- Audio CD (2 Oct 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Cooltempo
- ASIN: B000024HZA
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a must have album. Imagine taking Massive Attack, Portishead, a fast car and the best day out ever and blending them all together in a liquidiser. The result is this album.
Upbeat when required, laid back in just the right amounts and will test your sound system to the extreme!!
Upbeat when required, laid back in just the right amounts and will test your sound system to the extreme!!
Purchase and enjoy!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought a preview copy of this way back in 1995 from Reckless Records. I still listen to it 12 years later. This album is not trip-hop. To call it trip-hop would be an injustice since for me it sits in several categories. Trip-hop as a sub-genre brings to mind down beat, plodding melodies. It shares some similarities with say Portishead as it has that 60s cinematic quality, but trip-hop albums tend to have one tone - set to 'stoner'.
Radar has some stoner tracks. But it's a much broader mixture of vibes and tempos. The main reason I object to the category is that it's musically superior to Tricky and Massive Attack - trip hop's royalty.
Tracks like 'I still love Albert Einstein' and 'By Means of Beams' offer heartfelt vocals that equal anything from those guys. Whilst tracks like 'Soup or no Soup' and 'Echo on my Mind' (with some top notch scratching) are sublime and catchy grooves that failed to create a buzz when they were released. God knows why these guys didn't make it. Maybe too many drugs down Berwick Manor...
A tale of child abuse, 'She only wanted to watch Planet of the Apes..' shows how credible these cats were lyrically.
'I could just die' brings the album into a more trip-hoppy conclusion - a caner's odyssey. Still this album is so much more than another reference to a mid 90s british musical movement. If it's missed your musical radar so far, I recommend you hit it now.
Radar has some stoner tracks. But it's a much broader mixture of vibes and tempos. The main reason I object to the category is that it's musically superior to Tricky and Massive Attack - trip hop's royalty.
Tracks like 'I still love Albert Einstein' and 'By Means of Beams' offer heartfelt vocals that equal anything from those guys. Whilst tracks like 'Soup or no Soup' and 'Echo on my Mind' (with some top notch scratching) are sublime and catchy grooves that failed to create a buzz when they were released. God knows why these guys didn't make it. Maybe too many drugs down Berwick Manor...
A tale of child abuse, 'She only wanted to watch Planet of the Apes..' shows how credible these cats were lyrically.
'I could just die' brings the album into a more trip-hoppy conclusion - a caner's odyssey. Still this album is so much more than another reference to a mid 90s british musical movement. If it's missed your musical radar so far, I recommend you hit it now.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
classic
One of the best British hip hop/trip hop albums ever. Great rapping and lyrics with brilliant production. Tricky meets Portishead.
Published on 14 Jun 2006 by rageintothenight
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