Empty vessel 6/10 This was a big disappointment for me. Its predecessor, Compassion, was one of the high points in sample-based electronica in the last five years. On‘The Vessell’, Dan Berridge enlists a male vocal foil in Richard Palmer –a cross between the lead singers of the Aloof and Placebo (to listen to,not to look [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Instrumental hip hop'
The Vessel – Broadway Project
April 23rd, 2004 · No Comments · Electronica, Instrumental hip hop, Music, post-rock
Tags:melancholica·post-rock·Psychedelia·Sampledelica
Broadway Project – Compassion
March 19th, 2004 · No Comments · Electronica, Instrumental hip hop, Music, Trip hop
Sampledelica 9/10 This is unequivocably one of the best albums from the dance/electronica left-field in the last five years and rival to DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing as the high-point in sample-based instrumental music. Remarkably lush and always greater than a sum of its parts, Dan Berridge developes an astonishing melting pot of sound: broken, jazzy drum [...]
Tags:Electronica·Instrumental hip hop·Sampledelica·Trip hop
Nostalgia 77 – Songs for my funeral
March 12th, 2004 · No Comments · Electronica, Instrumental hip hop, Music, Trip hop
Jazz Fug 7/10 In ‘Songs for my funeral’ Nostalgia 77 has produced a brooding, claustrophobic – if sometimes derivative – debut. To tick a few boxes, this echoes some of DJ Shadow’s sparser material, a more-reflective RJD2, ‘Meiso’-period DJ Krush, a less-lush Broadway Project, DJ Cam, Bonobo and latter-day Four Tet – to name a [...]