24-10-2014 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1995-1999 (2h 26m)

24-10-2014 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1995-1999  >>King Crimson, Monster Magnet, Beck, dEUS, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey, Portishead, Lauryn Hill, Tindersticks, Sleater-Kinney<<

 M U S I C  (2h 26m)

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1995-1999

Arguably the definitive exponents of British progressive rock, spurred on by Robert Fripp's innovative guitar work. If there is one group that embodies progressive rock, it is King Crimson. Led by guitar/Mellotron virtuoso Robert Fripp, during its first five years of existence the band stretched both the language and structure of rock into realms of jazz and classical music, all the while avoiding pop and psychedelic sensibilities...

King Crimson 

Dinosaur (Adrian Belew / Bill Bruford / King Crimson / Robert Fripp / Trey Gunn / Tony Levin / Pat Mastelotto) 6:37

Coda: Marine 475 (Adrian Belew / Bill Bruford / King Crimson / Robert Fripp / Trey Gunn / Tony Levin / Pat Mastelotto) 2:41

Walking on Air (Adrian Belew / Bill Bruford / King Crimson / Robert Fripp / Trey Gunn / Tony Levin / Pat Mastelotto) 4:38

from THRAK 1995

...King Crimson returned from a ten-year exile in 1995 with THRAK, their first album since 1984's Three of a Perfect Pair. As with the '80s band, guitarist/ringleader Robert Fripp recruited singer/guitarist Adrian Belew, bassist Tony Levin, and drummer Bill Bruford for this incarnation of his classic band. However, he added to this familiar quartet two new members: Chapman Stick player Trey Gunn and ex-Mr. Mister drummer Pat Mastelotto. Effectively, Fripp created a "double trio," and the six musicians combine their instruments in extremely unique ways. The mix is very dense, overpoweringly so at times, but careful listens will reveal that each musician has his own place in each song; the denseness of the sound is by design, not the accidental result of too many cooks in the kitchen... King Crimson came back in a major way with THRAK, and proved that, even in its fourth major incarnation, Fripp and company still had something to say. High-quality prog.

New Jersey retro-rockers who delivered sludgy, drug-fueled, and feedback-heavy hard rock from their debut in the late '80s. Retro-rock visionaries Monster Magnet spent much of the 1990s struggling against the prejudices imposed upon image and sound by the alternative rock elite...

Monster Magnet 

Dopes to Infinity (Dave Wyndorf) 5:44

Look to Your Orb for the Warning (Dave Wyndorf) 6:32

Ego, the Living Planet (Dave Wyndorf) 5:07

from Dopes to Infinity 1995

Expecting Monster Magnet to change from art-sludge-psych monsters into sweet cuddlebunnies from album to album clearly demonstrates a loss of reason. Wyndorf himself doesn't need to worry about losing his reason in particular, given how psychotically entertaining his band already is, and Dopes to Infinity is about as far apart from Superjudge as the original Siamese twins were to each other. Maybe "Dopeheads to Infinity" would have been the better title, but as the title track fires up into another rampage of excessively flanged guitar, storming lead riff, and steady drum stomp, all criticisms get left behind along with any sort of sanity. Wyndorf's singing is a touch crisper in the mix this time out, while the guitar playing is even more powerfully direct and epic amidst all the space-out swirl and rockets to the moon. ..

One of the most inventive, eclectic figures of the alternative era, the epitome of post-modern chic in an era obsessed with junk culture. Initially pegged as the voice of a generation when "Loser" turned into a smash crossover success, Beck wound up crystallizing much of the postmodern ruckus inherent in the '90s alternative explosion, but in unexpected ways. Based in the underground anti-folk and noise rock worlds, Beck encompassed all manner of modern music, drawing on hip-hop, blues, trash rock, pop, soul, lounge music -- pretty much any found sound or vinyl dug up from a dusty crate -- blurring boundaries and encapsulating how '90s hipsters looked toward the future by foraging through the past...

Beck

Devils Haircut (Beck / James Brown / Phil Coulter / John King / Bernard Purdie / Thomas Scott / Mike Simpson) 3:14

Hotwax (Beck / Alexandra Brown / George Douglas / Monk Higgins / John King / Horace Ott / Bernard Purdie / Mike Simpson) 3:49

Lord Only Knows (Beck / Mike Millius / Don Thomas) 4:15

from Odelay 1996

Unlike Stereopathetic Soul Manure and One Foot in the Grave, the indie albums that followed his debut Mellow Gold by a mere matter of months, Odelay was a full-fledged, full-bodied album, released on a major label in the summer of 1996 and bearing an intricate, meticulous production by the Dust Brothers in their first gig since the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique... Like Mellow Gold, Odelay winds up touching on a number of disparate strands -- folk and country, grungy garage rock, stiff-boned electro, louche exotica, old-school rap, touches of noise rock -- but there's no break-neck snap between sensibilities, everything flows smoothly, the dense sounds suggesting that the songs are a bit more complicated than they actually are... Like a mosaic, all the details add up to a picture greater than its parts, so while some of Beck's best songs are here, Odelay is best appreciated as a recorded whole, with each layered sample enhancing the allusion that came before.

27-08-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1991-1996 (2h 49m)

27-08-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1991-1996  >>Massive Attack, Gong, Peter Gabriel, Medeski Martin & Wood, Anekdoten, Helmet, Grant Lee Buffalo, King Crimson, Monster Magnet, Beck<<

 M U S I C  (2h 49m)

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1991-1996

Bristol collective whose combination of dark rhythms, reverb-laden guitars, and atmospheric samples helped pioneer the sound of trip-hop.

Massive Attack 

Daydreaming  (W. Badarou / Robert del Naja) 4:14

Be Thankful for What You've Got 4:09

Five Man Army (Robert del Naja) 6:04

Unfinished Sympathy  (Robert del Naja) 5:08

from Blue Lines 1991

The first masterpiece of what was only termed trip-hop much later, Blue Lines filtered American hip-hop through the lens of British club culture, a stylish, nocturnal sense of scene that encompassed music from rare groove to dub to dance. The album balances dark, diva-led club jams along the lines of Soul II Soul with some of the best British rap (vocals and production) heard up to that point, occasionally on the same track... Flaunting both their range and their tremendously evocative productions, Massive Attack recorded one of the best dance albums of all time.

Anarchic, experimental, and whimsical ensemble originally led by guitarist Daevid Allen, a founding member of the Soft Machine.

Gong 

Shapeshifter (Daevid Allen / Didier Malherbe) 4:43

Hymnalayas (Daevid Allen / Keith Bailey) 7:38

Dog-O-Matic (Shyamal "Banana Ananda" Maitra) 3:00

from Shapeshifter 1992

For their first album of new material in over 20 years, the real Gong (i.e., one led by Daevid Allen and containing a number of players from the classic '60s-'70s period) offer -- well, much of what made them so popular in the first place. There's an impish sense of humor to the lyrics, Gilli Smyth's deeply echoing space whisper, stunning sax and flute work from the criminally underrated Didier Malherbe, and plenty of trademark glissando guitar from Allen himself. Goddesses are invoked, gnomes are mentioned, and rhubarb is eaten, among many other things. Guitarist Steffi Sharpstrings fills what was Steve Hillage's role with plenty of post-punk energy, but really it all revolves around Allen's personality and some stunning music. Time's been kind to Gong. Their pioneering space rock ways found a home with the ambient crowd and their music shows they've listened to what's gone on and incorporated it into their sonic journey, which is part prog rock, part jazz, and part just out there...

Daevid Allen

Theatrical leader of '70s-era Genesis and a bona fide pop star by the '80s despite his experimental, often exotic, material. As the leader of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock to new levels of theatricality. He was no less ambitious as a solo artist, but he was more subtle in his methods. With his eponymous debut solo album in 1977, he explored dark, cerebral territory, incorporating avant-garde, electronic, and worldbeat influences into his music.
Peter Gabriel 

Come Talk to Me (Peter Gabriel) 7:05

Only Us (Peter Gabriel) 6:32

Digging in the Dirt (Peter Gabriel) 5:18

Kiss That Frog (Peter Gabriel) 5:19

from Us 1992

Six years after earning his first blockbuster, Peter Gabriel finally delivered Us, his sequel to So. Clearly, that great span of time indicates that Gabriel was obsessive in crafting the album, and Us bears the sound of endless hours in the studio... Since the music is so muted, it's no surprise that the album failed to capture a mass audience the way So did, but it's foolish to expect anyone but serious fans to unravel an album this deliberate. Gabriel is as adventurous as ever, yet he is relentlessly sober about his experiments, burying exotic sounds and percussion underneath crawling tempos measured atmospherics -- this is tastefully two-toned music, assembled by a consummate craftsman who became too immersed in detail to make anything but an insular, introspective work... But it takes a lot of spins and patience to get to that point, since this is an album he made for himself, and only those dedicated to the artist will have the patience to decode it.