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Five hundred plates has Josh Davies, the man behind the alias, allegedly processed on this CD, is to say: This CD Samples hide from more than five hundred (in figures: 500) plates, and for precisely this tinkering DJ Shadow's music, and Although only even composed is nothing to these songs, if I may say so.
Of course, still have selbige compositions, just not consisting of specially composed melodies, but precisely from small scraps of past musical days, the sixties can be heard as quite clearly, including in "Six Days", or even the early days of hip-hop so in "walkie talkie". Actually, you can hear quite a lot anyway, roughly speaking, and so really can describe this music hardly not categorize a fortiori, here it whimpers, there drown out the bell, here you can hear Miami Vice Compliant squeaky tires and there again and whispered words umherschwirrende shreds of sound from the Funk / Soul era. Times bleak times not. A fairly insane conglomerate So, and the music nerds out there determined to bite the teeth still made on the question of whether DJ Shadows Music is trip-hop or hip hop now.
But as an uncertain blend these two styles could be described to experimentally for hip-hop, for trip-hop to hip-hoppig, I'd say worth listening to but everything from the gloomy drifting "Fixed Income" or the elegiac and related pieces "mongrel ..." and "... Meets His Maker", sampled piano sounds meet here on the guitar while the beat is concise and catchy in the background, but never niederwalzt the rest.
Every now and then it's all too monotonous something, even if many of the songs are constantly rising in terms of intensity and density, you still get the feeling that you miss peaked narrowly, and that's really a shame because is in songs like the above-mentioned a lot of potential. However, this should remain the only minus point, otherwise a wonderful CD for warm summer nights on the bike on the way home from the celebration ...