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- Date Released: August 28, 2007
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Techno
- Label: !K7 Records
Tech-house fixtures split the difference between evolution and nostalgia.
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We Say...
James Taylor and David Brown, aka Swayzak, have been fixtures in the tech-house scene since their debut single, “Bueno/Fukumachi,” in 1997. Ten years on, their fifth album release, Some Other Country, reflects not just the maturity and evolution of 21st-century techno but also the long shadows it casts on its own past. Micro-beats, rhythms reduced to a scrunch of quarks underpin Some Other Country, but it's overarched with lush, meteor showers of synth, reminders of the more opulent '90s.
There's a sense of deep, melancholic space about the album, with DJ Cassy's creamy, high-register funk vocals on opener “Quiet Life” setting the tone. On “Distress and Calling,” sequencer-diced voices wheel helpless and disembodied around the mix, hitting an ancient storm of Acid squiggles. “Silent Luv,” meanwhile, intensifies with the participation of Italian group Les Fauves, introducing a note of '80s pop portentousness. “They Return” is built around a treated sample of what could be some '50s sci-fi TV series, culminating in the salvage of a rusty, Meccano chunk of Orbital from orbit, but it's on the deceptively straightforward instrumental “Pukka Bumbles” that Swayzak are at their most unaffected, composed and uplifting.
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Quiet Life |
7:25 |
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| 02. | |
So Cheap |
6:52 |
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| 03. | |
No Sad Goodbyes |
5:33 |
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| 04. | |
Distress and Calling |
5:18 |
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| 05. | |
Smile and Receive |
6:18 |
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| 06. | |
Claktronic |
7:07 |
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| 07. | |
Silent Luv |
5:58 |
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| 08. | |
Pukka Bumbles |
5:27 |
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| 09. | |
By The Rub Of Love |
6:02 |
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| 10. | |
They Return |
6:06 |
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10 Total Tracks, 62:06 Total Length
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Credits
- L.U.P.O. - Mastering // David Brown - Producer // Richard Anthony Davis - Vocals // Francesco Brini - Percussion // Francesco Brini - Drums // Francesco Brini - Producer // Francesco Brini - Assistant // Justin Martin - Flute // Cassy Britton - Vocals // Daisy Densham - Vocals // Daisy Densham - Melodica // Matt Densham - Assistant // Les Fauves - Vocals // Dimitri Papaioannou - Jaw Harp
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