Generalisation [Import]

Generalisation [Import]

Track Listings

1. Keeping It Real

2. Devil In Sports Casual

3. Reach Out

4. You Take

5. Ricky 39

6. Stiggs Inn Love

7. Midfielding

8. General Of The Midfield

9. Drunk Country

10. Coatnoise

11. Birthday

Tracks:

Keeping It Real
Devil In Sports Casual
Reach Out
You Take
Ricky 39
Stigs Inn Love
Midfielding
General Of The Midfield
Drunk Country
Coatnoise
Birthday
Devil In Sports Casual (Patboy Slim Remix)

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring One Bonus Track: Devil in Sports Casual (Fatboy Slim Remix).

Customer Reviews:

Skint Boss Chips In.......2000-09-13

Four long years after Brassic Beats Vol.1, Damian "Midfield General" Harris finally comes out with an album. Most people are going to buy this album for DEVIL IN SPORTS CASUAL and/or REACH OUT. The unusual (and refreshing) thing about this album is that no type of song is duplicated. With REACH OUT we get a taste of beautiful soul, DEVIL... is a blistering breakbeat song, STIGS INN LOVE is a classical piece with a quick little beat, and so on, there's even a country song!(of sorts)If you like every or anything SKINT has already put out, especially Indian Ropeman, a major contributor to this album, you'll like it. Enjoy.

Average customer rating:

much better than Fatboy
Big beats that keep on givin'
A little from column A, a little from column B
3.5 Actually,Definitely Better Than Your Money Making Fatboy

Generalisation
Midfield General
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Big Beat | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004UFAZ
Release Date: 2000-07-24

Tracks:

Keeping It Real
Devil in Sports Casual
Reach Out - Linda Lewis, Midfield General
You Take
Ricky 39
Stigs Inn Love
Midfielding
General of the Midfield
Drunk Country
Coatnoise
Birthday

Customer Reviews:

much better than Fatboy.......2004-09-29

It's too bad people want Midfield General to sound like Fatboy Slim, because there is no comparison. Pick up Midfield Genral NOW! Cause it's better.

Big beats that keep on givin'.......2004-09-29

It's not easy being plagued with the generalization that you should sound just like Fatboy Slim. But in 2000, Midfield General's "Generalisation" proved that he can hold his own among the big beat elite. "Generalisation" is a dense collection of funky breakbeats that jumps around several different moods throughout the album. His nocturnal, stylish, hypnotic, trippy, playful and energetic beats will keep you mesmerized for hours on end. I find myself reaching for my Midfield General CD more than any Fatboy Slim CDs I own. It easily holds up in the rankings.

There are plenty of stellar standout tracks here. "Devil in Sports Casual" shows his talented use of samples quite nicely. "Reach Out", one of the best tracks, is an incredibly hypnotic piece, with a lyric that is sure to get stuck in your head - "Singing gets me high". "Stigs Inn Love" is one of the finest examples of building-it-up and tearing-it-down I've ever heard. Reviewing the track listing, there really isn't a bad apple in the bunch. It's a solid, straight forward brand of progressive electronica, that may not show Midfield General's best work ever, but it definitely shows his growing potential. I'm still waiting for his highly anticipated follow-up. Hopefully sooner than later, since it's been 4 years already.

A little from column A, a little from column B.......2000-11-03

To be completely honest, I didn't rate Generalisation that highly when I first got it (and as an avid Skint Records fan, I had to get it...). Perhaps I was expecting it to be too much like the General's classics, tracks with predatory basslines and punchy breaks, like Devil in Sports Casual, Go Off, Worlds and Bergkamp. Anyway, a couple months on, I can honestly say this record has really grown on me. Probably the most diverse record out on Skint to date, it zooms from the awesome Devil in Sports Casual (and that's Steve from Hardknox doing the vocals), to the soulful charm of Reach Out, and then on through the electronic battle weapons of Ricky 39, and the quirky Stigs Inn Love. The comedy rework of Midfielding is rather funny, as is Drunk Country. Rounding it all out is the relaxed, sublime track Birthday, reminiscent of some of the Space Raiders quieter moments. An intelligent album that pushes the borders of electronica and incorporates a helluva lot of styles, which all in all shows just why Damien Harris is the boss of the incomparable Skint label.

3.5 Actually,Definitely Better Than Your Money Making Fatboy.......2000-09-04

Surprise! I am so surprised that I am the first one who actually writes a review on this. This is definitely one of the major releases of Skint this year. Well, he is Damien Harris, one of the biggest names under the Skint label, yeah, I know, that reminds you of that Fatboy. But do you know that Damien is actually the boss of Skint label? Forget about Norman, here is Damien. Really, he is 100 times better than your mediocre Fatboy who is only interested in shaking his bald head. In my opinion, this release, together with Indian Ropeman's 'Elephant Sound' as well as Lo-fi All Stars' 'How To Operate With A Blown Mind' are some of the best releases out of Skint label. Yeah, really! There are more Big Beats than your Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers. I have said this for a million times but i gotta say this once again. Being bestselling doesn't mean it is better, it only means that there is enough media coverage as well as the music is commercialised enough to be consumed by average people. Even people who don't buy much music are saying Fatboy Slim is cool these days, so what do you expect? The album can be classified under Big Beat/Breatbreaks of course, Skint is famous for that kinda music, however it is more soulful. Just listen to the first single 'Reach Out', it sounds...delicious! 'Coatnoise' contains a sample of Elvis Costello is probably going to be the next single, clever, sly and crafty, this is good dance music. The album is a diverse one, you can hear some drunk people playing country music from outer space'Drunk Country', naration a la DJ Food 'Midfielding' as well as techno house anthem of the year 'General of the Midfield'. Everything sounds nice here, however, this record is far from groundbreaking.

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