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- Date Released: November 24, 2008
- Genre: Electronic
- Label: Werk Discs / IODA
A delicious, funhouse-mirror trip through '90s rave
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We Say...
You might have expected Zomby's debut album to be an exercise in head- spinning futurism. This is, after all, the guy (he's from London and doesn't give out his real name) who gained a name with the rough-and-slinky dubstep of "Spliff Dub" and "Mu5h", not to mention Rustie's dizzying remix of the former (on "Mu5h"'s B-side). Instead, Where Were U in '92? is a sharp jump backward — and a welcome one.
Every track is drenched in the tumultuous sound of that year's new dance-music model: clattering breakbeats, nattering piano lines, belch-and-zoom low end and vocal snippets that, run through cheap samplers, sounded alien even if you'd heard them in their original environments a zillion times. "Tears in the Rain" utilizes a muddy snippet from the Supremes' "Come See About Me" ("I've been, I've been crying") that gains surprising poignancy atop wobbling bass and tinny snares; "U Are My Fantasy (Street Fighter II Theme Remix)" relentlessly works a bit of Baby D's gurgling-euphoric '92 classic "Let Me Be Your Fantasy" into videogame music, an apt crossing of two forms' golden age. One of the cheekier, and most resonant, aspects of Where Were U in '92? is that the songs segue, if not slam, right into each other, as if taped off pirate radio and run together with a cassette deck's pause button — the sure mark of a true fan.
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| 01. |  |
Fuck Mixing, Let's Dance |
3:00 |
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| 02. | |
Euphoria |
3:27 |
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| 03. | |
We Got the Sound |
1:57 |
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| 04. | |
Daft Punk Rave |
1:02 |
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| 05. | |
Tears in the Rain |
4:34 |
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| 06. | |
Get Sorted |
2:18 |
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| 07. | |
G.T.i |
1:26 |
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| 08. | |
Float |
3:19 |
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| 09. | |
Need Ur Lovin' |
2:24 |
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| 10. | |
Pillz |
4:21 |
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| 11. | |
Hench |
2:24 |
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| 12. | |
B With Me |
3:52 |
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| 13. | |
Where Were U in '92? |
2:04 |
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| 14. | |
U Are My Fantasy (Street Fighter II Theme Remix) |
2:03 |
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14 Total Tracks, 38:11 Total Length
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