Tracks Pure Chillout
- Clannad - Theme From Harry's Game
- Moby - Porcelain
- Delerium - Silence (Album Version)
- Coldplay - Trouble
- Massive Attack feat. Tracey Thorn - Protection
- Ennio Morricone - The Mission
- Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Pt1
- Air - All I Need
- Enigma - Return To Innocence
- Yanni - Prelude
- Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme
- Kinobe - Slip Into Something More Comfortable
- The BBC Concert Orchestra - The Blue Planet
- Moloko - Sing It Back (Album Version)
- Röyksopp - So Easy
- Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin - Woodbrook
- John Williams - Cavatina
- Art Of Noise - Moments In Love
- Adiemus - Adiemus
- Nitin Sawhney - Sunset
- Goldfrapp - Lovely Head
- Zero 7 - Destiny
- Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai
- Julie London - Cry Me A River
- Nick Drake - River Man
- Eva Cassidy - Tall Trees In Georgia
- Satie - Gymnopédie No1
- Kings Of Convenience - I Don't Know What I Can Save You From
- Craig Armstrong - Weather Storm
- Ultravox - Dreams?
- Sacred Spirit - Yeha-noha
- Paris Opéra-Comique Orchestra - Flower Duet (Lakmé)
- Thomas Newman - Any Other Name (Theme From "American Beauty")
- Groove Armada - At The River
- Dusty Springfield - The Look Of Love
- Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy - Barber's Adagio For Strings
- Roxy Music - Tara
- Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise
- Enigma - Sadeness
- Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Release date: 2001-11-26
Price: £17.99
Review Pure Chillout / Various Artists:
Tracks The Magic Dragon
- Jericho
- Remembrance
- Subway Freedom
- Mr Gone
- Heavy Weather
- The Love Room
- Summer Lightning
- Afterwards @ The Bar
- Whose Blues
- The Rose Room
- La Telecabine
Release date: 2003-08-18
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.83
Review The Magic Dragon / Caia:
Tracks Ministry of Sound Trance Nation 2
- Sasha - Arkham Asylum
- Destination Sunshine - Balearic Bill
- Lost Witness - Red Sun Rising (Lange Mix)
- Outface 2000 [DJ Tom Stevens Remixxx] - DJ Tom Stevens
- Signum - What Ya Got 4 Me
- Paul Van Dyk - Avenue
- System F - Out of The Blue
- 808 State - Pacific Origin
- For What You Dream Of [Full On Renaissance Mix] - Bedrock, KYO
- Lucid - Crazy (Nalin & Kane FDF Red Star Mix)
- Gamemaster [Signum Mix] - Lost Tribe
- Revelation [Ferry Corsten Mix] - Electrique Boutique
- Aptness - The Answer
- Carte Blanche - Veracocha
- Mantra (Forever) [Original Mix] - Quake
- Flaming June [BT and PVD Original Mix] - BT
- Bedrock - Heaven Scent
- Balearic Bill - Destination Sunshine
- The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia (En Motion Mix)
- Prototype - Sound Piercing (Omni Remix)
- Synaesthesia (Fly Away) [En Motion Mix] - Thrillseekers
- Fade - Ambassador of Love
- Lost Tribe - Gamemaster (Signum Mix)
- Brainbug - Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix)
- Nalin & Kane - Beachball (Extended Vocal Mix)
- Hybrid - If I Survive
- Vincent De Moor - Flowtation
- Flowtation [Original Mix] - Vincent de Moor
- Answer - Aptness
- Mario Pui - Communication (Mas Mix)
- ATB - Don't Stop (X Cabs Remix)
- Agnelli & Nelson - El Nino (Matt Darey Mix)
- Electrique Boutique - Revelation
- Pacific [Origin] - 808 State
- Ayla - Ayla (Veracocha Mix)
- DJ Jug
- Ambassador - The Fade
- Matt Darey Presents Mash up - Liberation (Matt Darey Remix)
- Armin - Communication
- Greece 2000 - 3 Drives
- Humate - Love Stimulation
- Better off Alone [Vocal Club Mix] - Alice Deejay
- DJ Tom Stevens vs. Koma Squad - Outface 2000 (DJ Tom Stevens Remix)
- Binary Finary - 1999 (Gouryella Mix)
- Out of the Blue [5AM Mix] - System F
- Love Stimulation - Humate
- Sound Piercing [Omni Remix] - Prototype
- What Ya Got 4 Me - Signum
- Rising Star - Touch Me
- Quake - Mantra (Forever)
- Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade (Nalin & Kane Remix)
- Bedrock Feat K.Y.O - For What You Dream Of (Full On Renaisa Mix)
- BT - Flaming June (BT & PVD Original Mix)
- GD - Choral Reef
- Veracocha - Carte Blanche
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £18.99
Price: £12.99
Review Ministry of Sound Trance Nation 2 / Various Artists:As trance continues its ascendancy of of the world's club scene, so to rises the chequebook DJ-an unscrupulous type that cobbles together a ropy compilation in order to con those sun-addled punters eager to re-capture that Balearic daze. Thankfully, Trance Nation 2 was pieced together for Ministry Of Sound on the decks of Ferry Corsten, the man behind System F, and at the time of release, one of trance's hottest names. Eager to come on like the definitive article, Trance Nation 2 is plain in its intention and clearly aims to be the be-all, end-all if-you-only-buy-one-trance-compilation, but that's not to cast aspersions on its ruthless appeal. Remember that this stuff only tore the charts to pieces in the first place because it filled so many dancefloors, and there's no room to be sniffy when the likes of Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone", ATB's "Don't Stop" and System F's "Out Of The Blue" are plainly such cast-iron anthems. -Louis Pattison.
Publisher: Creation Records
Price: £2.49
Review Echo Dek / Creation Records:Remix albums are tricky things to pull off. Often, the remix compilation is the record label's way of eking the last drops from a commercially successful artist whose popularity is beginning to wane. Of course, this is not always the case. Echo Dek, a total dub overhaul of Primal Scream's excellent Vanishing Point, stands alone as a great album. This is largely thanks to the inspirational decision to employ legendary dub reggae producer Adrian Sherwood as chief remixer. Sherwood pays the originals much respect, yet still stamps his authority on proceedings. The resultant dubs-spacious, bass-heavy, multi-textured creations-are as good as anything Sherwood has done in the last five or 10 years. Tracks like "Kowalski", "Burning Wheel" and "Trainspotting"-which employed dub soundscapes in original form-are taken to the cleaners with great effect. There are a couple of clangers, but overall the result is stunning and at times invigorating. Echo Dek is one of the better remix albums, on a par with Massive Attack's dub remix No Protection. [+]-Matt Anniss.
Tracks Babylon Rewound
- Un Simple Histoire
- Until The Morning
- Outernationalist
- Richest Man In Babylon
- Truth And Rights
- Resolution
- Until The Morning
- State Of The Union
- Exilio
Release date: 2004-11-15
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.64
Review Babylon Rewound / Thievery Corporation:
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Tracks Foxbase Alpha (Extra Track) [Us Import]
- Nothing Can Stop Us
- Spring
- London Belongs to Me
- Dilworth's Theme
- Kiss and Make Up
- People Get Real
- She's the One
- Like the Swallow
- Girl VII
- Stoned to Say the Least
- Carnt Sleep
- Only Love Can Break Your Heart
- Wilson
- Etienne Gonna Die
- This Is Radio Etienne
Release date: 1999-12-23
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.84
Review Foxbase Alpha (Extra Track) [Us Import] / St. Etienne:
Tracks Dropsonde
- In Triple Time
- Daphnis 26
- Warmed By The Drift
- Altostratus
- From A Solid To A Liquid
- Sherbrooke
- Fall In Fall Out
- Arafura
- Dissolving Clouds
- Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings
- People Are Friends
Release date: 2006-01-30
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.62
Review Dropsonde / Biosphere:
Tracks 604
- Zmeyka
- He Took Her to a Movie
- Ladybird
- Another Breakfast with You
- Way That I Found You
- Commodore Rock
- I'm with the Pilots
- He Took Her to a Movie [Live][*]
- USA vs. White Noise [Live][*]
- Laughing Cavalier
- Skools Out...
- Mu-Tron
- Playgirl [Snap Ant Remix][*]
- Playgirl
- Jet Age
- Commodore Rock [Live][*]
- Paco!
- Cska Sofia
- Discotraxx
- This Is Our Sound
Release date: 2004-07-26
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.19
Review 604 / Ladytron:
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Tracks Mezzanine: Limited Edition [VINYL]
- Risingson
- Group 4
- Angel
- Teardrop
- Mezzanine
- Dissolved Girl
- Exchange
- Inertia Creeps
- Exchange (2)
- Black Milk
- Man Next Door
Release date: 1998-04-06
RRP: £18.99
Price: £29.49
Review Mezzanine: Limited Edition [VINYL] / Massive Attack:By the release of 1998's Mezzanine, critics were suddenly of the understanding that Massive Attack were one of the most important bands in the world. Bristol's original trip-hop pioneers had, on previous albums Blue Lines and Protection, fused turntable wizardry to the warmest of soul. With Mezzanine, however, the party had ended; revisiting the murky soundscapes so favoured by former partner and fellow Bristolian Tricky, the comeback single "Rising Son" muttering edgily about "cheap beer filled with crocodile tears", over the deepest bass. Tensions were heightened by the news that the making of Mezzanine was riven by inter-band rifts. The friction, though, seems to have create some gems; "Inertia Creeps" is drenched in menace, and "Teardrop" features the ethereal vocals of Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins-both of these a benchmark not just for the band, but for the trip-hop genre. Bleak, but powerfully beautiful. -Louis Pattison.
Publisher: xtravaganza
Price: £10.95
Review behind the sun / Chicane:Since the release of his debut album, Far From The Maddening Crowds, Chicane's Nick Bracegirdle has been a bit of a busy chap. After tastefully reupholstered the Clannad classic "Theme From Harry's Game" into a melodic-trance masterpiece, he then confounded all expectations by taking rock atheist Bryan Adams to the top of the charts with the friskily euphoric "Don't Give Up". These pop-dance lovelies only paint half the picture though. In between the strident hooks and glacial breakdowns which characterise his Ibizan leanings, Bracegirdle also demonstrates a not-to-be-wasted classical training. The rest of the album pitches moist, velvety pads against ear-tickling flute and a smooth, cocooning ambience. The wistful "Autumn Tactics" glides along like a loved-up Beth Orton-distant guitars chiming over whispered breakbeats, while "Low Sun" taking the baton from A Man Called Adam is like a pure Balearic dawn. All in all, prerequisite summer listening. -Paul Tierney.
Tracks The Rough Guide to Arabesque
- Beyrouth ecoeuree - Clotaire K
- Sidi mansour (remix) - Bled Runner feat. Dida Brother
- S'habi (Stereomovers remix) - Ali Slimani
- Zanzibar - DuOuD (Mehdi Haddab-Smadj)
- Frere faut que tu saches - Mafia Maghrebine
- Fantasy - Oojami
- A muey a muey - Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects
- Lahillah express (remix) - Gnawa Impulse
- Desert dancer - Nickodemus feat. Andrea Montiero
- Dourbiha - MoMo
- Tango - Soap Kills
- Aalash kwawna - U-Cef
Release date: 2002-06-24
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.99
Review The Rough Guide to Arabesque / Various Artists:
Tracks Breakdown - the Very Best Euphoric Chillout Mixes Vol.2
- I won't let you down - WIP & Emmie (Jay Welsh 'Black Ice' chilled remix)
- Beachball - Nalin & Kane
- First - Private Taste (Ashtrax ambient score)
- In a landscape - William Orbit
- Oxygene (part 2) - Jean Michel Jarre
- Inside - Moby
- Building a fire - James & Brian Eno
- Overture - Chicane
- Helsinki - Ashtrax (ambient mix)
- Bob and Rose (theme) - Stewart & Bradley James
- Into the dawn - Accadia
- Belfast - Orbital
- We come 1 - Faithless (Elliot J remix)
- American dream - Jakatta (Tranquillo dawn over New York remix)
- Dream on - Depeche Mode (Dave Clarke acoustic version)
- Das glockenspiel - Schiller (Schill out mix)
- Beautiful strange - Bedrock
- Slide - Agnelli & Nelson
- Strange world - Push (Underwater Kingdom remix)
- Dirty epic - Underworld
- Eugina - Salt Tank (Sargasso Sea mix 2000)
- Here with me - Dido (Rollo's chillin' with the family mix)
- Resurection - PPK (Node Instant mix)
- Don't leave - Faithless (Euphoric mix)
- Strings of life - Plank 15 (Soul Mekanik remix)
- Elegia - New Order
- 21st century - Weekend Players
- Kiss (The Last Of The Mohicans) - Various Artists
- Smoke belch II - Sabres Of Paradise (Beatless mix)
- Last Of The Mohicans (main title) - Various Artists
- Stella - Jam & Spoon
- Finished symphony - Hybrid
- When it's cold I'd like to die - Moby
- Under the red sea - Lost Tribe
- Para mi - Motivation (Friends Lovers & Family mix)
- Early - Chicane
- Chase the sun - Planet Funk (ambient radio mix)
- .3.2 - Humate (Bedrock ambient mix)
- Another chance - Roger Sanchez (Afterlife mix)
- Jabberwock - Solar Stone (chillout mix)
- B - Datar (Am 'B' ient mix)
- Elysium (Gladiator) - Lisa Gerrard
- Children - Robert Miles (original mix)
- No ordinary morning - Chicane
Release date: 2001-11-24
RRP: £17.99
Price: £19.99
Review Breakdown - the Very Best Euphoric Chillout Mixes Vol.2 / Various Artists:
Tracks The Battleship Potemkin
- "Comrades!"
- To The Battleship
- Stormy Meetings
- Men And Maggots
- Nyet
- Our Daily Bread
- No Time For Tears
- For Freedom
- Drama In The Harbour
- After All (The Odessa Staircase)
- Full Steam Ahead
- The Squardon
- Night Falls
- Odessa
- To The Shore
Release date: 2005-09-05
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.68
Review The Battleship Potemkin / Pet Shop Boys:Although generally happy to hide their more highbrow concerns beneath a postmodernist pop sheen, on Battleship Potemkin, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe let their artistic ambitions run free. Inspired by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein's desire that his revolutionary 1904 classic of the same name be furnished with a new score every decade to keep it fresh, here Tennant and Lowe have teamed up with the Dresden Sinfoniker orchestra in order to remake the original score with a contemporary flavour. One clue to the sound is through the presence of composer Torsten Rasch, who has formerly reworked the music of German industrial provocateurs Rammstein: the likes of "Nyet" and "Night Falls" share something of that band's deadpan hybrid of Wagnerian doom and pulsing electronics. More familiar to Pet Shop Boys fans will be three vocal originals-"Our Daily Bread", "No Time For Tears" and "After All (The Odessa Staircase)"-that boast lyrics inspired by the original subtitles (although the latter also contains pointed allusions to the Iraq war). Reviews have been mixed, some critics accusing Tennant and Lowe of overpowering the film with a showy, inappropriate score. As a stand-along piece, however, it's a modest success-thematically adventurous, and clever without allowing itself to get bogged down in an ironic morass. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks Come from Heaven
- Sometime Later
- Delaney
- Slim
- With
- Come From Heaven
- Back
- Somewhere
- My Things
- Herb
- Rain
- Hazledub
- Apple Orange
- Nyquil
Release date: 1997-09-15
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.14
Review Come from Heaven / Alpha:Alpha-Corin Dingley and Andy Jenks-are among the best of the trip-hop generation. Signed to Massive Attack's Melankolic label, their debut owes debts to Scott Walker, Burt Bacharach, and John Martyn, weaving shreds and swatches into something new. Yes, it is downbeat, the kind of music for long, lonely nights, but it is absolutely perfect for those nights. Guest vocalists help out as Dingley and Jenks manipulate the sounds and the strings, fill it all out beautifully. Crafted and inspired, one of '97's standouts. -Chris Nickson.
Tracks Chilled Out Euphoria: Digitally Mixed By Solar Stone
- Underwater world - Ibizarre
- Epsilon phase - Global Communication
- Silence (Michael Woods remix) - Delerium & SarahMcLachlan Underwaterfall - 2nd Element
- Peace (Michael Woods remix) - Saints & Sinners
- Charles - Beanfield
- Code - Faithless
- Song of life (Lemon Interupt mix) - Leftfield
- Moments in love - Art Of Noise
- Spacemen - Beloved
- Papua New Guinea (Dumb Child Of Q mix) - Future Sound Of London
- Strange world (underwater kingdom remix) - Push (2)
- Overture - Chicane (2)
- Milk (D-mix) - Garbage
- Arms of Loren - E'voke (1)
- Calling your name (Solar Stone chillout version) - Libra
- Disser/Point mentoo B - Singh, Talvin
- Calling (chilled mix) - Solar Stone
- Intracity (Solar Stone 'Solstice' mix) - Z2
- Take my hand (album version) - Dido
- Single - Everything But The Girl
- Touching the void - Banco De Gaia
- Love on a real train - Tangerine Dream
- Love song (Dr Lunatic mix) - Haza, Ofra
- Precious heart (Lush remix) - Tall Paul & INXS
- Deadline (Moonwatcher's dead calm remix) - Dutch Force
- Fall into me - Micro
- Belfast - Orbital
- Sextant (live at XS 1) - Namlook, Pete
- In a landscape - Orbit, William
- Earthwatching - Holroyd, Bob
- Gone (Kruder & Dorfmeister session) - Holmes, David & Sarah Cracknell
- American dream (Tranquilo dawn over New York remix) - Jakatta
Release date: 2001-08-11
Price: £17.99
Review Chilled Out Euphoria: Digitally Mixed By Solar Stone / Various Artists:The term "chill out" has been used intensely to market LPs over the past few years. What it usually indicates is a compilation stuffed full of the downtempo, balearic and leftfield tracks that have been big over the summer. The Euphoria series is a light exception to the rule in that its choice of tracks isn't quite so obvious. Tracks like TallPaul vs INXS "Precious Heart", Chicane's "Overture", Dido's "Take My Hand" and Jakatta's "American Dream" have all appeared on their fair share of compilations over the last few months, but they are joined by more considered choices such as Tangerine Dream's "Love an a Real Train", Talvin Singh's "Disser", Art of Noise's "Moments in Love", Future Sound of London's"Papua New Guinea" and some exclusives from Solar Stone and Push. The album also has the advantage of being mellifluously mixed (digitally, by Solar Stone) so that your relaxed mind state isn't distracted too much by gaps and breaks. Not the most essential listen, but certainly one to get you into the chilled zone without repeating the formula too much. -Paul Sullivan.
Tracks Nympho
- Brainwashing
- My My My
- Nympho
- The Teardrop
- Got Over You
- Hear My Name
- Into Your Eyes
- Come Play With Me
- When The Lights Go Down
- Hot City Nights
- Sugar
- Juicy Juicy
- Jenny
Release date: 2005-07-04
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.94
Review Nympho / Armand Van Helden:Having found mainstream chart success with his anthem "My My My", Armand Van Helden follows it up with Nympho, a full length album on Norman Cook's Southern Fried label. If the aforementioned hit was your introduction to Armand or you only remember him from "You Don't Know Me", the maniacal screeching of Virgin Killer on the opening title track might come as a surprise. In short, Nympho is a rock/dance crossover with the emphasis on dance music that rocks. For the most part each tune consists of a dark, distorted bassline with guitars and angry vocals, such as "Brainwashing" and the fantastically dark (in spite of its childlike rhyming) "Got Over You". There is respite from the aggressive assault in the shape of 2nd single "Hear My Name" and the grin-inducing terrace anthem "When the Lights Go Down"-both exude the same sing-along poppiness as "My My My", also included here. The nearest comparison to the sound of Nympho would be Deep Dish's "Flashdance" although as ever, Armand's production is rougher, more raw and dirtier that any of his peers. A great album for club kids, maybe not crossover enough for rockers, but if you like crunching guitars in your house and don't mind the odd cowbell, this is definitely the album for you. -David Trueman.
Tracks Solaris
- Under The Palms
- Terminus
- Solaris
- Mine To Give
- Halogen
- Junk
- Aura
- Glamourama
- Lost Blue Heaven
- Can't Come Down
- Infinity
Release date: 2000-09-18
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.92
Review Solaris / Photek:It may come as a shock to the purists, but after two albums of pushing abstruse drum & bass to minimalist and epic extremes, the East Anglian producer has thrown a heap of new sounds onto his percussive palate. To some, Solaris is going to sound like a chicken in search of a roost: both "Can't Come Down" and "Mine To Give" are pure 1988 old-school Chicago house. The latter even features that era's legendary vocalist, Robert Owens. "Terminus" and "Junk" pay loose homage to the nu-school breakz template, while "Halogen" and "Lost Blue Heaven" are beautifully poised, damaged electronic torch songs. There's even some drifting ambience too. But what's missing in terms of coherence is more than made up for by the visceral power of Photek's production. Intense, stripped back and wielding more brute force than Leftfield's "Swords", there's a menacing beauty at work here that reinforces Photek's reputation for tingling sonic sculpturing on a grand scale. -Calvin Bush.
Tracks Production
- I Can't Wait
- Disco Science
- Junkie's Prayer
- V.I.(The Last Word She Said Before Leaving)
- Involution (full-length version)
- Naive Song
- Never Young Again
- Paradise (Not For Me) - featuring Madonna
- Definitive Beat
Release date: 2000-05-29
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.89
Review Production / Mirwais:"Disco Science", his toweringly provocative debut single, demonstrated that Parisian producer, Mirwais' disco roots are evident but also distorted and twisted out of all recognition by wild pitch-shifting and taste for acid bassline. Production only emphasises this by taking some of the most popular sounds from late Seventies and early 80s dance floors-Moroder beats, vocoders, analogue synth sounds- and wilfully hammering them into fresh shapes on numbers such as "Naive Song" and "Junkie's Prayer". Mirwais' skills brought him to the attention of Madonna who sequestered them for her album, and returns the favour with this album's centrepiece number, "Paradise Not For Me". This exquisite blend of French monologue and treated English vocal married to swelling synths indicates why Mirwais was seen as the hottest, most chic French electronic producer from an apparently endless line of talent that continues to emanate from the city. Elsewhere Mirwais offers a nod to his compatriots on "I Can't Wait" which matches a pulverising stop start Daft Punk rhythm to buzz saw bleeps and also New York on "Definitive Beat", a juddering breakbeat layered with skidding turntable scratches. A devastatingly original album from a true pioneer. -Mike Pattenden.
Tracks Northern Exposure
- Seaside Atmosphere - Stef & Pako/Frederick
- Tyrantanic - Breeder (1)
- Waters Of Jericho - Head Honcho
- Pure Frictions Groove - Voyager (1)
- Rock Stone - Breeder (1)
- Der Dritte Raum - Polarstern
- Lost Without You - Hanna, Jayn
- Anything You Want You Get It - Delta Lady
- Gamelan - Red Devil
- Micromega - Blue Planet Corporation
- Sexual Movement - Movement Perpetual
- Silence (2) - Koglin, Mike
- Free - Mono Culture
- Mess With Dabul - RR Workshop
- Silence - Delerium
- Morning Glory - Union Jack
- Space Manoeuvres - Stage One
- I Know You Love Me Too - Raven, Chris
- Belfunk - Sasha (1)
- Expand The Room - Light (2)
- Stove Stimulation - Humate
Release date: 1999-02-22
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.45
Review Northern Exposure / Various Artists:
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Tracks Blue Lines [VINYL]
- Hymn Of The Big Wheel
- One Love
- Lately
- Blue Lines
- Unfinished Sympathy
- Five Man Army
- Be Thankful For What You've Got
- Daydreaming
- Safe From Harm
Release date: 1991-04-08
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.47
Review Blue Lines [VINYL] / Massive Attack:The critical and commercial triumphs of Portishead, Tricky and Roni Size have established Bristol as a centre of slow-burning creativity, but it was the staggering impact Massive Attack made with their debut album which first put the West Country town on the musical map and made reluctant superstars of Mushroom, 3-D and Daddy G. Blue Lines provided a blueprint for the sound which would become known as trip-hop, combining the raw soundsystem vibe of the Wild Bunch parties with immaculate production and the distinguished vocal talents of Tricky, Shara Nelson and Horace Andy. From the understated beats and deftly-arranged ensemble rapping of the title track to the smokey paranoia of "Five Man Army" and the unrepeatable melancholic splendour of "Unfinished Sympathy", the album is a modern classic through and through. It won the Mercury Music Prize in 1992 and remains the finest work of a frighteningly talented group. -Ed Potton.
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Pure Chillout, The Magic Dragon, Ministry of Sound Trance Nation 2, Echo Dek, Babylon Rewound, Foxbase Alpha (Extra Track) [Us Import], Dropsonde, 604, Mezzanine: Limited Edition [VINYL], behind the sun, The Rough Guide to Arabesque, Breakdown - the Very Best Euphoric Chillout Mixes Vol.2, The Battleship Potemkin, Come from Heaven, Chilled Out Euphoria: Digitally Mixed By Solar Stone, Nympho, Solaris, Production, Northern Exposure, Blue Lines [VINYL] |
