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artist : glenn underground
album : lounge excursions
year : 2000
genre : house
label : guidance recordings (GDRC603)
website : www.33rpm.com
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ripper : cobd
rls-date : 30.06.2000
encoder : EAC | Fhg Radium
quality : 192kbps|44.1kHz|hq|true stereo
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01 society rules 8:37
02 fly with me 6:35
03 city people 8:11
04 7th and rhodes 7:23
05 head of house 6:39
06 burning the midnight oil 6:12
07 return to zion 6:18
08 funki ghetto 9:04
09 g and s motion 7:27
10 translucent blues 5:41
10 tracks (72:07) | 99MB
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In house music, a genre where single artist albums are often little
more than a collection of club tracks with a few half-assed
attempts at downtempo grooves or drum & bass (or both), Glenn
Underground has always stood out from the crowd.
Underground's now made the all too rare club-to-stereo connection
crystal clear with 'Lounge Excursions.' As the Harlem street scene
photography on the cover suggests, the 10 tracks are less
horizontal lounge muzak, and more of an attempt to sonically
capture the hustle 'n' bustle feel of late '70s uptown New York
with the parameters of four-to-the-floor. Drawing from soul, jazz,
funk, reggae, and disco influences on self-evidently titled tracks
like "7th & Rhodes" and "Return To Zion," Underground gives an
authenticity to his grooves that feels something like a cool
breezer blowing over the Hudson on a scorching summer's day. This
is especially evident when compared to the clumsy approach of most
'70s era-sampling producers.
The real highlights, though, are "G&S Motion" and "Translucent
Blues" - imagine a jamming combo of the JBs and Sly Stone stuck in
a basement studio at 4 a.m. with Derrick Carter on the decks a
reefer getting warm. Nothing here is likely to top club charts of
DJ playlists, but then the music's as far removed from the
glamour-rich sound of Studio 54 as it is from New York's
still-current fascination with re-processing Salsoul hits of
yesteryear. And it' s all the better for it.
URB - Sean Bidder
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