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Groove Armada's newest Late Night Tales is the 20th release of the series. Having provided the series with its biggest seller to date Andy Cato and Tom Findlay have been invited back to publicly rifle through their records and memory banks with the March 2008 Tales. Like all the rest of the series, it features music that inspired them, moves them or are just some of their favourite tracks. Based on the longstanding idea of the mix tape personalised for friends and lovers, this offers a selection of some great tunes, resequenced and reedited to form a new mix to listen to in the privacy of your own room.
If you like the GA and '80s electronica, you probably already own most of the tracks on this CD (Depeche Mode, The Human League, Roxy Music, Electronic and The Cure) but it's a joy to hear some of the remixes, particularly of Elle Et Moi by Max Berlin and the superb reversioning of Gaz Numan's Are Friends Electric (exclusive to this CD and based on a live track by the boys). There's new as well as old, too. Old, such as Marvin Gaye and Tami Tyrell, Stevie Wonder, and new, Peter, Bjorn and John or Midlake. However the biggest surprise of the album is the almost credible Will Young track, Friday's Child.
This series has been a great one for opening eyes to obscure artists you've never heard before, reminding you of tracks you haven't heard in ages and providing you with a feeling of nostalgia for the days when friends made you tapes with your name scrawled all over them. In this case, by treading a more familiar line, the new LNT, doesn't exactly do any of those things. It might not keep you up all night, but it does offer that pleasant combination of funk and electro that you've come to associate with the Groovers. --Susie Goldring
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Coming to this series as a "newbie" I must admit I can't say I have much experience with the other titles but I feel I can post my thoughts on this release after listening to it a fair few times :-)
Having listened to more than my fair share of "Chillout" / "afterparty" albums in my time I have found a niche that I quite enjoy, that of the Art of Chill / Euphoria Chill albums (The first two, mixed by Red Jerry). Now I can see where people might bite my head off, "they are more commercial releases", "not as original as others out there" and so on. Whilst I agree that they are not as mesmerisingly good as they were when first released they do hold their own, I feel, when looking for an album to relax to after a rather hectic nights hedonism!
As mentioned, I'm new to this series and perhaps I need to listen to a few of the other albums available but I can't say I felt particularly chilled after listening to it. Yes there were some great moments (as others have mentioned, not really worth repeating except to say I'll join in the encore for more!).
I've given it around 5 complete "listen throughs" and I still end up wishing for that little extra bit of magic that would turn it into a really enjoyable album for me.
Going into it with an open mind though, I can say that some of the tracks themselves are very strong, even though they are not really what I would call "chillout". I'd sooner compare it to Chicane Presents Visions of Ibiza as I feel a similar way about that album. Obviously that one has a more Balearic "feel" to it but I feel the range of tracks and the breadth of artists having been chosen is quite similar in that there aren't many "mainstream" tracks being showcased (there are other "series" out there for that kind of album).
A very strong 3/5 from me, probably a 4/5 but I just don't feel able to give it that extra star as it didn't really give me what I was looking for.
One sentence summary?
"Good album, exposing a lot of hidden talent, but not really a first choice if you are looking for that "sunrise" balearic chill music."
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