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Original Soundtrack
Meaty, bouncy and trancey--this is the sound of someone's summer. It is certainly the soundtrack for the one million Britons that visit Ibiza each year. Harry Enfield's brassy parody of the scene exploits this by including tracks from Underworld, Fatboy Slim and Fragma ("Toca's Miracle") which catch the ambience, decadence and speed of the Balearic isle. The exclusives cut for the movie are more intriguing: Enfield and Kathy Burke's novelty banger "Precocious Brat" and trancehead Matt Darey's piece for Rhys Ifans, "Eyeball Paul Theme Tune". Although it must be hard to mock the sound of Ibiza when the island's favoured records are either cheap and fast or absurdly pompous,...
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The Chemical Brothers
Chemical Bros, The - Surrender Electronic Brazil Import
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Fatboy Slim
Biographers of Norman Cook should look no further than the title of this--his second album under the pseudonym Fatboy Slim. From humble beginnings as the bass player in prole rock band The Housemartins, through chart-topping fame with Beats International, and even a spell scraping a meagre living from writing computer game soundtracks in the early 90s, Norman Cook has done it all. You've Come A Long Way, Baby, though, is the Fatboy's culmination; the quintessential, and utterly essential big-beat album. "The Rockafeller Skank" is a manic collage of surf-guitar looped into ever-tightening spirals; utterly simplistic, but a work of devilish genius. "Gangster ...
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The Chemical Brothers
A key record of the 1990s, Exit Planet Dust invented the big-beat style that dominated British dance music in the second half of the decade, and it still sounds superb in its own right. Skull-crunching hip-hop loops, fuzz guitar, insistently repetitive spoken samples and thunderous basslines make up the blueprint for one of the most instantly energising albums ever recorded. Many of the titles--"Chemical Beats", "Fuck Up Beats", "Chico's Groove"--are fairly self-explanatory. Others show a level of erudite humour; "Song To The Siren" filches the name of a Tim Buckley ballad for a track more in keeping with the mysteries of a car alarm, while "One Too Many Mornings" ...
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The Prodigy
Music For The Jilted Generation, despite commercial success, was a harsh underground rave statement proving that Essex rave auteur Liam Howlett could transcend the novelty acid house of many of his peers. Fat Of The Land, however, showed a very different side to The Prodigy; the exaggerated punk pastiche of "Firestarter" and "Breathe", with vocals provided by the band's cartoon Johnny Rotten, Keith Flint, proved that The Prodigy were, at heart, showmen. Fat was as influenced by American punk as it was by any form of dance music--demonstrated with a furious cover of L7's "Fuel My Fire"--and such a destructive, passionate fusion saw The Prodigy topping ...
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The Prodigy
- 1 - Intro
- 2 - Break and enter
- 3 - Their law
- 4 - Full throttle
- 5 - Voodoo people
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The Chemical Brothers
- 1 - Block Rockin' Beats
- 2 - Dig Your Own Hole
- 3 - Elektrobank
- 4 - Piku
- 5 - Setting Sun
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Original Soundtrack
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The Prodigy
Before music journalists were throwing around terms like "drum & bass" or jungle, the Prodigy's Liam Howlett was creating high-energy dance music by marrying sampled, pitch-shifted beats to all manner of electronic timbres. This album has it all: complicated break beats, housey piano riffs, lush analog pads, frenetic and computeresque melodies, and subsonic bass. In fact, the mélange is so dense that the material demands full attention and repeated listenings to gain a complete understanding of the rhythmic interplay. --Michael A. Massa
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Death In Vegas
Death In Vegas - Scorpio Rising Brazil Import
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