mars Posted October 8, 2001 Share Posted October 8, 2001 Snug As A Bug - Imitate People Artist: Snug As A Bug Title: Imitate People Label: Hadshot Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. Couple Of These 02. Flat Freddy 03. Free Haze 04. Imitate People 05. Piphonic 06. Beware Of The Baboons 07. Second Level 08. Fools On Fancy Dress 09. Big Block (Rmx) 10. Smuggling Beat Review: Fools on Fancy Dress is a dark piece of music, fast and industrial. the bassline is very good and some voices seems to cross the music sometimes. There are touches of psychedelia thru very dark sounds. the breaks are in the good place. I think this is intelligent minimal psy. Beware of the Baboons attacks very hard from the begining. It sounds like some Auricular stuff. It's linear in the rhythmic but the rest changes a lot and tends to evolve in some scary sound association. Ouargh it doesn't let you take a breath until the middle of the track. What strange sounds they use! Big Block Remix looks like some track of Authentik...like a run in a thriller. Then it becomes more basic with a great play on bassline and drums. then it becomes more psychedelic with two more layers of plastic notes and drums. Yet it's very basic and should be played in the middle of the night. Second Level is very linear, still full of industrial sounds...quite jumpy but may be boring at the end. Couple of these is fast and full of bass. I guess people would dance on this one with energy. Yet it has little stops and additions of dark sounds along the track. After a big break it restarts aggressively and one more line of bass gives more depth to the track along with small sounds that seem happy compared to the rest. There is a really beautiful play with the basslines near the end. Wonderful track. Free Haze gives you the feeling you are in a medic laboratory in an asylum beacause the sounds are weird. After the intro, a layer of growly dark sounds and a layer with a calm smooth melody is added to the rhythm. After a break, it becomes more mental, very fast bassline, indus sounds...at the end its really spooky, but not noisy. Perfect music for an horror movie! Piphonic uses the same receipe as before. The rhythmic rolls a lot, but the sounds seem to give it a funky touch. A few notes and the reverb are well used to give more depth. After the middle of the track it's more aggressive but the content remains the same. I wonder how they did the ghost-voices... Smuggling Beat is very minimal, with a big beat and terror sounds again. Some little plastic notes take place progressively and your atention is caught by a big snare. It is really very industrial but the rhythmic makes it very groovy. too bad it becomes a bit rough and boring near the end. Overall don't forget your strait-jacket before listening to that album. It's a very good one. I'm not a minimal expert but i'd give it at least 8/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dandoo Forest Posted October 8, 2001 Share Posted October 8, 2001 very nice album but i expected for a bit more than that Boom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest YONI F Posted October 10, 2001 Share Posted October 10, 2001 GREAT!!!!!!! 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nois Posted October 23, 2001 Share Posted October 23, 2001 I am quite dissapionted with this... The album is good, with no bad track, but after the tracks on Liquid Levels and Flowin I expected something more inventive - the old tracks were simply brilliant... But it still is a floorshakin' thing and is worth playing. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vernon sullivan Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 not that great, there is alot of better music in this style available. some nice tracks (fools on fancy dress and couple of these especially) but overall the sounds are all pretty weak compared to the stomping sounds of 3.turn/authentik and others, and rythmically there's nothing to rave about. still not bad, but as was mentioned above not as good as other stuff from these guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJ_MinD_BloW[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 I realy love this Album , very nice to lisson to from Start to end. but its realy odd that i got 3-4 CD that's not reviewed yet. Like the compil : Stereoide , and Set:01(Iboga Records owns) And 2 albums Zerotonine - Cygnus Loops(RoXXer Album , realy nice bassline, but u need big speakers to play it, it release the power on this CD. and Cubica(only 4 tracks but i got it cheep) a little slow but very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted November 23, 2001 Share Posted November 23, 2001 Not as solid as their singles. It's full-on stomping madness, good for filler but nothing new here. 6.5/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setsuko Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 agree xith Freak51... nothing new here but still very good... Piphonic is my favourite. It's goos for the dancefloor. If you're looking for smooth and pumping psychedelic grooves, hen you should try this one... 7,5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SjÖgGe Posted December 12, 2001 Share Posted December 12, 2001 well, here we have a good danceable album, i realy like this kind of swingy stuff,but the singles they have released is much better then the album, but anyway it worked forrrr me at the dancefloor, best tracks is ,1,2,3,4 and 8 ... 6/10 from sweden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spazmo Posted December 17, 2001 Share Posted December 17, 2001 SHIT...this album realy blew my mind right in to space... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MK Posted January 20, 2002 Share Posted January 20, 2002 Excellent release that is being played around the world - if u have been to a party in the last 6 months u have heard these trax. These r block rockin' beats in the French Mafia style; psychedelic sounds and passages over layered reverbed beats. Great review Mars - the only place i differ with u is that i dont find it boring towards the end. Viva La France - 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suck my dick or else i take ur v Posted January 28, 2002 Share Posted January 28, 2002 just take a couple of these and u can do a good album like this on... i like this album alot its wicked and crazzzy just as we want it to be, but in the end of the cd its getting cheesy in the beginning its hard and intensiv.. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syre Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 "If you pop a couple of these in your mouth, you ain't gonna remember dick". :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Smarthowie Posted October 16, 2002 Share Posted October 16, 2002 Flat Freddy is the best track - in my opinion. But the whole album is not so good as I expected! Not too many of the stomping-madness songs... tOO bad! pEacE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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