21st Century Drum+Bass [Box set]

21st Century Drum+Bass [Box set]

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Shrapnel

2. Gasmask - Ed Rush

3. Epox

4. 4 Days - Bad Company

5. Iceberg - Ryme Tyme

6. Champion Sound [Bad Comapny Remix] - Q-Project

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Disc: 2

1. Hide U [Decoder and Substance Mix] - Kosheen

2. Temperament

3. Feelings

4. Hangman - X-Men

5. Detroit Blues - DJ Reality

6. Stealth - Technical Itch

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Disc: 3

1. Poor Man's Deal [Konflict Remix] - State of Play

2. Genetic Engineering - Acetate

3. Sahara - Collective Minds

4. Fingerprints

5. Stolen Documents

6. Boost Dem [Conspiracy Mix] - Kitachi

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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Compilation mixed by drum and bass man of the moment, Decoder. Includes Kosheen, Ed Rush and Optical, Matrix, BreakbeatEra, Usual Susoects, Technical Itch, Dom and Roland, Decoder, DJ Tee Bee, Ram Trilogy and more. Three standard jewel cases housed in a p

Tracks:

Symphony No. 2: 1. Andante moderato
Symphony No. 2: 2. Allegro
Symphony No. 2: 3. Adagio cantabile
Symphony No. 2: 4. Lento maestoso
Symphony No. 2: 5. Allegro molto vivace
The Gong On The Hook And Ladder Or Firemen's Parade On Main Street: Allegro moderato
Tone Roads No. 1: Allegro
'A Set Of Three Short Pieces': Hymn: Largo Cantabile
'Three Outdoor Scenes': Hallowe'en
Central Park In The Dark: Molto adagio
The Unanswered Question: Largo molto sempre

Customer Reviews:

The perfect introduction to Ives........2006-08-04

In brief, this may be the best single album to jump start the novice on Ives -- and a great ride for the already converted among us. The comprehensive reviews in this thread say it all; I won't repeat. Let me add this, though: the earlier, excellent recording on Columbia (SONY) coupled with the 3rd Symphony, has a cut in the 4th movement, which Lenny opens up in this more recent recording. So, if you have the earlier recording this one is still something of a 'must have.' Buy it for that 'alternate' library of special recordings, like the Tatrai set of Bartok Quartets, Furtwangler's Beethoven Symphonies from the war years, Toscanini's recordings of OTELLO and FALSTAFF -- and Benny Goodman live at Carnegie Hall, 1938.

An Answer to the Unanswered Question.......2006-03-14

Often faced with the question from friends who are just beginning a classical music collection and want to try the 'American school' - the question being which of the many Ives recordings is a solid groundwork for understanding and appreciating Ives' importance - this is the recording I recommend. Despite the now gratefully multiple recordings of all of the works on this CD (especially the Symphony No. 2), this collection surveys Charles Ives well.

Leonard Bernstein was a champion for Ives performances both in this country and abroad. This recording shows why. His approach to Ives' work is not only diligent in his preparation of the orchestra, but it also programs a spectrum that allows each of the works to enhance the others. Here the Symphony No. 2 begins the survey, finding within the work the humor and nostalgia that abounds. And as if to recapitulate Ives' thoughts, Bernstein follows with the quirky 'The Gong on the Hook & Ladder or Firemen's Parade on Main Street', the 'Tone Roads No. 1, for chamber orchestra', a perfectly infectious 'A Set of 3 Short Pieces, for string quartet, double bass & piano',
Hallowe'en, for string quartet, piano & optional drum, the luminous 'Central Park in the Dark', and of course ends with the now American iconic 'The Unanswered Question (I & II).'

This recording may be dated in sound, but the performances remain definitive. And as for a fine introduction to both the well-known side of Ives as well as the slightly esoteric aspect of the genius' music, this well curated selection fits the bill. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, March 06

brilliant idiosyncrasies.......2004-05-20

Ives was an uncommon, refined distillate. Much like Wallace Stevens, another Connecticut Yankee insurance specialist thoroughly out of step with his environment, Ives's structural and thematic advances foretold radical new worlds. Many liner notes to recent Ives releases talk about his work as if it were like most other orchestral offerings--in reality, few touch upon how cataclysmic and inventive his realizations were.

Bernstein, conversely, grasps Ives in totality and advances the cause of this frighteningly bold new music, both in practice and in writing at length about these scores and the Protean imagination that engendered them. Bravo, Lenny.

Great Performances Of Ives From Bernstein And the NYPO.......2003-09-02

Towards the end of Leonard Bernstein's career he made several distinguished recordings of 20th Century American classical music for Deutsche Grammophon featuring the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. This splendid recording of Ives's 2nd Symphony, several other orchestra works and chamber pieces is yet another remarkable testament to Leonard Bernstein's empathy and understanding of 20th Century American classical music composed by such distinguished composers as Charles Ives, and, of course, Aaron Copland. No other conducter truly understood 20th Century American music as well as Bernstein. Here he leads the New York Philharmonic in one thrilling performance after another, starting with Ives's 2nd Symphony in a swaggering, convincing interpretation. He follows with a hauntingly beautiful "Central Park in the Dark" and ends with an appropriately brooding "The Unanswered Question"; between the symphony and these orchestral works are sandwiched some fine chamber pieces too. Although these were recorded at live performances, the sound quality is that from a studio. Absolutely a necessary CD for admirers of Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic and anyone interested in 20th Century American classical music.

Uniquely American Ives Recordings.......2002-08-09

This is great American music in the truest sense. I was nurtured on movie soundtracks and scores from the likes of Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin, Alex North and others. As we have lost many of these composers and music that they may have left us through the years, I have been methodically looking at American "Twentieth Century" composers from the "classical" arena to fill that void from that great era. I discovered Charles Ives after reading up on Aaron Copland and his foray into many diverse areas of musical composition. One thing leads to another. Ives' Symphony No. 2 seems to have come up very frequently. It certainly doesn't have the melodic quality of Copland yet it does seem to have roots resulting in American musical motifs very strangely orchestrated resulting in some twisted profoundness. What attracts me is how the music almost seems as if it were composed for film. The technical qualities of this recording are marvelous. Leonard Bernstein's intuitive and vibrant interpretation of this music is effectively felt.

The Americans: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

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Very Good To Memorable Recordings of Bernstein's American Composer Recordings

The Americans: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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ASIN: B0001WGDXU
Release Date: 2004-05-11

Customer Reviews:

Very Good To Memorable Recordings of Bernstein's American Composer Recordings.......2007-07-01

This is yet another superb box set of Bernstein's Deutsche Grammophon recordings, emphasizing his strong affinity and interest in the work of such great American composers like Charles Ives, Aaron Copland and William Schuman. The best recordings are those with The New York Philharmonic of Charles Ives's orchestral works and Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, "Quiet City" suite for horn and strings, and the El Salon de Mexico ballet suite. But I also admire Bernstein's recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic of Gershwin's great classical/jazz orchestral works like "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris", and the recordings of several other Copland scores, most notably, "Appalachian Spring". Like virtually all of the other recordings in Deutsche Grammophon's "Collector's Edition" series of Leonard Bernstein, these were recorded by Deutsche Grammophon in the 1980s, often during live concert performances held in Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, and New York City (Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall). While some may prefer Bernstein's classic recordings of Copland and Ives for CBS Masterworks (now Sony) in the late 1950s and 1960s, these have the benefit of being digital recordings made by Deutsche Grammophon's then state-0f-the-art recording processes. Without question, anyone who is a fan of Copland's, Gershwin's or Ives' scores and of Leonard Bernstein will surely cherish this fine 6 CD box set.

Shostakovich: Symphony No 14, etc / Varady, Fischer-Dieskau, Wenkel; Haitink

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A Richly Nuanced Performance of Shostakovich's Symphony of Death
Please note: This isn't in Russian
Shostakovich And Matters Of Death
Utterly spiritual!
Surprisingly, Perhaps, a Dimly-Burning Wick of Hope

Shostakovich: Symphony No 14, etc / Varady, Fischer-Dieskau, Wenkel; Haitink
Dmitri Shostakovich , Bernard Haitink , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Julia Varady , Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam , and Ortrun Wenkel
Manufacturer: Decca
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ASIN: B00000IP3J
Release Date: 2000-08-08

Tracks:

Symphony No.14, Op.135: De profundis
Symphony No.14, Op.135: Malaguena
Symphony No.14, Op.135: Loreley
Symphony No.14, Op.135: Le Suicide
Symphony No.14, Op.135: Les Attentives I
Symphony No.14, Op.135: Les Attentives II
Symphony No.14, Op.135: A la Sante
Symphony No.14, Op.135: Reponse des cosaques zaparogues...
Symphony No.14, Op.135: O Delvig, Delvig!
Symphony No.14, Op.135: Der Tod des Dichters
Symphony No.14, Op.135: Schluss-Stuck
6 Poems Of Marina Tsvetaeva, Op.143a: My Poems
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6 Poems Of Marina Tsvetaeva, Op.143a: Hamlet's Dialogue With His Conscience
6 Poems Of Marina Tsvetaeva, Op.143a: The Poet And The Tsar
6 Poems Of Marina Tsvetaeva, Op.143a: No, The Drum Beat
6 Poems Of Marina Tsvetaeva, Op.143a: To Anna Akhmatova

Customer Reviews:

A Richly Nuanced Performance of Shostakovich's Symphony of Death.......2006-02-04

Despite the fact that there are multiple recordings of Shostakovich's deeply moving Symphony No. 14, this rather old but remastered recording is unique in the quality of performance: Bernard Haitink conducts his Concertgebouw Orchestra and elected to use non-Slavic singers Julia Varady and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who in turn sing the poems in their original languages rather than the Russian translations used in the original premiere. The effect is staggeringly beautiful and if one must choose a single recording of this symphony, this would be the one that captures the essence of Shostakovich's vision.

Written in 1969 while ill, Shostakovich was naturally achingly concerned about his impending death and in response to his admiration for Moussorgsky's 'Songs and Dances of Death' he wished to make his musical statement about the end of life. 'They wanted the finale to be comforting, to say that death is only the beginning. But it's not a beginning, it's the real end, there will be nothing afterwards, nothing.' And with this grim concept he selected eleven poems by a varied group of poets who mostly died young: Garcia Lorca, Guillaume Appollinaire, Wilhelm Kuchelberger, and Rainer Maria Rilke. The poems are sung by soprano and baritone solo and in duet, and the beauty of Varady and Fischer-Dieskau intoning the words in Spanish, French, Russian, and German somehow gives the poetry more immediacy.

The orchestration is for twenty-one performers: two percussionist, celesta, and eighteen strings. The writing is transparent and delicate with some of the most gorgeous sectional ensemble playing (particularly for cellos and double bass) Shostakovich ever wrote. Haitink serves the score well. As an additional bonus on this CD, Haitink conducts the `Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva' beautifully sung by Ortrun Wenkel. For this reviewer the experience of hearing this chamber work that speaks so profoundly about death in the wonder of the acoustic of Disney Hall in Los Angeles makes this symphony emphatically one of Shostakovich's finest works. Esa-Pekka Salonen with the LA Philharmonic approached the work with such humanity and utter clarity of performance, using as soloists Matthias Goerne and brilliant young Russian dramatic soprano Tatiana Pavlovskaya to breathe meaning and incredible atmosphere that the effect was one of those once in a lifetime experiences. If only THAT performance could be added to the recorded repertoire.... Highly recommended. Grady Harp, February 06

Please note: This isn't in Russian.......2005-09-29

I haven't researched the various versions of the Shostakovich 14th, but my other CD under Bernstein is sung entirely in Russian, even though the poems come from other languages as well. I believe that's the standard way, but here Haitink's singers adapt to French, Spanish, etc. as these languages come up. This gives the original poets their native voices back, which i like. It also eliminates one layer of Slavic lugubriousness, which frankly can become quite oppressive when the texts are performed entirely in Russian.

Shostakovich And Matters Of Death.......2005-08-06

Like Gustav Mahler before him, Dmitri Shostakovich, towards the end of his life, began concerning himself with matters of death in his works. Here was a composer who had seen the horrors of two world wars, seen his artistic ambitions constricted by the demands of Joseph Stalin, and seen his older contemporary Sergei Prokofiev suffer the tortures of the damned under Stalin's reign of terror, and yet Shostakovich had survived and succeeded, largely thanks to sage champions on this side of the Iron Curtain such as Bernstein, Stokowski, and Ormandy.

But in his own ironic way, by the 1960s, he was dealing with Death itself, as can be gauged from his Fourteenth Symphony, a work in eleven parts that utilizes texts from writers such as Federico Garcia Lorca, Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, and Rainer Maria Rilke. The symphony, which requires soprano, bass, percussion, and string orchestra, was composed by Shostakovich in 1969 and premiered by his fellow composer Benjamin Britten in England in 1970. It remains thoroughly modern, but its subject is timeless. The same is true for the song cycle "6 Poems Of Marina Tsvetaeva", which he first scored for contralto and piano in 1973 and orchestrating them the following year, one year before he passed away.

Featuring Julia Varady, Ortrun Wenkel, and the legendary Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau, this recording is equally stunning for the conducting of the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam by its longtime music director Bernard Haitink. Though these works were recorded a quarter century ago as part of Haitink's complete survey of Shostakovich's symphonies (a set that also included the London Philharmonic), the recording has aged fantastically well, and the three-prong combination of vocalists, orchestra, and conductor are superb in bringing Shotakovich's visions to the forefront, though they don't skip over the ever-present irony that was a trademark of the composer. A must-have for anyone with a taste for modern music in general, and Shostakovich in particular.

Utterly spiritual!.......2005-07-26

Mondelli and kph37's reviews are really into the spirit of the work, and I have no complaints with them at all.

There are political considerations on two levels. Let me dispose of the first quickly, though I don't mean to do so, because Haitink is truly one of the great conductors of the 20th century. But let's face it that he got caught up in the conductor contest of the Post-Reiner era, when recording companies were elevating Their Man over the others in a marketing joust. Poor Bernard was, in my opinion, a victim in this competition. He was the one who saw the value in letting us hear the inner parts, apart from the raging brass of Solti and colorful antics of Bernstein. Mercy!

As for Fidi's shortness of breath or trailing line, well, I think this was the reason for staging him in the work. Imagine, by contrast, bringing in, say, the great Erich Kunz. The bass-baritone portions of this work are those of resignation, not of confidence. For the sake of the poetry, Fidi was perfect. He is not supposed to be the bombast vocalist. His is the voice of sad resignation.

Now, the other political level, that of the composer. Shostakovich lived under Stalin's thumb, to an extent that no composer today can imagine. Some understanding of history is in order. Dmitri was in a life and death struggle with the homicidal maniac controlling the former Soviet Union. Some understanding of art requires an understanding of history. And, therefore, of empathy with Dmitri.

All told, this is a sublime recording. In future generations, the work will be reviewed only from the technical point of view. It takes musicians who lived through that ghastly horror of the German invasion of Russia, of one racist terrorist regime invading another.

This is a very perturbing work. Who could have done it better than those who lived through it?

Then, Ortrum Wenkel's performance of the Tsvetaeva songs should be given more attention. Yes, they are pretty literal readings. But aren't the works written the same dead pan way? These are hardly folksongs in the sense of Mahler or Britten, but introspective pieces. I really like her work here.

Buy this CD it while it lasts.

Surprisingly, Perhaps, a Dimly-Burning Wick of Hope.......2002-01-24

This is a clean and exciting performance of the fourteenth symphony; I still remember the chills I felt, hearing it the first time some seventeen years ago. This is the sort of piece which only Edward Gorey would like to listen to on a daily basis, but it is an exquisitely artistic outpouring of grief, rage, despair ... yet not, I think, of absolute resignation.

Most of the texts have to do with death, and almost none of the texts regards death in any light other than hopeless, or at the least sardonic. But there is one note something discordant to the otherwise unremitting gloom.

"O Delvig, Delvig!" always struck me as the heart of the fourteenth symphony, all the more for its warm, passionate cello choir, standing in stark contrast to the "flint-faced" sardonicism ("Malagueña," "Les Attentives I & II," "Réponse des cosaques zaporogues") and the externally-dramatic bleakness ("Lorelei," "À la Santé," and the bookends "De Profundis" and "Der Tod des Dichters") of most of the rest of the symphony.

And here at what, musically, I have always felt to be the quiet, self-effacing heart of the piece, we find a text which differs, not sharply perhaps, but significantly, from the unrelieved tone of despair-at-darkness of all the rest of the texts, which (with epochal significance) are more recent ... the sharp-relieved word-paintings of Garcia Lorca, the urbane rationalism and withering wit of Appolinaire. Here, in the company of some of the world's most highly-regarded poets (to add Rilke) we find a highly personal dedicatory poem, written by the unknown-outside-Russia Küchelbecker.

Baron Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798-1831) and Wilhelm Karlovich Küchelbecker (1797-1846) were both friends of Pushkin's, from their school days at the Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo (where there still stands a magnificent palace with extensive grounds). All three were poets, men of education and refinement. Delvig was packed off to Siberia, and executed as a revolutionary.

O Delvig, Delvig! What reward is there
for noble deeds and verse?
Where and what is the joy in talent
amongst villains and fools?
In Juvenal's austere hand
the dreaded lash whistles at the villains
and wipes the color from their cheeks.
The power of the tyrants trembled

O Delvig, Delvig, what is persecution?
Immortality is the reward
both of valiant, inspired deeds
and of sweet singing!
Thus our union will not die,
proud, joyful and free!
In happiness and grief, firm is the union
of lovers of the eternal Muse!

The poem fits into Shostakovich's work with conveniently thorough aptness. The two obscurer poets were friends of Pushkin's, himself not only the Great Man of Russian letters, but an artist who found that his works needed to pass a censor. Delvig was a poet who got caught in the wheels of politics, and paid with his life.

Yet the message of the poem is not gloom alone; it is not simply a weeping at the injustices of society against Art and the Individual. It is an assurance that noble deeds and sweet singing are rewarded with immortality, and that the artistic bond of the friends will never die, either. The poem is actually a positive response to external grief.

For all the unrelenting gloom of the rest of the symphony, for all that Shostakovich is quoted as saying, "Death is it, after death, there is nothing" ... for all this, I don't believe that Shostakovich could have LIVED like that ... and certainly here in the fourteenth symphony, he did not quite write like that. This text, its musical treatment, and its place in the shape of the symphony, all this together is the dimly burning wick which would not be blown out.

And too, the one text set in the symphony which has nothing in particular to do with death ("Réponse des cosaques zaporogues") is about rage at, and contempt for, despots, expressed by a fiercely proud, free people. This reminds me that another piece of Shostakovich's which I have long meant to investigate is "The Execution of Stepan Razin," a cossack folk-hero who is a symbol of the spiritual power of free resistance against an oppressor.

And the ending of the fourteenth symphony is not the bleak, still resignation of "De Profundis/Der Tod des Dichters" ... but an ironic clip-clop "Conclusion"... and the closing musical gesture is a clipped, tutti, raging in the strings.

Certainly a great deal of his experience would teach Shostakovich despair, and it would have taken an extraordinarily strong and determined character to resist learning so.

Yet in this work, I see more than just the cynicism. You can be taught to say things, taught even to feel things as though they are practically inside you, and a lot of the life you step through can be about those things ... and yet, down underneath all the accreted layers, you may feel that, really, it isn't, cannot be, true.

Like Martin Luther King's "there cannot be great disappointment where there is not great love" ... I wonder if the sharpness, the bitterness, is a refusal to accept. At any rate, I do not see it as an idea he has come to peace with ... at least, not in the fourteenth symphony.

Sitting on My Funk Nusoul & Neo R&B from Amsterdam
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Sitting on My Funk Nusoul & Neo R&B from Amsterdam

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Release Date: 2002-12-10

21st Century Drum+Bass, Vol. 3
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21st Century Drum+Bass, Vol. 3
Various Artists
Manufacturer: React
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ASIN: B00009KS8H
Release Date: 2003-07-22

Tracks:

Pied Piper - Futurebound
Hallmark - Total Science
Goodfoot - Ed Rush
Bermuda - Fierce
Skittles - Ram Trilogy
Don't Stop [Fierce & Matrix Remix] - Red One
Squash [Bad Company Remix] - Total Science
Rusty Sheriff's Badge - Twisted Individual
Carrier - Fierce
Pitch Switch - Red One
Dreamer - Aftermath
24:11 - The Usual Suspects
Cuban Links - DJ Clipz

Tracks:

Neon Skyline - Cyantific
Chicken in a Basket - Total Science
Gimme Your Love - Dice
Halo - Insiders
Discotech - Zen
Rainbow Kiss - Total Science
One Crazy Diva - E-Z Rollers
Dum, Dum - Davide Carbone, MC Jakes
Low Key - Militia
Rehab - Ed Rush
Pacman [Ram Trilogy Mix] - Ed Rush
Switch - Fresh
Calling - Technical Itch
Critical Switch - MC Jakes, Technical Itch

Tracks:

Main Ingredient - London Elektricity
Do Anything [Calibre Remix] - Aquasky
8 Ball - Total Science
Sonic Soul - Junior Cartel
Electrozan - Ill Logic
Far Away [Tara's Vox] - Ju-Ju
It's Not Over [Influx UK's Dig Deeper Mix] - Alison Crockett, Allison Crockett, Landslide
Latin Thing - Danny C, Twisted Anger
Good Vibes - Marnel Sales "DJ Marnel" Mafra
Time Out - Lynx
Blow Your Mind! - Aquasky
Dirty Habits - Holdtight
Back to Love - E-Z Rollers
Riverside - Beta 2, Calibre, Zero Tolerance

Album Description

React presents the latest in their value packed 21st Century series. Behold: 3 CD's of up front music at an unbeatable price!

21st Century Drum & Bass 3 is the third in a successful series of drum & bass compilations which have already seen the likes of Decoder (of Kosheen fame) and Cause 4 Concern step up to the decks and smash it up. This time the main mix is from Red One - label manager at the infamous Ram Records, producer of anthems such as the seminal `Strangled Duck', and the man having the heavyweight credit of having taught Andy C mixing basics, and giving him his first ever booking!

Stepping up again for CDs 2 and 3 are the Heads of Industry aka Chris Industry and Killa B; most known for running the Industry label these are two up and coming DJ's who've lit up dancefloors around the world for the likes of Drum & Bass Arena, Logical Progression and Hospitality. .

This triple pack features a number of big tracks from all angles of the drum and bass spectrum including UK top 40 hits `Back To Love' and `Pac-Man Remix'; as well as massive underground smashers such as `Goodfoot' from the new Ed Rush & Optical album, the massive forthcoming Ram single `Skittles', and `Pied Piper' which is touted to be a massive track for Dillinja's Valve imprint. With roughly a third of the tracks on this compilation as yet unreleased, this is a seriously upfront compilation and is a must for any drum & bass fan!

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The third in a successful series of drum & bass compilations, featuring Total Science, Ed Rush, Danny C, Red One and more. Three slimline jewel cases housed in a slipcase. React. 2003.

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Huge Talent Assembled
Progressive Drum & Bass Experimentation....

Mercury

Manufacturer: No U Turn/ Mango + Sweet Rice
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ASIN: B000067A60
Release Date: 2002-02-02

Tracks:

Piano Intro
Mercury
Monkey on Rice
I love You, I Strangle You
73 (remix)
U Chronic Me
Kangaroo baby
Don't Speak
Watch Radio
Farewell

Album Description

Human-machine fusion for the 21st century. Emerging label Mango + Sweet Rice brings you Mercury, the first album collaboration by The Program and Coppe'.

Customer Reviews:

Huge Talent Assembled.......2004-09-10

I came across this artist and album because of Kris "Thrash" Weston ex-engineer for the Orb. He produced Felt Mountain by Goldrapp as well as a number of groups in the past 15 years including Fortran 5 and Blue Pearl. She is a great artist, cute, intelligent, and complety nuts. Thats what its all about. Good for any season, but this is my Fall CD to remember.

Progressive Drum & Bass Experimentation...........2002-11-14

....with the splendid vocal delivery and artistry of Coppe. This is probably her most energized album, full of heady beats and unusual background ambience; from Satie-esque piano interludes to full-fledged hyper-beated groove fests. This album deserves the attention of all connesseurs of electronic musical collaborations in dreamtime and vaporspace. Take a deep breath and allow the Coppe-vibes to wash all over your body. An electro-erotic experience for all willing and adventurous listeners.

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21st Century Drum N Bass

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ASIN: B000A28UBO
Release Date: 2002-10-08

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straight ahead at full speed, no u-turn!
mass of emotions
mass of emotions

21st Century Drum+Bass
Various Artists
Manufacturer: React
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ASIN: B00004TRG4
Release Date: 2000-08-01

Tracks:

Shrapnel
Gasmask - Ed Rush
Epox - M Moore
4 Days - Bad Company
Iceberg - Jessica Phillips, Ryme Tyme
Champion Sound [Bad Comapny Remix] - Q-Project
Reborn - Technical Itch
Vision - Richard Poole
Hord 39 - Decoder
System Error - Ram Trilogy
Whiplash [Lemon D. Remix] - Future Cut

Tracks:

Hide U [Decoder and Substance Mix] - Kosheen
Temperament
Feelings - Marcia Lewis
Hangman - X-Men
Detroit Blues - DJ Reality
Stealth - Technical Itch
Nimrod - Ill Figure
Nine - Bad Company
Tag - Decoder
Raise It Up [DJ Die Mix] - Kitachi
Can't Punish Me - Dom & Roland,

Tracks:

Poor Man's Deal [Konflict Remix] - State of Play
Genetic Engineering - Acetate
Sahara - Collective Minds
Fingerprints - Elizabeth O'Neill, Elizabeth O'Neill
Stolen Documents - Sarah Pfisterer
Boost Dem [Conspiracy Mix] - Kitachi
Airgun - De Leamy
Exposure [Nasty Edit] - Elizabeth O'Neill
Spacewalk - DJ Rafy, Ill Logic
Growler - Adrienne McEwan
Ultra Obscene [Edit] - Breakbeat Era

Album Description

Compilation mixed by drum and bass man of the moment, Decoder. Includes Kosheen, Ed Rush and Optical, Matrix, BreakbeatEra, Usual Susoects, Technical Itch, Dom and Roland, Decoder, DJ Tee Bee, Ram Trilogy and more. Three standard jewel cases housed in a p

Album Details

Drum 'n Bass Triple CD Box Set. Compiled and Mixed by Drum 'n Bass Man of the Moment Decoder. Includes Remix of Q Project's 'champion Sound', Ed Rush and Optical's 'gas Mask', Dom and Roland's 'can't Punish Me', plus Tracks by Roni Size and Breakbeat Era, etc.

Customer Reviews:

straight ahead at full speed, no u-turn!.......2001-04-10

dark metallic technical loops from the usual suspects (RAM Trilogy, Ed Rush & Optical, Dom & Roland, and yes... the usual suspects)

rinses out proper feels like your heart becoming arrythmic

state of the art dnb technology, priced to move

mass of emotions.......2001-03-29

From start to finish, this album is filled with emotion from talented artists from all over the world, including ed rush and optical, matrix and technical itch. Starting with a very deep mood in the first few songs and gradually progressing to some of the most funky beats you will ever hear, that are sure to have you up on your feet and dancing!

mass of emotions.......2001-03-29

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21st Century Drum+Bass, Vol. 2
Various Artists
Manufacturer: React
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00006GXG6
Release Date: 2002-09-19

Tracks:

Possession [Kemal and Rob Data Remix] - Faith & Chaos
Dementia - Sinthetix
Peepshow - Cause4Concern
Electro Melody - Ram Trilogy
Let It Move You - Kemal
Moongerm - Cause4Concern
Cannibal Run - Optical, Ed Rush, Ryme Tyme
Squash - Total Science
Don't Stop - Red One
Truth - Universal Project
White Widow [Future Cut+Kontrol Black Widow Remix] - The Accidental Heroes
Out of Control - The Spirit

Tracks:

Into Music - Carlito, Carlito, DJ Addiction
Make It Tonight - High Contrast
Swing Time - Mist:i:cal
Get It On
Spaced Invader - Hatiras, J Majik
Fire and Water - Calibre
Eldorado - Davide Carbone, Dominique Woolf
Yvon Is On - Total Science
Dogs on the Moon - Bad Company
I Like to Get It On - John B.
Hydrophonics - The Accidental Heroes
Spacehopper - Bad Company
Deep Gash - Twisted Individual

Tracks:

Sudden Urges - Flying Fish
Changes [Calibre Remix] - Danny Byrd,
It's Not Over
We Can Make It - Fellowship
Nice Time - Ju-Ju
Love Is Not a Game - Kathy Brown, J Majik
So Sweet - Influx Datum
Two Faced - TeeBee
Sunday Morning - Mathematics
Global Love [Calibre Remix] - High Contrast
Back for More - Influx Datum
Airlift [Mathematics 'Lifted' Remix] - Chris Su

Album Description

Triple CD pack mixed by Cause 4 Concern, Chris Industry & Killa B. Artists include Accidental Heroes, Kemal, Dylan, Universal Project, Ed Rush & Optical, Calibre, High Contrast, J Majik, John B and more. 3 slimline jewel cases in a slipcase. 37 tracks. Re

Album Details

Drum & Bass: 3CDs