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DownHill - Silent City - G+ Records
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Mxs
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Posted : Aug 25, 2003 10:20
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The Delta are back with the album release of Downhill where industrial soundscapes meet futuristic dub beats. A soundtrack for the future incorporating typical Delta symphomatic atmospherics and a slight melancholic undertone, this release is a promising start for Jan + Marcus's own label.
Downhill - Silent City - Gravity Plus Recs
THREE YEAR DROUGHT
PERFECT MAN
ED LAB
GROUND EFFECTS
THE FINAL MILES
SILENT CITY
33 DEGREES
WEAKEN MEMORIES
PERFECT MAN (HUMAN)
SILENT CITY (SOUNDTRACK)
Warming up with Three Year Drought a journey through neo-dub down tempo electro trance amazing melodic touches and soothing commentary make for a very special journey.
Perfect Man is like slow X-dream even featuring the monster keyboard from Quantum Lab. Quirky fat Sci-fi broken beats overlaided with heavy electro brain smashing textures with some lovely cruisy sounds sprinkled throughout and a lovely vibrating bass line thats seems the come alive from the very start.
ED Lab begins with a massive drum loop in true trip hop style, then the double bass hits. This track is amazing only problem it's only about 4mins long.
Ground Effects brings in the german electro influences into the mix with some deep dark pulstating grooves and a little vocal work in true brooding electro style.
Final Mile is standard Delta fare, using the heavy soundscapes Marcus, Arne and Wayan have stylised there work with. Atmospheric soundtrack downtempo.
Title track Silent City continues in this style with some spooky soundtrack-esque atmospheres, these last two track sound very much like
slowed down Delta not that it's a bad thing.
33 Degress raises the tempo with a nice cruisey electro number. One you can play on the dancefloor.
Weaken Memories is also in 130 range. Chunky kicks great progression with the percussion and some loops that sound like Dado amongst the heavy soundscapes, this track is great to mix some 4/4 into.
Perfect Man (Human) is pretty much the same as the other mix just without all the noisy sounds over the top. Turning it into a cruisy lounge track.
Silent City (Soundtrack) finishes it off with a slower one, ending the journey.
A great begining for G-Plus records, this is a journey through neo-dub industrial soundscapes melancholic trip hop and spooky sci-fi soundtrack. Some of the tracks are a little short and some of them sound a little like slow Delta but these are only small complaints I really can't find much to fault with this release.
A real visual album I feel like being in a David Lynch movie travelling down a barren road at night with nothing in sight.
Fave tracks, all of them especially, 1,2,3,4,7,8 |
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jyxx
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Posted : Aug 25, 2003 15:19
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where did You get it ???????
 last.fm/user/jyxx/ |
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misha
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Posted : Aug 28, 2003 13:03
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It will be released soon worldwide, so far available only in Japan, but it will not take long for worldwide, its planned for the End of September!
Great review MXS!
I will also post mine here later when have more time.
Respect. |
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Time lock (BNE)
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Posted : Aug 28, 2003 14:26
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on the demo"s the albom sounds very good!
experemental and dark!
very interesting material! "gravity plus" label its different sound and better from the other german tech music based labels! im happy that german x-dream-dalta-midimiliz crew found for them a good place!
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russ
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Posted : Aug 28, 2003 17:45
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i don't think they "found" a good place--they made a good place! gravity plus is their own label. and the 1st release is very high quality. very cinematic in scope and flavor. |
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Mxs
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Posted : Aug 30, 2003 05:12
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misha: thanks for the kind words.
What can I say I love this album, so much fun the explore the sounds and space they've created on this release.
Jyxx- I got hold of a japanese release, won't be long to it's out everywhere.
This is a must for anyone into deep, brooding, soulful music. |
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misha
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Posted : Sep 15, 2003 00:49
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The official Worlwide release date of this album is: 30,October 2003.
You can also by it on the net now from Japan, just make a search through searching engine for Downhill "Silnet City" Gravity Plus Records or G+ Records still it should be pretty expensive. |
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misha
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Posted : Oct 4, 2003 16:13
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review by Pasha /Horns & Hoofs
Downhill - Silent City (Gravity Plus Records).
First thing I would like to say in this review, is that
I find it hard to describe this album properly. The music will do it better for me.
You will just have to hear it for yourselves. But it does sound like some
sort of soundtrack to a dark cyberpunk thriller, like a camera is flying over huge, dirty,
foggy silent city, over industrial zones, towers,
flying into sewers and empty buildings... It's the music of giant abandoned spaceships...
This is the picture that comes into my head when listening to it. Something dark and atmospheric.
The first track on the album (Three Years Drought)sounds like some sort of cyberdub.
Serious bassline, which creates some kind of suspence, dubby, piano like sounds,
and the background pads and samples are just fantastic. And that mysterious feel it has, it's just excellent.
A Pefect Man, with the same sample in it, is a down-tempo-electro-breaks piece,
with scratches and this new distorted sounds of XDream, that can be heard on Gplus site and of course in
"We are the first" track, that is causing havoc during all their live acts. Massive is the word.
The tacks like Ed lab, can be easily signed to Ninja Tune and the likes, with its chello bassline,
broken rhythm, weird melody, and lots of scratches. An example of diversity on this cd.
Ground Effects returns to dark downtempo line, another soundtrack like pice of music,
very atmospheric and... trippy. It's like you fall into some kind of abyss beacuse
of that backgrounds they create.
The Final Miles continues but in a slower way, electronic buzzing synth line,
vocoded voice samples, violins delayed and reverberated, and that Delta like chorus voices,
they make me feel tiny, standing among an enormous empty building.
The name of the next track (Silent City) speaks for itself.
Clapping electroish rythm line, another track that could easily be used as a
soundtrack to some dark movies.
33 degrees becomes a little faster and it is a wonderfull electro track, with its claps,
huge distorted melody, and robotic sounds here and there. Life of abandoned machines, no shit : )
Weaken Memories will surely be a present to the Delta style fans, because it somehow reminds
the stuff they make. it's fastest track on the album, if I can say so.
Jumpy basslines, techy looped percussion, and yes, that cinema feel, they create by
their massive sounds is also here. Brilliant.
Then there is a remix to track 2 which make it sound more electroish and an ambient (soundtrack) version of silent city.
Sounds like a soundtrack indeed because of the orchestral feel it has. Very industrial.
Conclusion: Excellent. Another quality mark from Elmshorn team. A development of their sound that pretty much shows
what the guys are into for the moment. An album which can be adressed to wide crowds
of people, not only to the ones that know Xdream, Delta and so on. A cyber downtempo-electro thriller.
Dark and massive.
Favorites? None so far, or in other words all at once.
I prefer listening to the whole album, because it creates a wider picture.
P.S. The album will soon be released. Online promos are available on http://www.gplusrecords.com Make love to the music...
http://www.hornsandhoofs.com
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