s w e e t b e a t s
december.04.2001 - #815
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artist : Paul Haslinger
album : Score
year : 1999
label : RGB Records
genre : Lo-Fi
url : www.haslinger.com
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Accidental Measures In Cool 04:57
02.The Infinite Jest 03:51
03.When Worlds Collide 04:56
04.The Real Question (Is) 03:48
05.Fantastic Voyage 07:29
06.Magheda 05:26
07.Inbetween Nowhere 03:06
08.Life, Lounge and Lesser Evils 05:30
09.The Station 03:59
10.Hardboiled Wonderland 04:25
11.War In The Heart Of Eden 06:00
12.New India 03:51
12 tracks | 57:18 mins | 82,6 MB
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Paul Haslinger was a member of Tangerine Dream in the mid-1980s, but
while that German synth band cranks along like an alien Edsel that
doesn't realize its time has gone, Haslinger has been building a
catalog of cutting-edge music that will take us into the next
millennium. Following on the heels of his 1997 ethno-techno blowout,
World Without Rules, Haslinger steps into a space-age bachelor
aesthetic. On "Accidental Measures of Cool" he mixes live
performances from singer-songwriter Juliana Raye's moaning voice and
Bumi Fian's muted trumpet with a snarling electronic groove and dub
bass line to create a techno-noir landscape. Then he uses Indian
chanting, not for the ethnicity of it all, but just for the pure
sonic joy as the chant calls out across what sounds like a klezmer
band on acid. Juliana Raye returns on "When Worlds Collide", coolly
intoning her surreal lyric cut-ups in this electronic ballad. Taiko
drummers, talking table players, snakey jazz rhythms, and electronic
abstractions swirl in a giddy head dance on Score. "Fantastic Voyage"
reaches almost symphonic dimensions, in a loungey sort of way. Only
once does Haslinger succumb to ethno-kitsch, that's on "Magheda" with
what sounds like a Native American chant sampled over an electronica
groove a la Deep Forest. Paul Haslinger not only challenges his space
space-music origins, but ups the ante for electronica with music you
might hear in a cyber-lounge someday around 2010. --John Diliberto
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