ODDITIES

Reseña del editor ODDITIES is a perfect name for this Spring Heel Jack disc. Not only are these rare and hard-to-find recordings; they'realso some of the more extreme excursions members Coxon and Wales have recorded. There's nothing here that could be considered jungle or drum-and-bass; instead, SHJ's penchant for dense, dissonant textures and 20th century classical music, previously only hinted at, is brought completely to the fore.Soundscapes such as "Piece for Six Turntables", "2nd Piece for La Monte Young", and "Trouble" (for DJ Trouble of experimental New Jersey radio station WFMU), are sure to be a challenge for some; others won't be able to get enough of them. Take special note of SHJ's reworking of William Burroughs' "The Road to the Western Lands", which new soundtrack makes Burroughs' monologue sound all the more ominous. Críticas Oddities is the perfect title for this album, which is billed as an "'official bootleg' featuring music from (the group's) private collection" and which collects compilation tracks and other ephemera selected from Spring Heel Jack's various side projects. Those in search of the artsy, refined drum'n'bass that has always been this band's stock in trade will be disappointed; in fact, grooves of any kind are pretty much absent. But those with a taste for the weird, the abstract, and the avant-garde will find a lot to like here. The program includes modern musique concrete ("Trouble," "Piece for Six Turntables"), dubwise sinewave sculpture ("Shine a Light"), raver minimalism ("2nd Piece for LaMonte Young"), and the group's remix of Material's "Road to the Western Lands," which features the voice of William Burroughs intoning factoids about Egyptian soul death over an eerie and deeply reverberant ambient soundscape. The only steady rhythm to be found is on the album's opening track, a fuzzy conglomeration of nested guitar loops and keyboard samples. This is a consistently interesting album, if not always a completely enjoyable one. --All Music Guide

Detalles del producto Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5,6 x 0,5 x 4,9 pulgadas; 3,2 Onzas Fabricante : Thirsty Ear Número de modelo del producto : Oddities Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2000 Producto en Tienda desde : enero 20, 2007 Etiqueta : Thirsty Ear ASIN : B00004SWBK Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº584,835 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº612 en Batería y Bajo nº19,435 en Pop Dance Opiniones de clientes: 3.0 3.0 de 5 estrellas (1) Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5,6 x 0,5 x 4,9 pulgadas; 3,2 Onzas Fabricante : Thirsty Ear Número de modelo del producto : Oddities Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2000 Producto en Tienda desde : enero 20, 2007 Etiqueta : Thirsty Ear ASIN : B00004SWBK Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº584,835 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº612 en Batería y Bajo nº19,435 en Pop Dance Opiniones de clientes: 3.0 3.0 de 5 estrellas (1)