Release : Ohm Square - Taking Shape
Artist : Ohm Square
Album : Taking Shape
Genre : Lo-Fi
Source : CDDA
Label : Mole Listening Pearls
URL : http://www.mole.de
Date : 06-03-2009
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 199kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 13
Time : 56:56 min
Size : 81.68 MB
1 Monomania 4:34
2 No Shame No Gain 6:30
3 Sex Dot Com 4:08
4 Burcak 3:25
5 Humble Town 4:38
6 Phantom Power 4:27
7 Broken Clocks 3:34
8 Indolent 4:46
9 A Tic's Tacties 3:56
10 Digital red 3:52
11 Animated 4:23
12 Acid Sparrows 5:00
13 50 Heller Song 3:43
Mole Listening Pearls presents the next big album from Czech electropop combo
Ohm Square. Famous for long periods of creating the new album ôTaking Shapeö was
written and recorded in the last two years.
Ohm Square is one of the most famous Czech bands. Founded in 1996 as a trio Jan
Cechtick² (Jan2), Jan Klenφk (Jan5) and DuÜan Lipert (DuÜan Only One) engaged
english songstress Charlotte Fairman soon, who worked for the English dance act
Wubble U as lead singer in the 90ies. But also the male colleagues of Charlotte
were part of national successful band projects like The Sebastians or
Colorfactory. At the beginning the band focused their creative energy on
Drum'n'Bass and Breakbeat and released the results of their collective work on
the own label Mr. Cucumber. After the first singles äPillowô and äColoured Postô
the first album äOhmophonicaô followed also in 1996 and was the start of an
impressive career. Until now Ohm Square were honoured with two Popular Music
Academy's Angel Awards and the caption äBand Of The Decadeô by the only Czech
indie radio station Radio 1. Meanwhile they toured with Fat Boy Slim, Lou Reed,
Coldcut, Kosheen and the EZ Rollers and produced three albums.
The follow-up longplayer of äLove Classicsô puts it concrete form. The strong
songwriting and the intuition for clear and complex forms leads the sound of Ohm
Square to a new quality of pop eclecticism. Placed between Soul, R'n'B,
Breakbeat, Electro and Dance the exploding sound of Ohm Square's äTaking Shapeô
fuses to light and dreamy but kind of abstract lounge styles in the ballads. It
is amazing how careful the voice of Charlotte Fairman manages all the different
styles and colours. Between Kosheen and Moloko exists enough empty space to fill
it with this funky, smooth and complex kind of power pop spiked with enough
soul, sensitiveness, creativity and candidness. This very direct and soulful
album goes directly into heart and body and is definitely one of THE electropop
albums in 2009.