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Third Ear Audio - Third Ear Audio (Dubmission)
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psyreviews
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Posted : Jul 1, 2009 02:43:51
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1. Intro
2. Ethereality
3. Just a moment
4. Freak of nature
5. Up in smoke
6. Jamaican Robot
7. The sleeping giant
8. Final front ear
9. Deep Blue
10. The End?
Lovers of intelligent downtempo, rejoice. Third Ear Audio is a weighty collaboration between Nick Doof and Celli Firmi, and it’s fucking magnificent.
I think we would all be in agreement that an increasing amount of downtempo psychedelic music borrows quite considerably from Shpongle. We would also probably agree that a lot of it, despite being pleasant enough, falls foul of the identikit trap, sounding more and more like itself as time goes on.
Third Ear Audio owes little to Shpongle. It’s dubby, with trance elements and drifting BPMs that make it sound less like an album based on a particular sound, and more like a series of themes and sounds based on the idea of an album.
Third Ear Audio’s music is better than my sentences. The album coasts through three (or possible more) flavours. It kicks off with what one might call ‘top-drawer chill’, with Ethereality’s warm and spacious hammock soundtrack, and Just A Moment with its echoes to finer Abakus and Tripswitch recordings.
Things then get very dubby. Freak of Nature stands proud as a solid example of what these boys do right – quality production, imaginative elements, and progression that’s always organic and never forced. Up In Smoke and Jamaican Robot pepper comedy on top, which is always a winner round these parts.
The Sleeping Giant takes on a smooth, understated 4/4. If you’re a fan of Doof’s later output – which is still bloody old, but you know what I mean – then you’ll like his laid-back approach to beats and this continues the trend.
The highpoint is probably Final Front Ear, which brings in elements from various styles, and packages them all up into something completely fresh, and also completely wonderful. I can’t help thinking that Third Ear Audio has beaten Younger Brother to the summit of some sort of mad mountain of mad good music – it is at once more refreshing, more emotive, and more significant. Tops.
Deep Blue sounds like a contender for an old Blue Room compilation that gives way to some wonderful melodies, and closing track The End brings it all back around to full circle, making you instantly want to listen to the whole thing again.
I must admit I was pleasantly surprised by this. There’s a tremendous amount of depth on this album. And when that’s coupled with a tremendous amount of soul, inventiveness, production quality, variation and sheer chumminess, it’s fast approaching that watermark above which something is called Essential.
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Yidam
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Posted : Jul 1, 2009 12:22
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sik sik sik!!!  This sounds hot... best thing since Multiple Organisms. |
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squirm
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Posted : Jul 7, 2009 12:15
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psyreviews
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Posted : Jul 8, 2009 03:49
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.. the very same |
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Ah-sid
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Posted : Jul 8, 2009 16:33
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very nice chillax cd.......neatly placed trax
5th trak with samples 4m cheech and chong is simply awesome. . . .
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dash
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Posted : Jul 10, 2009 00:33
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yea!
super tunes..
some really new sounds ..
Boom
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On 2009-07-07 12:15, squirm wrote:
sounds like i need to check this out asap
just out of curiosity - celli firmi, aka earthling?
cheers!
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squirm
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Posted : Jul 10, 2009 10:24
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Justin Chaos
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Posted : Jul 18, 2009 21:39
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Meta-Morphosis
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Posted : Jul 19, 2009 05:42
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Yes some really good music, dubmission is going stronger !!
“What we need is the development of the Inner Spiritual man, the unique individual, whose treasure is hidden in the symbols of our mythological tradition and in man’s unconscious psych.” - CJ Jung |
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Meta-Morphosis
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Posted : Jul 19, 2009 07:01
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Some eye openers are :-
Ethereality
Just a moment
Freak of nature
The end?
Final front ear
Deep blue << My favourite track in the album.
“What we need is the development of the Inner Spiritual man, the unique individual, whose treasure is hidden in the symbols of our mythological tradition and in man’s unconscious psych.” - CJ Jung |
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