Ambiente Basso E Batteria [Import]

Ambiente Basso E Batteria [Import]

Track Listings

1. Luminescenze

2. Di Malta (Searching)

3. X-Tatic Dawn (Straight Beat Rmx)

4. Middle Of Nowhere

5. Side Effect

6. Time (The Bassociation Mix(

7. Way To Love

8. Essenziale

9. On Line

10. So Deep (A Deeper Mix2)

11. Partenza (Ver 2.5)

Tracks:

4
Cornish Acid
Peek 824545201
Fingerbib
Corn Mouth
To Cure A Weakling Child
Goon Gumpos
Yellow Cal X
Girl/Boy Song
Log N Rock Witch
Milkman
Inkey $
Girl/Boy (18 Pound Snore Rush Mix)
Beetles
Girl/Boy (Redruth Mix)

Amazon.com essential recording

If techno ever does become the sound of young America, don't expect Richard James to be its poster boy, deserving though he may be. A native of Cornwall, England, James is obsessed with the mechanics of music making: As a kid, he took apart and reassembled the living room piano. Under the names Aphex Twin, Polygon Window, AFX, and other aliases too numerous to mention, he showed that he could make entire tracks with the sounds produced by tapping on a Coke can. Like the indie rockers of yore, he revels in his marginality because of the creative freedom it gives him. His full-length U.S. debut, Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994), includes some of the most serene sounds this side of the Orb, but his favorite hobby is the not-at-all-blissful pastime of driving a Daimler Ferret Mark 3 tank through his parents' backyard.

None of his recordings have captured the competing impulses to lull you to sleep and blast out your eardrums as well as Richard D. James, his third and best album. As the title indicates, James has turned inward for inspiration, painting aural pictures of real and imagined scenes from his west country childhood. "Goongumpas" is a fanciful, playful tune that wouldn't sound out of place on the soundtrack to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. As his adventures with the family upright indicate, James was a bit of a devil even as a child. "Beetles" is the sound of a boy frying bugs on the sidewalk with a magnifying glass, and "To Cure a Weakling Child" shows flashes of the sort of sadism found only on preschool playgrounds. If you still doubt that young Richard developed early on, the romantic Nino Rota-style strings on "Girl/Boy Song" are just made for passionate seductions, and the tune appears in three mixes, each one hot and hornier than the one before.

The raucous undercurrents of even his calmest tunes and the sources of many of his most common sounds are what link James to the rock tradition. With Richard D. James, the artist solidifies his position as an electronic music mastermind who has earned a spot beside such well-respected innovators--whether or not he's destined for stardom. --Jim Derogatis

Customer Reviews:

Not perfect, just almost perfect.......2007-06-07

Besides the award for one of the worst covers ever, Richard D. James Album is actually really good. Granted, I failed to see what's so ______ good about it, but I still think it's essential. It shows that electronic music actually takes talent to create.

THe music? Like I say, samples always HELP, but they sure don't always means it's bad or good. Fortunatly, I had no trouble picking up the music. It's got good atmosphere, especially on songs like Beetles and Milkman. I still haven't figured out how they relate to himself and his life. That's the main theme, hence the title. The songs are a hit or miss basically, you will either like them or you won't THe beats aren't regular beats (like Fatboy Slim

It's really really cool, but it's still not exactly the best album ever. I like You've Come A Long Way, Baby, a lot better, but this is great electronic music. _____ electronic music haters. It's a great (very great) genre. It's not poppy either. It's the opposite. So don't expect any ____________ songs like We LIke To Party.

9.0/10

insane .......2006-11-05

This guy is insane and awsome. The music is polished, yet insane. Crazy insane!

symphonic noise.......2006-10-02

I first discovered this cd while working in a music store. This cd is not for the weak hearted. One major thing I noticed in titles such as the Boy/Girl song is that he never uses the same loop twice. The background will stay steady but everything around it will move all over the place, like putting bethoven in a cement mixer. I don't want to scare you away from this album because it is a definate worth while buy but to truely do this cd justice you need to strap on a good set of headphones and hang on for a glorius ride.

Great Album.......2006-07-10

Between this one and drukqs, this is one of my favorite albums. I can say that I like every song on this CD. Especially the last half.

If your new to aphex twin, this is an excellent starter album.

And if your already a fan, I dont know why you haven't bought this yet

Well worth having if you like AFX.......2006-06-22

The other reviews say it all really - good, but not as esential as Selected Ambient Works (and not really in the same vein either). I just wanted to answer the reviewer's question about the gravestone: Richard D James's parents had a stillborn child some years before he was born, also called Richard, and the image is that of his brother's gravestone. (This also explains the significance of the middle 'D'.)

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Little Green Man
Sucked in.
Gotta B on druqks to undestsnde unnerstudit unistoou ......? Never mind
Wacky.
try it, start to finish....

Drukqs
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Release Date: 2001-10-23

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Often proclaimed as electronica's one true genius, Richard James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin, returns with a double CD that showcases his cleverness as well as his inevitable inscrutability. Still, amid macabre birthday songs, unsettling screams, and other bizarre touches, Drukqs offers the most technically accomplished and beautiful tracks of Aphex Twin's career. Every aspect of the Aphex brain is on display here, from stark pieces performed on sampled piano and zither to Squarepusher-styled drum & bass implosions, all informed by that peculiar Aphex treatment of bittersweet melody and unparalleled programming. For an artist once engrossed in homages to his dead twin brother and grotesque videos, Drukqs shows James getting by purely on music alone.

"Mt. Saint Michel Mix" starts as maddening drum & bass, but is soon transfixed by glowing tones, hand drums, and police sirens. "Vordhosbn" is all acid beats and mad synths matched with fart-bombs and haunted cries. "54 Cymru Beats" sounds more like the tweaked-out, goofball techno of Wagon Christ than Aphex, while "Taking Control" goes metaphysical with cerebral synth-drums and muddled vocals. If Drukqs is the result of medication James has been imbibing during his three-year hiatus, then this is indeed better living through chemistry. Regardless, his music is still as beautiful and frothy as ever. --Ken Micallef

Customer Reviews:

Little Green Man.......2007-06-29

A deeply tragic portrait of the British Isles 50 years after the light went out.

Draw the line.

Sucked in........2007-04-23

Avril 14th was the first song I heard off of this album. That was the reason I bought it. I had owned other Aphex Twin albums such as "Richard D. James Album" and the "Come To Daddy EP." But neither of those are as mysterious and beautiful as "Drukqs."

This album flows together very nicely if played continuously through. There are about ten electronica tracks, 10 piano pieces and a few scattered ambient tracks. Some of the trip-hop tracks really slap you in the face with how involved they are... But the piano pieces are truly beautiful.

Definitely my favorite Aphex Twin album.

Gotta B on druqks to undestsnde unnerstudit unistoou ......? Never mind.......2006-10-31

This Richard James album is another example of why I struggle to understand his intentions. Sometimes, he plays soft pleasant pieces (that no IDM fanatic needs), and then he goes off into some spastic brain hemorrhaging instrumention (which I actually find comforting). But, I guess he has to do this so that the album, as a whole, doesn't just sound like a whole lotta insane noise. Many of his more spastic drum and bass implosions (as it's been refered to) is some of his best work on this album. Richard James has come along way since I first heard of him with his "Selected Ambient Works" album that I bought many years ago. I was slow to accept and understand this album because there was nothing else like it at the time. I played it alot, got bored with it, and then just gave it away to a friend. Little did I know, that Aphex Twin was going to re-introduce himself to me in the near future.

A few years ago, I saw a movie called "Pi". It was a low budget black and white film based on the subject of intelligence and insanity, and the soundtrack that supported this film had a series of artists that I have never heard of before. Watching the film, I just loved all that strange electronic music playing in the background, so I knew I just had to find the CD soundtrack of the film "Pi".

On the soundtrack, I saw that Aphex Twin had a track on it. I don't remember this track in the film ("Bucephalus Bouncing Ball"), but I sure loved this bizarre electronic collage of dissonant noise. Plus, this CD soundtrack introduced me to alot of new artists, all making a new sound in electronic music that I have never heard before. This new music is called IDM, which means "intelligent dance music". But, I think it should be called ADM meaning "addictive music", because that's what this new music has become to me. I have a hard time listening to regular music anymore. This IDM is very motivational music to listen to. This music gives me all sorts of nervous energy which has turned me into a healthier, more physically toned, workaholic. When I'm in an IDM music euphoria, I can't sit still. After buying the soundtrack of "Pi", I ended up looking for more CD's with this new IDM sound.

This could easily be anyone's favorite CD from Aphex Twin. It doesn't really matter which Aphex Twin album you buy first (although, "Selected Ambient Works: Volume Two" would not be a good idea). But, you know, you can't just allow yourself to be satisfied with this one CD. However, if you don't have a lot of music like this, than it can seem to become too repetitious and become tiresome rather quickly if you just let yourself play this CD too much. Even I don't care to sit through the entire playback of just the one CD. But, I have determined that this music from Aphex Twin should be played within a mix of other Ambient Dub and other various glitch and IDM related electronica. To just play these 30 songs over and over, end to end, can get dull rather quickly. But if you listen to these songs mixed in and shuffling with about another hundred IDM instrumentals than you will truly appreciate Aphex Twin's participation in the overall bigger picture of today's electronic instrumentals.

I have these two Aphex Twin CD's shuffling amongst others in my 200 CD carrousel. These tracks by Aphex Twin are being mixed up with tracks by Autechre, Gescom, Phutureprimitive, Squarepusher, Pete Namlook, Biosphere, The Orb, The Higher Intelligence Agency, Sounds From the Ground, Electric Skychurch, Plaid, Boards of Canada, and various other similar artists of which Aphex Twin belongs with.

I also have these songs and other IDM and Ambient Dub tracks burned onto ATRAC CDR's that is made through the SonicStage program made available only by Sony. (Check out some of Sony's ATRAC CD players and find out why burning hours of your favorite tunes onto a single CDR is better than just loading an ipod with mp3s) Burning hard copies is definitely better than just floating your music in a temporary storage unit like an ipod. (You can make 32 hour CDR's, and as many as you want from all your CD's and mp3s. How many songs can your single ipod hold?)

Anyway, Kudos to you for discovering this Aphex Twin CD, but now, explore some of the other artists I've mentioned above. You will love this new world of sound that you've discovered. It is more vast than you could ever imagine.

Wacky........2006-09-04

If this is your first Aphex Twin/"IDM" purchase, this will be the weirdest thing you've ever heard in your whole life. It's probably not accessible to a lot of people. Actually, it's kind of annoying at first, but after a while it might grow on you.

try it, start to finish...........2006-07-21

i've read all the bashing reviews of this album, not up to par, a little shallow, etc... richard james has fooled the sheep. these disks have been designed to play together, try it, start to finish. i read this somewhere else online and was a little sceptical but a few minutes into the first track(s) was completly convinced. i ripped both disks onto the computer under two different formats and used two different media players timed to start at exactly the same time. a lot of work to enjoy an album but remember rdj is a computer geek and a jokester, probably gets off on the the bum reviews. enjoy!

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Mary Anne Hobbs Warrior Dubz
Various Artists
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Black - Andy Stott
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Album Description

The UK underground is on fire in 2006. It's undeniably a special, fertile time and BBC Radio 1 dee-jay Mary Anne Hobbs wanted to capture some of the unique energy of this generation on a single compilation. Warrior Dubz represents a collection of some of the pioneering underground artists she's been supporting on her show.

More than half of the tunes featured on Warrior Dubz were produced exclusively for the album. The others are the underground classics that helped define the 2006 scene. Hobbs is responsible for shaping the agenda of one of the most trend-setting and respected underground music shows on English radio. Regarding her influence on the music she champions, consider this: When BBC Radio1 announced a new "specialist" schedule, her show, formerly called Breezeblock, was rechristened simply Mary Anne Hobbs.

Tracks:

We Have Explosive - The Future Sound of London
Atom Bomb - Fluke
Loops Of Fury - The Chemical Brothers
Tin There - Underworld
The Third Sequence - Photek
Leave Home (Underworld Mix) - The Chemical Brothers
We Have Explosive (Herd Killing) - The Future Sound of London
Firestarter (Instrumental) - Prodigy
U Six - Fluke
Musique - Daft Punk
2097 - Source Direct
Titan - Photek
Petrol - Orbital
Afro Ride - Leftfield

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"You want bowel-churning mega-bass that shakes the room, demolishes the ceiling, and freaks out the cat?" ask the compilers of this grade-A U.K. techno disc. The curious should answer with an unequivocal, "Hell, yes." Sonic slabs from Orbital, the Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Prodigy, Leftfield and the Future Sound of London, among others, add up to a definitive appetizer tray of drum & bass flavors. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

Great game, even better soundtrack!.......2007-01-03

I will admit, after purchasing this game, I found myself sitting in front of my Playstation hearing 3,2,1, GO! and then placing the controller on the ground in front of me listening to the great music coming from my 13" TV. After a while, the game simply became a visual to a near perfect soundtrack. If you enjoy heart racing, adrenaline pumping electronica then this is the soundtrack for you. Highly recommended however Coffee + This Album may = excessive speed on the road. Buy at your own risk :)

Required listening for EDM fans.......2005-05-12

If you are into electronic dance music this CD not just a good album, but required listening. Actually it's great if you are just starting into the genre and want to hear the music that catapulted it. Based on a video game soundtrack Wipeout XL takes what the Playstation game (Wipeout 2) did with the music genre and moved it another level. The Wipeout 2 games was heralded as not only an excellent arcade racing game, but a game that had one of the coolest soundtracks ever. This is because the game designers decided to get a broad range of artists together on their game project. The result was a video game with a soundtrack that defined electronic music in the 90's.

What Wipeout XL did was take that style of music and put it on a CD so people can just pop it in and jam without having to either rip the tracks off the game or play the game cd on a stereo system. There are track differences between the two. For one the games staff writer, Cold Fusion, doesn't have any tracks on it so that takes out two songs. From there a couple other songs were replaced for whatever reasons (personally I think Future Sound of London's Herd Killing is just too dissonant for anything but a title scroll for the game). But don't fret, because what they replaced them with is definitely worth your while.

Some of the new tracks on this CD are exclusive to this CD only. That's right. Exclusive mixes. I don't mean crappy freak mixes that don't deserve proliferation I mean some killer mixes that you MUST have in your collection. Here's my opinion on some tracks:

ATOM BOMB and V-SIX by Fluke is not the regular version. It's one of those exclusive versions I was talking about. And this is the coolest mix of Atom Bomb I have ever heard (and I heard lots). Totally new beat and feel, but definitely the same song. V-Six is an exlusive song you won't find anywhere but here. Not even remixes. It's aggressive and driven like a lot of his dancier tracks. The CD is worth getting for these two tracks alone.

LOOPS OF FURY and LEAVE HOME (Underworld Mix) By Chemical Brothers, while not exclusive mixes, they are songs you won't find on any of their albums. They were released on singles only. Either way Loops of Fury to me is the ultimate big beat song. Powerful drums on top of a driving bassline with a mess of fun noises dancing around the groove. Leave Home is just powerful, but more minimalist. Still great on the dance floor. This CD is worth it for these two tracks alone (Did I just repeat myself? See where I'm getting at?).

2097 by Source Direct can only be found on the Wipeout CD's (game and XL CD). At least it's not on any of their albums. It's some crazy drum and bass that you might not be able to dance to, but it sure is interesting listening to what do they the instruments.

Other good tracks (not exclusive) are Orbital's P.E.T.R.O.L., Future Sound of London's WE HAVE EXPLOSIVE (very popular), and the lyricless FIRESTARTER by The Prodigy. TIN THERE and MUSIQUE are a little repetitive but manageable. Photek is very much like Source Direct, only not as interesting in their drum-&-bassiness.

If you are just getting into modern electronic music then this would be a perfect primer for you. If you have been into it for a while there are some tracks here worth getting that are either not that easy to find or you just won't find elsewhere. Either way this is an excellent CD that's worthy to be in your collection.

Not as good as the original.......2003-11-07

Basicaly the only decent stuff I see here are tracks 1,4,7 and 8. Seven is the coolest theme ever - the one from the WipeoutXL game intro video(the whole reason I got this CD) and the first track is also mixed in there somewhere. Number 4 is just a more or less decent techno track, while 8 is Prodigy's "Firestarter" without the vocals. Track 2 was a dissapointing dulled-down version of Fluke's "Atom Bomb"(I'd give the CD 4 stars if they just put the excellent original one). So there you have it, unless you desperatly want the WipeoutXL intro flick music which wasn't included on the game CD - don't bother. Better get the WipeoutXL game itself - it's out for PSX and PC and has the great game and music all in one(skip the first data track). You can also play the PSX version with an emulator and get the same resolution. But the PC version is the best.

State-of-the-art electronica.......2003-06-10

To call this a "techno" CD is misleading. Sure there's some of that, but this is really a genuine electronica CD with the likes of Photek, Source Direct, et al making an appearance with some, shall we say, unique tracks.

Electronica today (2003) isn't quite what it used to be back when it was new and clearly still experimental and at the top of its form. This 78:18 CD offers up some classic tracks that will last forever. I have a lot of CDs from various electronica artists that have songs on this compilation (Fluke, FSOL, Orbital, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy) and others that don't (namely Crystal Method) and they're all great but none quite capture the diverse essence of what electronica can encompass. This is that CD!

The version of Atom Bomb on here is a cleaned-up AND remixed version of the original on Fluke's own Risotto CD. None of the other reviews really pointed that out.

Ha ha ha ha... WIPEOUT!.......2002-07-25

When I bought this however many years ago, nobody bothered to point out to me that it was the soundtrack to a game. But perhaps that's the greatest compliment anybody could give it--that the music stands on its own without any hard-sell.

Maybe you bought 'Exit Planet Dust' but if you missed out on the Chemical Brothers' (in my opinion) best single "Loops of Fury", you could atone buy picking up this disc. The instrumental version of "Firestarter" is better than the original, and "PETROL" is not representative of the Orbital album ('In Sides') it comes from, but still kicks.

The whole 'Electronica' wave was over-done and rightfully put in its proper place on the musical scheme of things, but in retrospect, there were some singles you had to own, and this is a superb compilation of them.

Tracks:

Digeridoo
Flaphead
Phloam
Isopropanol
Polynomial-C
Tamphex (Hedphug Mix)
Phlange Phace
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Metapharstic
We Have Arrived (Aphex Twin QQT Mix)
We Have Arrived (Aphex Twin TTQ Mix)
Digeridoo (Live in Cornwall, 1990)

Album Description

Reissue on Play It Again Sam America.

Customer Reviews:

Didn't age well.......2007-03-24

It's ok and a must have if you're a aphex twin fan. It's interesting to hear some of the earlier aphex twin work, some of which I danced to at raves in the '90s. But unfortunately the songs don't hold up very well and are a extremely dated. Especially compared to his more recent work.

Most accessible aphex twin cd.......2005-05-07

I think, of all the aphex twin I've heard, this is the most accessible collection of songs. The songs are enjoyable, and as another reviewer noted, their stripped down simplicity gives them a lot of energy. I was expecting a more eclectic, difficult album, but I enjoyed it regardless. It was actually kind of a treat to hear such straightforward music under the Aphex Twin moniker.

A uncompromising collection of his earlier work............2004-10-20

For a artist, that can move from the relatively hushed brilliance of his critically acclaimed "Ambient" albums, through to the Skittering & Fractured Breakbeats of his "Richard D.James" album. Aphex Twin has never been a person that's been afraid to play with peoples expectations of his music.

Collected here, is a series of pre-fame Aphex Twin tracks (collated from various EP's and Singles), that although conceived, to give an overall perspective of his music (even though it is sold as a 'Collection' of sorts), but, more to provide a musical snapshot of where he originally started, as opposed to where he's currently ended up today. And because the majority of tracks here are complied from various EP's & Singles, buyers should be warned that there is a decidedly 'Disjointed' feel to the tracklisting, with no continuity to the sequencing of the tracks. Moving from somber and atmospheric Experimental Electronica one minute (The sublime "Digeridoo" is a great example of how truly creative his work can be), through to something a little more brooding and anxious ("Isopropanol" veers more towards Ambient Techno). Moving into the more accessible side of his music is "Polynomial-C" that feels more in line with the progressive techno/Industrial cross-over that he would later go on to perfect under the alias "Polygon Window", that's crunching and slightly abrasive, yet somehow mantains a rhythmic element, under the most strenuous of conditions.

So the question is, are these collection of tracks truly deserving to be included on this album?? Yes!!, of that there is no doubt, but if taken as a whole album, its something of a mess (although a fantastically created one). As tracks lurch wildly from restrained Electronica one minute, to (relatively) fierce and uncompromising Techno the next, and it's such a stylistic change in tempo, that the listener can't help but sit up and notice the rapid fluctuation in tempos. So...right about now, your probably asking yourself, "If he's criticising the tracklisting so heavily, why is he giving it 5 Stars???.....Simple, because these tracks were never designed to be pieced together from various sources and compiled to sit next to each other. So this was always going to be a fragmented listen, plus this isn't the place to start if your a first time listener to Aphex Twin, this is almost certainly aimed at those that have cut their teeth on his work previously, and are already familiar with what to expect (I.e. Anything). Taken as a coherent album...this fails, but as a relatively random collection of some of his more exceptional work, this'll take some beating.

great.......2004-05-09

Just great. I am a fan of his music for quite a while and all of his records are special in their own way. Tracks with a little twist only RDJ can add. Sometimes a bit sinister, but thats ok for me! Most of his tracks are sertainly refreshing and energy boosting. A philosopher teacher once said: "to enjoy and appreciate the quality of sertain aspects (of whatsoever) you have to have rotten spots besides it". In case of some of the tracks ("ventolin" (medicine for asthmatic patiens) for example in which you hear a sample of a person hyperventilating), annoying bleeps, cracks and sounds are added in such way that when they fade away in a track you almost feel a releef....a contrast between serenety and rotten (no offence)

Wonderful album for the RDJ fan, but not his best.......2004-04-10

I Didn't need to listen to this album more than once to know that it was going to be another incredible Aphex Twin listening experience. This is an interesting compilation, because it mixes many excellent tracks from the most repetitive facet of his hardcore style with some of the the most beautiful and catchy selections from his softer side (Polynomial-c, Analogue Bubblebath 1), resulting in a listening experience that sucks you in with the promise of beauty, and takes you on a hardcore Aphex Twin...head... trip.

Nonetheless, this is Aphex Twin we're talking about, and "Classics" is not his best album. On the softer side of Aphex soundscapes, I recommend "Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92", in the middle, "Come to Daddy EP", and on the hardcore side, "Caustic Window: Compilation". "Classics" is good... darn good. But those three are even better - Unless, you're looking for specifically what this album is - a flowing collection of good, repetitive, hardcore, classic Richard D. James tracks.

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A true masterpiece, and anything but boring...

A solid effort

BOOOOOOOOOORING

The more Cerebal side of Bukems Productions

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Amazon.com

Though he was once on top of the drum & bass heap, in recent years LTJ Bukem, king of ambient drum & bass, has been pushed aside in favor of hard and dark tech-step. Fame came easily to Bukem, who with his labels Looking Good and Good Looking spearheaded the movement of intelligent drum & bass with the release of the Logical Progression series, quickly cementing his place in the short history of urban breakbeat. Journey Inwards marks his long-awaited return and attempt to reclaim his throne in the fickle drum & bass community. True to form, Bukem turns in a two-disc set of songs heavy on the reverb, caressed by light lyrics and sweet singing throughout. Horns and synths are as integral--if not more important than--bass lines, and often the bass takes a backseat to the music's melodic enterprises. Jazz peeks its head in a few places, particularly when Bukem slows the tempo, as in "Sunrain," cuing up the old suspicions that Bukem creates adult contemporary jungle. Not concerned with rocking the joint, Bukem instead lulls slowly to sleep or seduces his admirers. Whether he's playing with scattershot drums or mellow-yellow downtempo, Bukem manipulates the mood as deftly as he chops a beat. --Tricia Romano

Customer Reviews:

A true masterpiece, and anything but boring... .......2006-07-03

...unless you are a hard-core dnb head, and have not matured at least a little.

This is desert island/living/bedroom bliss.

Disc 1 is worth the total price alone, and Disc 2 is almost.

This is not "Drum and Bass" or "Jungle" per se. It is, as the title so clearly states, a 'journey inwards' by one of the founding fathers of the aforementioned genre/s.

A solid effort.......2006-06-29

LTJ Bukem moves away a bit from pure drum and bass but presents a well composed album. While disk #2 had me feeling a bit empty, disk #1 is true electronic combined with elemental jazz, upbeat bass as well as downtempo lounge.
I hesitated giving this album 5 stars dues to the lackluster of disk 2, but disk 1 on its own is quite the listening experinece.(4.5 stars)

BOOOOOOOOOORING.......2006-04-07

LTJ Bukem is certainly one of the most important DnB-DJ's. He opened the genre to ambient, Funk, Jazz etc and there are few DJ's which have influenced DnB more than him. Without Bukem, and without Good Looking Records, DnB would not be what it is today.

Let me remind you, this is the man who created Logical Progression (certainly one of the most influential DnB albums), Progression Sessions with the wonderful MC Conrad, and Earth (which anyone in electronical music knows and loves).

Unfortunetaly, I must say that Journey Inwards just shows what I was afraid of: with the beginning of the new century, the time of the LTJ is over.

Some claim "Journey Inwards" is a logical continuation of 70's Funk, Jazz and Fusion, and that it really is "intelligent". My opinion is that it is neither funky nor jazzy nor is it DnB. Do you know these Yoga or meditation CD's you sometimes here when you are shopping? That's how this album sounds. It is totally uninspired, it is really really boring, and it never comes to a point. Its just like this man is out of ideas.

Most songs are over 7 minutes long, and you only hear some mystical sounds (again - meditation) for 2 or 3 minutes. Nothing else, no drums, no bass. And almost every song starts like that. So close your eyes, and imagine you are a tree...

I would say, Bukem has made his contributions, but his style is exhausted - there is nowhere to go with it anymore. What can you do as a music fan? Here are some tips:

Either buy all the old stuff by Bukem, or go back to 60's and 70's real Jazz, Funk or Fusion. And if you want to listen to some new very good (say 2003 and later) - and indeed quite intelligent DnB-albums, which are more "up-to-date" - then go to DJ Marky, Zinc, London Electricity or High Contrast. Thats the "intelligent" DnB of the new century.

The more Cerebal side of Bukems Productions.......2005-06-24

Few could argue, that there aren't many people, that have done more than LTJ Bukem, to push the genre of Drum 'n' Bass, into a more widely accepted audience. An active pivotal figure from the scene's early days, he has been on a increasingly successful quest to push traditional atmospheric drum'n'bass tracks, with a strong undercurrent of 70's Rhodes Jazz-funk fusion, into the concessions of the general public for a while now. Although actively disliking the term 'Intelligent Drum N Bass', (which is odd....seeing as 'Intelligent Drum N Bass', largely sidesteps, tough hardhitting bass & Hyper-speed beats, for a more melodic & rhythmically midtempo fusion of stylish, smooth & sublimely textured breakbeats. Which is largely what Bukem's music is favourably likened to???).

His influences musically, have always been referenced in his music, so the elegant ambience of 70's Jazz-fusion, were detectable in early hits such as "Horizons". And although his "Logical Progression" & "Progression Sessions" albums, veer more towards hypnotic Jungle/Breakbeat. This particular album largely forgoes club-friendly breaks, in favour of a Jazz inflicted sound, that is in partial reference to heroes & Jazz pioneers, 'Roy Ayers' to 'Pharoah Sanders'. Those looking for anything along the lines of the phenomenal "Logical Progression" series, would be we advised to take note of the fact that, this is cerebral, organic 'mood' music, that is resolutely of a strictly downtempo nature, and the intimate mood for vast majority of the music here, would struggle to find a place inside a traditional Drum N Bass club, as there are no Vocal/MC gymnastics to latch onto, with all tracks being instrumental (apart from 1 vocal track, and a couple of snippets of dialogue, on 1-2 other tracks), here the focus is pushed squarely towards the sort of music that Bukem most likely listens to, outside his profession...tracks that in some way or form are retrospective collections of natural ambience, similarly inclined towards melodicism or epic expanses of sound.

So what can you expect from this 2-Disk CD??

The music created over the 2-Cd's is one that'll disappoint those looking for an album of traditional Drum N Bass material, instead, Bukem has created an exceptionally crafted collection of tracks that incorporate: Jazz-Fusion, 70's Funk, Intelligent Breakbeat, organic breaks, Soul-Jazz, Ambient atmospheres, Mellow, Jungle, Jazz-Funk, Downtempo, funky jazz.....in fact anything of a decidedly midtempo, cerebral nature has been included here. The tracks themselves are stunning in their composition, all moody soundtracks (which is an idea that features prominently throughout the album), soothing melodies, Elegant bass sounds, Cerebral arrangements, beautiful Fender Rhodes playing, sensual tones, and an ambitious approach to song creation that continues to explore the possibilities of integrating jazz improvisation with drum'n'bass production. More impressively, it manages to meld structural elements more in common with downtempo R&B, with an ideas that are quite indebted to the organic jazz sounds that Bukem is so clearly in love with. It's an astonishing varied bunch of tracks, not so far as there is massive diversions in tempo and genre.....more to do with the fact that it takes manages to move confidently from smooth Jazz-Funk ("Journey Inwards"), through to the shimmeringly atmospheric sounds and waves of Rhodes keyboards ("Rhodes to Freedom"), to tracks that are more in tone with the proficiently superb liquid ambience, of the sort of Nocturnal intelligent Drum N Bass that, Bukem made his name by ("Watercolours"), or having the sole vocal track on the 2 disks, that manages to reference that sort of elaborate and dramatic 70's spy thriller sound, that marked out the tremendous instrumental side of somebody like 'Curtis Mayfields' work ("Sunrain"), or indeed exhibiting the frequent synthesized bass and pulsating hi-hat flourishes of smoky jazz-noir, that are sleek and expansive in their arrangement ("Deserted Vaults). So although everything here isn't of a high BPM, Bukem is skillfully able to take relatively simple ideas, and make highly polished instrumental tracks that with the use of restrained beats and an orchestral tug, are arguably some of the most organically refined work he's done.

Those that like the sound of this album and are considering making the purchase, of what I consider to be up there with his seminal "Logical Progression" & "Progression Sessions" series, must be warned that, there really is very little in the way of the sort of Drum N Bass, that features on those albums, and instead is preoccupied with smooth grooves, Jazzy arrangements and complex mannered, intricate drum programming that features on the majority of Bukem's more relaxed productions. The mood here is very laid-back and unrushed, and if your waiting for some energetic, quick-tempo dancefloor rhythms in the realm of breakbeat headspace, and driving bass and deft pacing, then I'm afraid that it never truly arrives. As there is far too much considered and sophisticated grooves here, that work far better as late night Chill-out music, or reflective mood music (this works especially well, on late night car drives), then they do as dance-orientated music. Anyone familiar with Bukems "Earth" series. (A compilation of tracks from Various artists that cover everything from: Soul-Jazz, Jazz-fusion, ambient breakbeat, funk-fusion, Latin soul-jazz, instrumental Hip-Hop), will absolutely adore this, is it's very much in the same vein. Anyone just looking for some exceptionally produced, impressively eloquent music, will find this could well rank as some of Bukem's finest work.....Exceptional!!!

Road Music.......2005-03-17

Belt yourself in...turn the key....head out on the highway...Pop this in and tune to "Undress Your Mind" or "Feel What You Feel"...and you'll find the fit is downright...perfect. This is about motion and it moves at a rate of rightgeous....Buy it and listen...and you will move.

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Eh, it was alright....
Remixes worth getting
ritm puts on the show!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rabbit is the best thing going
R.I.T.M. is MUCH better than this

Rabbit in the Moon Remixes, Vol. 1
Rabbit in the Moon
Manufacturer: Hallucination
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ASIN: B000007SGE
Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

Fear - Sarah McLachlan
East - Humate & rabbit In The Moon
Queer - Garbage
Ripstop - TDF
Inner City Life - Goldie
Are We Here - Orbital
Electro Acupuncture - Astral Pilot
Blood, Milk & Sky - White Zombie
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Eh, it was alright...........2002-01-15

Okay the first time I heard RITM I was at this party in Dallas. I had never heard their stuff before and someone sticks this CD into the player. I was like Who is this?? I asked and was told who it was.
I didn't really care for this CD once I learned it was their remixes Vol 1. I feel that artist should do their own stuff instead of specializing in other's styles and work. At least do their own work first off, then do remixes after they've been out a while. Maybe the person at this party shouldn't have played a remix album by RITM and instead brought an album done by RITM. I've only heard a couple of songs that RITM has done on their own. They've become famous doing remixes, and that's all I hear about them now. "It's a RITM remix of BT's song or Oakenfold's song!" Blah blah.
I don't have a problem with remixes. Oakenfold, BT, Tiesto, Special DJ K, PVD, etc all of them had done their share of those. BUT these artists ACTUALLY HAVE THEIR OWN DANG ALBUMS TOO! They do their own work and try not to make money off other artist's work and style by mixing it up.
After this RITM CD was over with, I placed my C.M. "Vegas" cd into the player.
I just feel they should be doing their own stuff more often than not.

Remixes worth getting.......2001-10-14

Though it's not an album this is nonetheless a much welcomed release from these highly rated electronic producers. A collection of remixes done by the Florida based electronic dance act Rabbit in the Moon of various artists work.

A good collection with highlights including the brilliant collaboration with Humate on 'East' and their stunning remix of Orbital's 'Are We Here?'.

Any fan of Rabbit in the Moon should have this along with dance music fans who want something a bit different.

ritm puts on the show!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......1999-08-05

holy shit i saw ritm at its like that with run dmc and ak 1200 that was the dopest rave ive ever been to ritm put on the show no dout keep it real hope ya come back to seattle soon not the greatest album though oh yea donald glaude put the sound in puget sound

rabbit is the best thing going.......1999-07-09

what else do you need besides r.i.m.'s best works remixed

R.I.T.M. is MUCH better than this.......1999-06-19

Im a raver from the Miami area and a big-time R.I.T.M. fan.I have been in raves like the ULTRA beach fest and seen Rabbit in the Moon completly take the crowd to a level of energy which would blow your mind.Dont take this as representation of them.(try Out of Body Experience,or in that case any of Rabbits previous releases) RABBIT IN THE MOOOOOOON,WE LOVE YOOOOOOOO!

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Good buy!
Brilliant.
Thank you, may I have another?
26 Mixes For Cash
Bleeps. Bloops. Kinda blah.

26 Mixes for Cash
Aphex Twin
Manufacturer: Warp Records
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ASIN: B000088EGP
Release Date: 2003-03-25

Tracks:

Time To Find Me, AFX Fast Mix - Seefeel
Raising The Titanic, Big Drum Mix - Gavin Bryars
Journey, Aphex Twin Care Mix - Gentle People
Triachus, Mix By Aphex Twin - Kinesthesia
Heroes, Aphex Twin Remix - Philip Glass
In The Glitter Part II, Aphex Twin Mix - Buck Tick
Zeroes And Ones, Aphex Twin Reconstruction #2 - Jesus Jones
Ziggy, Aphex Twin Mix #1 - Nav Katze
Your Head My Voice, Voix Revirement - Saint Etienne
Change, Aphex Twin Mix #2 - Nav Katze
Une Femme N'est Pas Un Homme, Aphex Twin Mix - The Beatniks
The Beauty Of Being Numb Section B, Created By Aphex Twin - Nince Inch Nails
Let My Fish Loose, Aphex Twin Remix - Nobukazu Takemura

Tracks:

Krieger, Aphex Twin Baldhu Mix - Die Fantastischen Vier
Deep In Velvet, Aphex Twin Turnips Mix - Phillip Boa & The Voodoo Club
Falling Free, Aphex Twin Remix - Curve
We Have Arrived, Aphex Twin QQT Mix - Mescalinum United
At The Heart Of It All, Created By Aphex Twin - Nine Inch Nails
Remix - AFX
Windowlicker, Acid Edit - Aphex Twin
Normal, Helston Flora Remix By AFX - Baby Ford
SAW2 CD1 TRK2, Original Mix - Aphex Twin
Mindstream, The Aphex Twin Remix - Meat Beat Manifesto
You Can't Hide Your Love, Hidden Love Mix - DMX Krew
Spotlight, Aphex Twin Mix - Wagon Christ
Debase, Soft Palate - Mike Flowers Pop

Amazon.com

It's hard to imagine Aphex Twin having a more appropriately named label (Warp); fitting also that 26 Mixes for Cash should have such an honest title. Having passed off a random gabba track as a Lemonheads remix and not bothering to hear the Nine Inch Nails originals before handing over his mixes, Aphex Twin has historically proved a little wayward in his methods. Not so much remixing as recycling, Richard D James's method is not unlike flinging tracks into a garbage crusher just long enough so only the bare bones of melody and structure survive. Covering a decade's work, this stunning eclectic mix effortlessly flicks from cinematic ambience (Nine Inch Nails--"At the Heart of It All") and industrial pandemonium (Mescalinum United's "We Have Arrived") to squelching acid trance (his own previously unreleased acid edit of "Windowlicker"). The disparate range of artists remixed is as remarkable as the music, with Mike Flowers Pops and Wagon Christ making unlikely bedfellows. Improbable yet inspired highlights come in the form of his haunting interpretation of David Bowie's "Heroes" symphony conducted by Philip Glass and the breathtakingly ethereal transformation of Curve's "Falling Free." --Christopher Barrett

Album Description

A 26 track compilation on 2 CDs of Aphex Twin's blinding remixes (plus two previously unreleased Aphex tunes). Encompassing 10 years of always evolving, unpredictable Aphex Twin sounds, from acid trax and raved-up bangers to strangely commercial pop and his inimitably delicate, ambient empathies. Gatefold digipak. Warp. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Good buy!.......2007-02-19

I bought this cd for my guy and he loved it. He doesnt listen to it enough in my opinion though. :/

Brilliant........2006-12-15

A completely worthwhile album; wide variety of stellar remixes. I really, really love this album, despite a couple of really bizarre and unlistenable tracks. And even the unlistenable tracks are really fascinating. RDJ is laughing himself silly right now, if he reads this, because he often pooh-poohs his own genius. He probably helped compose The Beauty of Being Numb Section B in 5 minutes on the crapper, and here I am calling it brilliant. He probably worked really hard on that mix and composed Time to Find Me with the whole crapper/5 minutes thing. Or not.

Either way, it's been, what, a couple of years now, and I still can't get enough of this album. Absolutely essential for Aphex Twin fans, and not a bad starter-kit for newbies either.

Thank you, may I have another?.......2005-12-24

More melodies would have been nice; I may make my own remixes of these songs (I'd just be adding more melodies) in order to make the music more satisfying :) As always, he delivers those tantalizing drum beats and creates a great c.d., but there just weren't any songs that amazed me. Expect an interesting set of songs, just don't expect them to be mind-blowing. Of course, that's my point of view, if you're new to this genre, this could be mind-blowing; when I first heard Karsten Pflum (who led me to check out Richard James) I was totally blown away.

26 Mixes For Cash.......2005-10-02

Ok I give little green papers and get this? What a deal! Depending on how you pay for this whether it be through a few small numbers (credit card), a $20 piece of paper, or 20 one dollar pieces of paper, you are getting a mighty fine deal.

Let me start off by saying Aphex Twin is not a thing of the past, because the music is classic. It has a certain beauty to it that sets it apart. Some of the tracks on "26 Mixes For Cash" have a greater track length than his previous material, which is a pretty darned good thing. This is because the majority of the tracks are quite trance-like, but not in a club-ish, repetitive sense. There is a sense of sameness throughout each track but it has great subtle variety which one would only notice after a few listens. There are interesting parts in each track which sound like they could be organically made through instrumental group but it is somehow all put together using computer electronics.

I would say his first recording, SAW 85-92, was his most important release, the Richard D. James album is his most defined of the crazy persona which is Aphex Twin, and this is his most trance-like, beautiful, polished, and expertly nob twiddled recording.

This recording is different than the other Aphex Twins in the sense that it is more digestible, because of its organic nature. It's sort of like a more recent version of Selected Ambient Works 85-92, except this one covers a greater variety of sounds and is more intricate. If you like electronic music then you will love this CD, no joke. This is a defining moment for electronic music and how far out the genre can reach, which is so diverse, at the same time slightly minimalistic, but not at any point is it uninteresting.

Basically you should own this CD, and I will put my foot down that if you do not love it, you need to try a different genre because you are cray-z. It is a very nice mix of techno, drill & bass, drum & bass, ambience, and electronic in extraordinary chilling beauty whether it be dark, sparse, or haunting bliss. This is a hard album to give highlights, and all the tracks have their own feel, making this one of the most impressive CDs I've heard yet.

Bleeps. Bloops. Kinda blah........2005-03-08

I bought this after hearing the remix of Gavin Bryars' "Sinking of the Titanic," (the original is a beautiful piece of music; the remix is cool, too). The rest of 26 Mixes, well....

Disc 1 is ok, but most of the tracks make their points early and then go on for too long. Disc 2 is, however, pretty lousy. Apparently, taking a tune, dicing it up and making it sound like basically a hard drive crashing is of interest to some folks. It's of interest to me, too .... briefly.

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Absolutely Exhilirating!
One of his best
Man, I just love this CD
This is my all-time favorite CD.
Soothing, refreshing, and beautiful.

Europa
Chris Spheeris , and Paul Voudouris
Manufacturer: Essence Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008PZB
Release Date: 1995-09-08

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Orlando
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Customer Reviews:

Absolutely Exhilirating!.......2004-12-01

I can't count how many times I have listen to this cd since I purchased it in '95. When I am having a dinner party, or just cleaning up the house. it's one that is sure to be played. I definitely recommend this cd. It makes you feel really good inside. The music Chris Spheeris creates has a very sexy sound to it.

One of his best.......2001-09-26

I first heard Chris Spheeris while in Las Vegas at the Luxor hotel in a gift shop. His music was play ing and it was beautiful. I asked the cashier what is that music playing and she showed me the CD which they were on sale there. I have loved it ever since and when other people hear it playing they have been enchanted with it also. The acoutics are fantastic.

Man, I just love this CD.......2001-05-26

It's so lush and rhythmic. Makes nice background music for the soundtrack of your day to day life.

This is my all-time favorite CD........1999-08-06

This music is lush and layered. It has a delicate European flavor to it that is very palatable to the domestic tongue. There is something special about the combination of piano with acoustic guitar that's like peas and carrots. And, oh yes, it's the music that my wife and I fell in love to.

Soothing, refreshing, and beautiful........1998-05-30

I love this CD! It is the first CD I have listened to by these artists, and now I am looking into their other works. The music on this CD is peaceful, envigorating, relaxing, and exciting- all at the same time. I enjoy listening to it both while doing something else or just listening! It's great new age music and has wonderful sound.

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Eerie, disturbing musical soundtrip
Madcap for Offbeat

Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound Trip
Various Artists
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Release Date: 1996-02-27

Tracks:

Intro-Transnational Lullabye - Skylab
Ryu-Ki - DJ Krush
A Train - Christian McBride/Joey DeFrancesco/DJ Krazy
Looking For The Jackalope - Laika
Krazy Groove - Christian McBride & DJ Krazy
Don Cherry - Skylab
Black Dada Nihilismus - Amir Baraka & DJ Spooky
Surrounded By Flowers/I.K.B. 95 - Skylab
Cartridgemusic - Tomandandy
Rain Rain/The Phone Call - Skylab
Murder Of Lawyers - Soul Coughing
I Control (Audio Collage #2) - Meat Beat Manifesto
Hip No Therapy - Barry Adamson
Why Do I?/Trepanation #1 - Skylab
It Goes Back - David Byrne
Laughing Groove - Christian McBride/Joey DeFrancesco/DJ Krazy
Incidental One - Mark Eitzel & My Bloody Valentine
Wait - Tortoise and Jeff Parker
I.K.B. 95 - Skylab
Characteristic Beat - Emergency Broadcast Network
Pinball / Visions of Rotterdam - Spookey Ruben
Temporally Displaced - DJ Spooky
Itsofomo (excerpt fronm 'Liberty' - Ben Neill & David Wojnarowicz
Incidental Peace - My Bloody Valentine & Skylab
Trepanation #3 - Skylab
Republican Party - Moby

Customer Reviews:

Eerie, disturbing musical soundtrip.......2006-03-11

This is one of the stranger releases in the Red Hot AIDS Benefit series. The album contains a mix of electronica, trip-hop, post-rock, spoken word, and ambient interludes. It forms a uniquely cohesive whole due to interludes that connect the various performances. It also is the gloomiest and darkest work released in the Red Hot series.

While the album as a whole certainly gels smoothly together, nonetheless, much of the album is essentially forgettable background noise (The pieces attributed to My Bloody Valentine are essentially Kevin Shields playing ambient noise in the distance-certainly don't go out of your way to buy this thinking it's some long lost Valentines classic; and Moby's track, while politically charged, is simply a baby crying over incidental laughter).

That said, there is some stunning, haunting music contained within. Laika's 'Looking for the Jackalope' ranks with the best things they've done. The guitar line on Tomandandy's 'Cartridgemusic' will never leave your head. And Soul Coughing and David Byrne both contribute thrilling beat-inspired sound collages.

So, while I find myself putting this album on at times for gloomy, rainy night background music, it is certainly not for all tastes. If you enjoy the work of Portishead, Tricky, or 'Combustication' by MMW, then you should like this.

Madcap for Offbeat.......2002-04-05

Love the jazzy beats. I was expecting a more electronic/dance vibe but was quite pleased to find a smoky chill trip on the beats. Each time I played it - I liked it just that much more. Plus, it benefits a worthwhile cause.

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