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| + artist ........... Justice |
| + album ............ Hears To The Future |
| + label ............ Hydrogen Dukebox |
| + cat .............. DUKE 070CD |
| + year ............. 2000 |
| + genre ............ Electronic |
| + source ........... CDDA |
| + quality .......... 192kbps / 44,1Khz / Full Stereo |
| + release date ..... 20.10.2004 |
| + size ............. 50,0 MB |
| + link ............. n/a |
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|| tracklist |
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| 01.Two Thousand Moments 05:48 |
| 02.Wack Mc`s 04:49 |
| 03.Cycle II 03:38 |
| 04.Beat Drop 05:34 |
| 05.Faith & Reason 05:51 |
| 06.Monk Rock 01:20 |
| 07.Suburbs 04:56 |
| 08.Wack Mc`s (Instrumental) 04:25 |
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| (t!) total 36:21 min |
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| When jungle pioneer Justice tells us he's heard the future, we |
| ought to pay attention. And on the evidence of Hears to the |
| Future, we are now living in a post-jungle world. Jungle went |
| supernova and the expelled matter has traveled far and wide. |
| Timberland's much-ripped trademark sound is indebted to |
| drum-n-bass, as is speed garage and the twisted, winding sounds of |
| the UK garage underground. |
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| Of course, the evidence of jungle's collapse was always there for |
| all to see: the 746 reissues from Bukem's Logical Progression |
| label, the K-tel compilations. Hydrogen Dukebox even released the |
| Justice career-retrospective The Greatest Hit. The graffiti tag of |
| Hears to the Future on this record's cover screams hip-hop (and in |
| particular Mo'Wax's Headz compilations) rather than the |
| amphetamine or ganja signifiers usually associated with jungle |
| covers. |
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| On the opener, "Two Thousand Seconds," Justice rolls out a |
| standard downtempo hip-hop groove before elevating it with shards |
| of sound so shiny and beautifully metallic they recall Eno's |
| Shutov Assembly. Justice then drops the sound of a lone Bedouin |
| lamenting in song the desert's lack of water and his perpetual |
| wandering. The track has the global reach of Vangelis' Blade |
| Runner soundtrack and could easily accompany a Tyrell Corporation |
| hip-hop slam. |
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| Justice's proclivity for Levantine melodies surfaces again on |
| "Whack MC's." And while his guest rapper, Danoyd, would not |
| challenge Juvenile's or Roots Manuva's originality, Justice |
| saturates the track with a tense, rough rinsin' that's all the |
| more prevalent when the instrumental version ends the EP. |
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| Justice connects with the current fascination for electro (stand |
| up, Sven VΣth and Anthony Rother) on the outstanding "Cycle II" |
| and "Beat Drop." Here, Justice displays his skills by not weakly |
| emulating "Scorpio" or "Clear;" rather, he takes Cybotron's |
| essence and fashions a new style of electro. Of course, these |
| tracks will annoy purists (the hi-hats are more speed garagy than |
| Furious Five), but Justice comes from the future and doesn't dwell |
| in the past. |
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| "Monk Rock" returns to atmospherics to beat down Mix Master Morris |
| at his own chilled head- bobbing game. The monks of the title |
| sound more like devotees of Tricky than Tertullian, but hey, that |
| could be the future of patristic scholarship for all I know! If |
| this exemplary EP has a weakness, it's that Hears to the Future is |
| too short. Its eight tracks are over in less than 40 minutes. |
| Justice is one of the few ex-junglists I want to hear a full disc |
| of. Perhaps he's trying to warn us. Maybe in the future our |
| attention spans are even smaller than today. Or-- horrible |
| thought-- the future itself is all too brief. |
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