(idm) luke slater_freek funk album review

From wayne
Sent Tue, Oct 14th 1997, 22:10

ok,this is from a promo copy,its got 16 tracks,so i guess its the full one.
1.    purely(4/4 club funky beat.. 7/10)
2.    score one(mello orchestral stuff   7/10)
3.    origin(bleepy,reminds me of fuse )
4.    score two (atmospheric 7/10)
5.    are you there? (more electro beat,thwarty bassline,strnge vocals,swirly
chords)
6.    score three(message from hulal)(steven hawking computer voice over orchestal
swirls)mixes into.......
7.    engine one    bee noises over beat,gets funky,thumpy,mainly a percussive
track,quite distorted and crunchy
8.    freek funk(plinky plonky arpeggios,vocal chiors..youve probably heard this)
9.    zebediah(slo beaty with echoey vocal snippets,dubby bassline,sounds 7/8 kinda
beat..i e strange....
10.    bless bless(big beat...space fx ,
11.    filter2( 4/4 beat,filtery bassline,doesnt evolve much)
12.    time dancer(faint distorted beat into a chopped up beat,eastern influenced
bit,vocal snipetts..pretty funky)
13.    score four(black cloud over zin vortex)
14.    love     (like 7th plain tracks..nice)
15.    black cloud (epilogue)
16.     walking the line (slowed down break beat,lo double bass line,mixing in
strange vocal snippets.almost like some half tempo blackdog/fsol/plaid track..)
(previously ive prefered the 7th plain style,mello electronic stuff.)

generally its pretty good,less full on that the morganistic style,a mix of
four/four funky techno club beats and 7th plain chords/swirls...
stand out tracks include..

track 5..up to date electro with added strangeness,effected vocal snippets,
track 8..the main tune,pretty funky track that distorts and evolves the way most
like....strange vocally stuff
track 14 a nice mello percusive track,nice chords,with a female vocal talking
evocatively over the top(though u cant understand what she says..)reminds me of
carl craig/sueno latino type of thing...
track16  quite a slo track,trip hoppish,and gets more warped towards the end...

ok,thats it...a pretty good album,that ,if u like all the styles of previous
albums,you should enjoy..both for the club and home ..but not to the extremes of
the harder/faster style...
7.5/10 overall

wayne