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Not Here To Please You (USB Stick 128mb)

~ Hadouken (Artist)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (12 Nov 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000X25FG4
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 88,585 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Bounce
2. Prayer - Bloc Party
3. Leap Of Faith
4. Liquid Lives
5. Liquid Lives
6. Girls
7. No More Eatin' - Plan B (2)
8. Love Sweat And Beer
9. Tree Friends Tree Foe - Bolt Action Five
10. Tuning In
11. Dance Lesson
12. You Can't Be That

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Some evidence London indie-grime outfit Hadouken! aren’t planning on doing things by the rules: rather than releasing a debut album, Not Here to Please You is the band’s debut "mixtape", a twelve track collection of new tracks, refixed old tracks, and remixes of other bands, released on a USB stick to tide over the band’s burgeoning fanbase before the album proper. The music itself is similarly unconventional, a day-glo splatter of rave keyboards, choppy grime beats, wobbling basslines and chundering guitars cut and spliced together with seemingly little care for structure or coherency. It’s at its best when it’s at its silliest--take the chorus of "Liquid Lives", which recalls The Prodigy in all their snotty prime, frontman James Smith chanting "Drink! Smoke! Fuck! Fight!" over scraped-knuckle guitars and clattering breakbeats. The remixes, too, are an inspired idea: Bloc Party’s "The Prayer" and Plan B’s "No More Eatin’" get peppered with bleeps and dropped in amongst the chaos. Sadly, the mixtape’s weaker moments, like "Tuning It"--an unpleasant story of a nightclub seduction that shows off some of James’ shortcomings, both as storyteller and rapper-–suggests Hadouken! have some work to do before they can pull off a whole album. –- Louis Pattison


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This debut full-length from the dayglo Leeds grindie band is a "mixtape" featuring six new songs, remixes of single tracks, and their remixes of other artists, notably Bloc Party and Plan B. Here, their ultra-modernist mashup of grime, metal, punk and pop - which has seen them crowned forerunners of the "new rave" scene - is as frantic as ever, and appeals directly to their predominantly teenaged and tech-savvy fanbase by being the first ever USB stick only music release.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Amazin, 30 Oct 2007
By J. D. Bauld "eachan" (Hexham (near newcastle)) - See all my reviews
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That Has to be one of mi fave albums and it is even on a memory stick how cool is that
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10 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Hadouken! Can F*** Right Off, 27 Nov 2007
By Master B. J. Bateson "el cid" (Isle of Man) - See all my reviews
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First of all I'd like to point out that I like Hadouken! as much as the next man - they do a great live act and they genuinely are something fresh and original. I do not usually give bands I admire a poor rating if the album is a good one.
However, they really have taken things one step too far with this one. The last mixtape was only released over the internet, which I could deal with, after all, so was Radiohead's "In Rainbows" and that was a serious contender for album of the year.
This one though really takes the biscuit. Having said they wanted to do "something different", they decided to release this one only on USB drives. Mistake. It's as though they are crying out to be accepted as one of the fore-runners of the NME fantasy that is "Nu-Rave" - desperate to be at the front of technology to make a statement. This USB drive really is a shocker. When I put it into my computer it simply rejected it over and over again - my computer recognized it as a hard drive then spat it back out again like it was a piece of gristle. Which leads me onto my next point. After managing to put it onto a mate's computer and sending it to my own via MSN (2 hours after first attempting to put it onto mine)I find out that the whole album is just one big mix. Now this doesn't annoy me normally, as I regularly buy mixtapes (Daft Punk's Alive 1997 for example) - but this one clearly stated that it had separate tracks in the first place. What's wrong with having the whole album mixed but still having separate tracks? Just about every single drum & bass artist manages it - why can't this lot do it? So you fancy listening to "Tuning In"? Well tough sh*t sonny because you'll have to fast-forward about 25 minutes into the mix to find the bastard.
Do yourselves a favour and DO NOT buy this album - Hadouken! are pretty good but they really aren't worth the hernia-inducing stress levels that this thing caused me.

Kudos to anyone who managed to read this rant - I apologize profusely to those who did.

P.S. There is a program that allows you to split the tracks yourself - search "Hadouken USB doesnt work" into Google and click on one of the lower down search results. Some guy has posted a link on a forum. You download a piece of software that splits the mix for you, it's really easy to use.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars defines 'nu-rave', 3 Mar 2008
By Master D. J. Sutton "dan_the_music_man" (Wiltshire) - See all my reviews
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now, alot of guys on here are complaining about this because it is either on an 'unusable' USB pen, or they complain because it is one big mix, yes, if you want to get tone track up,it can be annoying, but listen to the WHOLE THING!!! for a start, its all AMAZING, and its great for a long journey.

Even then, its worth it just to hear the new liquid lives remix, it is INSANE,if you liked it before, you'll go nuts when you hear this!!

BUY IT, it's definitley worth it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nu Rave Rules!!!
Unlike others i didn't have no problems with the USB and i got 2 really embrace the album and i have 2 say it is a whopper!!!! Quirky cool lyrics combined with electronic beats. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Music fan

1.0 out of 5 stars USB Drive Does Not Work
If you are considering buying this album, please try and find an alternative to the USB release. I, like many others, cannot get the USB drive to load up. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Oliver Coningham

1.0 out of 5 stars rubbish
indie new rave is rubbish. if u want a band that combines dance, rock and hardcore u shud listen to enter shikari. no one puts on a live show like them. they rock!! peace out fools
Published 24 months ago by ben jones

3.0 out of 5 stars The memory stick was a bad choice...
I don't know if anyone is having the same problem or not with the USB stick but i've heard all tracks bar one which is the tree friend tree foe remix and I've been wanting to hear... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Mr. D. Coles

5.0 out of 5 stars Hadouken!
These have got to be one of the most exciting bands in the uk right now. saw them live a couple of weeks ago and they were amazing. proper party music. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2007 by Chazzabodda

4.0 out of 5 stars Hadouken!!! Remixxx
Some genuinely good tracks on there, although I'd appreciate included Liquid Lives single tracks. Interested to see what the USB looks like, I'll blatantly be the envy of all my... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2007 by S. Taylor

1.0 out of 5 stars If this is the future of music...
...God help us all, it's the most diabolal music I have ever heard, even worst than Crazy Frog. Can someone just take Hadouken outside and put them to rest before they cause more... Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2007 by The Music Reviewer

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