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PERSUASION / LOWLIFE / SIMPLEX / HARMONIA / JUPITER Subway are made up of alan james and michael kirkman, here on soul jazz they bring us some weird and experimental electronica!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Respect to Soul Jazz Records. Although normally associated with Jamaican music, they have released a selection of other styles and seem to have an unerring ability to find quality in the unlikeliest of places. Just when you think you have pinned their style down, they shift the goalposts often delighting in the process. When I heard about this record, and it's Krautrock influenced Electro I thought...it's gotta be done! Bought it blind, always a risk...but I had faith in the label.
Last time I heard this style done so well was some of the Crystal Castles output and maybe bits of Nathan Fake. Pure electronica...lots of bleepy arpeggiated synths, swirling pads and 80s drum machines, the odd guitar riff......no vocal, but with a strong feeling for groove and melody holding it all altogether...very Germanic...very Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream or Can...but informed by modern Techno and Electro.
More chilled than full on danceable, but the insistent grooves are compelling. A couple of tunes fall foul of noodling which is why it only gets four stars, but Persuasion, Lowlife, Jupiter, Xam are lovely, oddly but wonderfully uplifting things. A great album, heartily recommended.
Last time I heard this style done so well was some of the Crystal Castles output and maybe bits of Nathan Fake. Pure electronica...lots of bleepy arpeggiated synths, swirling pads and 80s drum machines, the odd guitar riff......no vocal, but with a strong feeling for groove and melody holding it all altogether...very Germanic...very Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream or Can...but informed by modern Techno and Electro.
More chilled than full on danceable, but the insistent grooves are compelling. A couple of tunes fall foul of noodling which is why it only gets four stars, but Persuasion, Lowlife, Jupiter, Xam are lovely, oddly but wonderfully uplifting things. A great album, heartily recommended.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've noticed this appearing on some people's best of 2009 lists and so it should be. Full marks to Soul Jazz. This deserves to be heard.
Comparisons will be made with Krautrock and I've seen other reviews refer to this as "retro." Not at all.
This is fresh, challenging and frankly beautiful music - kaleidoscopic pulses that pull you in one direction and the next - swirling you into another world.
I love the shimmering "Lowlife," and the deliciously kitch, "Simplex." The record ends with the uplifting, incredible "Xam." All of it deserves a listen. Buy it now.
Comparisons will be made with Krautrock and I've seen other reviews refer to this as "retro." Not at all.
This is fresh, challenging and frankly beautiful music - kaleidoscopic pulses that pull you in one direction and the next - swirling you into another world.
I love the shimmering "Lowlife," and the deliciously kitch, "Simplex." The record ends with the uplifting, incredible "Xam." All of it deserves a listen. Buy it now.
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Moody analog space disco
22 Aug 2009
The music conjures images of The Warriors and Escape From New York. Atmospheric yet danceable.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Germany circa '74
5 Jan 2010
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This album harkens back to the good old days of German prog-synth of the Seventies. Fans of Tangerine Dream and motorik beats will be welcomed!
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