(idm) review: beanfield

From David Hodgson
Sent Wed, May 13th 1998, 18:42

hmm - i love this album - even though the cover is really ugly. It's been
licensed to Streetbeat ( http://www.streetbeatrecords.com )and now has a US
domestic release - after i'd been trying to find it for the last 4 months...

what's it like? well track 12 sums it up pretty well - this is made up of a
loop from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" ( which i'd have thought everyone
on the list should own ;-) and what sounds like the theme from Twin Peaks.
It sounds gorgeous. 

The whole album is really funky - feels quite laidback - even though several
of the tracks are pretty fast - quite poppy - several of the tracks have
vocals (vocodered), it's all melodic. Pretty eclectic set of stuff - a bit
of jungle, some house, some funk, some electro, some trip hop ( i hate that
term ). Lots of analogue squelch