Cyclamen

9. Unlullaby

10. Velocity

11. Funkriot

12. Cyclone

13. A Clubber's Life

14. Behemoth

15. All The Bright Tribes

Editorial Reviews
CAMEO Magazine
'Hypnotic' and 'uplifting' are certainly two words that would describe the vibe one gets from this recording.

Product Description
Electronica, ranging from uptempo dance tracks through downtempo chill-out songs. See the following equation: Moby + (Africa x 21st cent.) + (Fatboy Slim) = shinjuku zulu Most tracks have a vocal element, whether it's with lyrics or with tribal or ethnic chants.

shinjuku ZULU

Tracks:

Losing My Mind Like
A.E.M.
Almighty Beat
Allelujah
Mrs. Tom
Box the Gnat
Feel It
Operafrica
E-yeah!
Happiness Like Motion
Sayasaya
Shopping
Bedouin Engine
Adieu, Shinjuku Zulu

Album Description

Electronica with dance, dub, tribal, choral, breakbeat, chain-gang, folk and square dance elements.

Customer Reviews:

Get A Passport Between Songs.......2005-08-31

This CD takes you on a trip--emotionally and sonically. It starts of with a dance track but is followed by a percussive tribal chant song; a track or two later it slows down for "Yedayed" a mysterious but uplifting downtempo number, and "Mrs. Major Tom", a heartbreaking ballad for the character from David Bowie's "Ground Control" song. Later it gets a little avant-garde with a club cut composed completely from the human voice and chants... you'll need a passport for this CD. (This artist also has a double CD out as K.I.A. called "Sonorous Susurrus" --which I heard about from another review, and got on iTunes-- which is a double CD, one disc all uptempo, the other all downtempo. He also makes similar music under the name Shinjuku Zulu.)

Hello, Adieu!.......2004-12-20

This second release by K.I.A. (the first was under the nom-de-tune Shinjuku Zulu) continues the fusion of pop, electronic and world musics to brilliant effect. It ranges from the bluestronica of "Almighty Beat" (heard on MTV's "Making the Band) to the beautiful and sad ballad "Mrs.Tom"--which continues the story of David Bowie's Major Tom character from "Space Oddity" and "Ashes to Ashes"--to "Box the Gnat" which combines minimal electronic beats with handclaps and backwards banjos... if you want to spend an hour-plus transported to other worlds, get this CD. (And also check out K.I.A.'s third release, "Sonorous Susurrus")

Average customer rating:

Thievery Corporation or Buddha Bar lovers...
Thievery Corporation or Buddha Bar lovers...
Eclectronica!
Pack your undies, you're going on a trip!
shinjukuZULU=TribalTranceDanceO-Matic

shinjuku ZULU
Shinjuku Zulu
Manufacturer: Neuphoria
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00004Z4K0
Release Date: 2000-09-11

Tracks:

Shinjuku Zulu
That Groove
Segue
Brando
Yedayed
Sweetness Likes The Reverb
Dervish
Cyclamen
Unlullaby
Velocity
Funkriot
Cyclone
A Clubber's Life
Behemoth
All The Bright Tribes

Album Description

Electronica, ranging from uptempo dance tracks through downtempo chill-out songs. See the following equation: Moby + (Africa x 21st cent.) + (Fatboy Slim) = shinjuku zulu Most tracks have a vocal element, whether it's with lyrics or with tribal or ethnic chants.

Customer Reviews:

Thievery Corporation or Buddha Bar lovers..........2005-08-31

If you like Thievery Corporation, or the style of music found on the Buddha Bar CDs, check out Shinjuku Zulu. On his two releases ("Shinjuku Zulu" and "Vicarious Chimera") he mixes uptempo and downtempo tracks with multiple vocalists (from rap to pop to blues to reggae) and multiple styles, from aboriginal chants over dance beats to Air-like instrumentation with haunting vocals. On his latest CD "Vicarious Chimera", a notable track is "Shanghai Masai", which is like M.I.A. meeting Missy Elliot, and "Scarborough Fair (A True Dub of Mine)", which is a trippy, dubbed-out take on the traditional song made famous by Simon & Garfunkel. Notable from his first release, "Shinjuku Zulu" is "That Groove", a great dance pop track, and "Sweetness Likes the Reverb" which could be described as acapellatronica, or vocal dub, and pre-dates Bjorks "Medulla". Shinjuku Zulu also records under the name K.I.A.; notable tracks from those releases are "Mrs. Major Tom", a ballad from "Adieu Shinjuku Zulu", and "Music Is My DNA", a cut which incorporates Latin vibes, Eastern-bloc folk vocals, disco and reggae. (You can hear/get all these tracks on iTunes).

Thievery Corporation or Buddha Bar lovers..........2005-08-31

Eclectronica!.......2004-12-20

Imagine Buddha Bar meets Moby meets Kylie Minogue... This CD is comprised of downtempo dub and uptempo dance tracks with pop, African, and middle eastern vocal influences. "That Groove", a dance song similar to the "Professional Widow" remix, is the most commercial track on the CD. "Sweetness Likes the Reverb" is a hauntingly beautiful acapella dub track, reminiscent in feel to "Song of the Siren" by the Cocteau Twins. "Segue" moves from breakbeat to house, with a soaring African chorus, and "Cyclmen" and "Dervish" have middle-eastern chants... smart, accessible music for the 22 century...

Pack your undies, you're going on a trip!.......2000-11-03

Heard this CD cranked up in a buddie's ride and just ordered five discs. Listened to all the tracks and felt like I thumbed my way through Kuala Lumpur, hung out in the back of a sweaty ancient mosque, then danced my a$$ off in a dank Toronto underground club. Can't really explain the trip. Just know that I want to go back. Been informed that those in the know call this act "The Ku Lu Crew". If their tunes like "Brando" or "Dervish" don't get your heart pumpin', call the ambulance. You flat-lined. PS: I feel like a star struck girl sending a love letter to David Cassidy.

shinjukuZULU=TribalTranceDanceO-Matic.......2000-10-31

A friend lent me this CD with a smile on his face. I think he knew I was going to like it... Alot!

At its best, fine art is supposed to enrich our lives and inspire emotion. shinjukuZULU accomplishes this with distinctive and stylish elegance. Each track inspires and I find myself listening over and over. I could tell you about the harmonious vocals, catchy riffs and intense drums but it just doesn't convey the subtlety found in this crafted work. Borrow it, Beg it, or Buy it. You'll just have to hear it, so that you can feel it.

Various Chimeras
Average customer rating:

Better than Gnarls, Gorillaz, Madonna, M.I.A. Because...

Various Chimeras
Shinjuku Zulu
Manufacturer: Neuphoria Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000FQW05M
Release Date: 2006-06-06

Tracks:

Tombouctou, Adieu! (ragtime electronica)
Shanghai Masai feat. MC Shankhini (hip hop dance)
Dirty Liar feat. MC GENERAL & Shawn Skeir (hip hop electronic)
Make Me Shake (Gimme Some Crush Crush) feat. Larissa Gomes & Shankhini (grime pop)
Chimera Hey Ya! feat. Shawn Skeir (dance electronica)
Da Riddim Griffin feat. Caryn Green, Shankhini (dance electronic)
Be My Woman, Be My Man feat. Shawn Skeir (dance)
Slow Is the New Fast feat. Shankhini, Sydney White (hip hop jazz)
My Man, Amen feat. Sydney White (downtempo)
Rainbowbeau feat. Larissa Gomes (ambient pop)
Scarborough Fair (a True Dub of Mine) feat. Giancarlo (ambient)
Massive Ballerina (Pirouettes for Millennia) feat. Miz Mac (rock electronica)
We Do Supersonic feat. Prince I (dance electronica)
Tuktuyuktuk tu Timbuktu feat. Giancarlo (world ambient)
Coal Coal Black feat. Shankhini (downtempo electronica)
One Come We feat. Prince I (chillout ambient)
The Way You Move Your Beauty feat. Larissa Gomes (dance electronica)
Slow Is the New Faster (K.I.A. remix) (dance electronica)
Hi, Shanghai... (ragtime electronica)

Product Description

Shinjuku Zulu "Various Chimeras" = (Gorillaz + Gnarls Barkley) x (Massive Attack x M.I.A.) ÷ (Air + Thievery Corporation + Buddha Bar) x (St. Germain x Verve Remixed x Zero 7) + (Moby + Morcheeba x Groove Armada). 19 songs, 12 vocalists; uptempo/dance and downempo/chillout pop electronica over 80 minutes.

Customer Reviews:

Better than Gnarls, Gorillaz, Madonna, M.I.A. Because..........2006-07-01

Bought the CD (from Amazon, but it's on iTunes) upon reading great reviews (in Toronto Star, Cokemachineglow, etc.) Well worth it. The music on Various Chimeras by Shinjuku Zulu is best described as cross-genre pop electronic. It has dance and chillout songs and a host of vocalists--rappers and singers and reggae chanters and choirs and so on. It also fuses eras--there's a ragtime thing goin' on, some 1920s and '30s blues and soul, current grime, old school breaks and rap and hip hop references, some punk funk and electro, all mixed in with next millenium electronic production. There's a lot of depth to this CD, with beautiful lyrics, like: "Intimately, under a digital moon / Fractal flowers, in full bloom / Sway back and forth as one / Endlessly dreaming of the analog sun" (Massive Ballerina)and witty: "Lil' Kim is the new Maid Marian, Rastafarian the new Librarian" (Slow is the New Fast)...which you might not pick up on the first few listens. In fact, that is the album's strength--it has a few very fun and instantly lovable tracks (see Da Riddim Griffin with its electro-cabaret-cheerleader vibe, and the raggatronic We Do Supersonic) but it's the more melancholic songs that will keep you listening for months... Coal Coal Black is haunting; My Man Amen is heartbreaking; Scarborough Fair (A True Dub of Mine) is hallucinogenic, simultaneously heavy and heavenly. And each time you hear the cd you'll hear more details, like the handclaps and banjos on Dirty Liar, the work-song beat created by dj scratches on My Man Amen, the multiple references over songs to Timbuktu, etc. (A good reason to by hardcopy, for the included lyric sheet.) Best album of the last few years. Better than Gnarls Barkley, Gorrilaz, M.I.A., Imogen Heap, Zero 7, Air, Thievery Corporation and Madonna... because it combines aspects of all of them on one disc.

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