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  • Audio CD (3 Dec 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rephlex
  • ASIN: B00005RKQD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 255,079 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Cylob is probably better known for his wilder dancefloor excursions: see "Rewind" and "Living In The 1980s", a couple of grin-inducing career stand-outs that hitched retrogressive disco sounds to the feverish scope of experimental dance. Mood Bells, however, is far from the spirit of Braindance, as commonly practised by the likes of AFX and Bogdan Raczynski. Pieced together in the spirit, if not the exact sound, of Japanese minimalism, this peculiar record rolls out a near-bare soundscape of vibrations--the ring of a number of bells, gongs, chimes and vibraphones, digitally bent and tweaked into mutant forms. At first, its relentless pursuit of minimalism is frustrating, but taken in the right spirit, Mood Bells has much in common with Susumu Yokota's modern ambient works, Grinning Cat and Sakura: a warped symphony of sounds both modern and ancient, blended together in a meditative and serene canvas of sounds. --Louis Pattison


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This is a home listening album that makes the music on current chillout compilations look about as deep and pleasurable as a cold tin bath, a bottle of matey and a dirty old flannel. This is luxury music.
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3.0 out of 5 stars bells, gongs and more bells, 7 Dec 2003
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To say this is minimalist is an understatement. Essentially this revolves around the sound of very large bells and gongs and their natural decay. Processing is limited to the occasional or ineffective, rather than a matmos-style construction. So essentially this is just bells. My knowledge of the traditional gong music on which this is based is somewhat lacking, but I think that would be a much better starting point for anyone interested in this type of music. Cylob fans should be an open-minded bunch so I wouldn't advise against this as long as they know what to expect. Not like Aphex Twin then.
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5.0 out of 5 stars moon bells, 29 Mar 2005
well i'm going to stick up for this album as no-one else seems to like it that much. if you treat it as ambient, which it ain't, it will get on your nerves. if you give it a chance to be itself you will be rewarded. totally different from cylob's usual manic lo-taste beat blasts (which i also love), the sound of eastern bells and gongs are subtly plasticized in the sampler, gently repitched and pitchbended into beguiling melodies in that splendid way you will know from other cylob tunes. the way the sounds are projected into your world from this cd is superb.
being the most original and successful thing i've heard on rephlex, it's a bold and genuine peice of sonic sculpture which will mould your brainwaves into it's own construction of strange beauty. mr cylob should do more stuff like this!
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