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artist ■■ neven
release ■■ heads or tails
year ■■ 1997
genre ■■ tribal
label ■■ exit recor
catalogue ■■ xt9706
website ■■ www.exitrecor.com
date ■■ 21-jan-2003
quality ■■ 192kbps/44,1khz
source ■■ compact disc
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01 heads or tail 4:50
02 early scythe (roll the dice rap) (vocals by melchissedec) 4:58
03 early scythe (peetoofee remix) (remix by wendigo) 4:35
04 rΘseau urbain (live eindhoven 1996) 5:07
05 shriek! 1:16
playtime ■■ 00h 20m 46s
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i discovered this act during the lille, france 'le nord digital'
electronic music festival back in 1996, and it's truly on stage
that the power of neven's peculiar blend of jazz, dub, hiphop,
triphop, drum'n'bass, bigbeats and house can be fully felt:
imagine a stage in a smoked out club, with half a dozen musicians
in a row, banging hypnotic trance-inducing rhythms and horns mixed
into 303's and live sequences, the crowd moving like manics,
sucked into their minds.
neven was one of the first acts to put together a succesfull
combination of technology and real instruments, and a brilliant
stage show based on improvisation.
look out for the other rips released today.
compiled from various sources:
"three members from brussels and one afro-antwerper around a
post-techno hip-hop mix, together with horns and other acoustic
instruments, these are the rich paradoxes that the neven group
breeds: peter clasen, musical engine of the band, his brother
johan on horns, toon derison and melki zedec, who's amplified
lyrics draw from cartoons...
an original encounter of technology, often too cold techno (but
not here), with the warmth of acoustic sounds, in an improvised
mode borrowed from jazz.
it has rhythm yet remains destabilizing; it's for the mind yet it
has a playful attitude. having multiple influence drawing from an
already remote near past of electronic music (one can guess meat
beat manifesto or art of noise), funk (prince), jazz and the most
current trends in house and drum'n'bass, blending technology and
real instruments together, this belgian acts miraculously achieves
an alchemy that can surprise the unaware, and please the
hard-boiled adventurous listener."
discography:
http://users.skynet.be/sky51398/neven_discography.htm
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