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Snug As A Bug - Imitate People

 

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Artist: Snug As A Bug

Title: Imitate People

Label: Hadshot

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. Couple Of These

02. Flat Freddy

03. Free Haze

04. Imitate People

05. Piphonic

06. Beware Of The Baboons

07. Second Level

08. Fools On Fancy Dress

09. Big Block (Rmx)

10. Smuggling Beat

 

Review:

 

Fools on Fancy Dress is a dark piece of music, fast and industrial. the

bassline is very good and some voices seems to cross the music sometimes.

There are touches of psychedelia thru very dark sounds. the breaks are in the

good place. I think this is intelligent minimal psy.

Beware of the Baboons attacks very hard from the begining. It sounds like some

Auricular stuff. It's linear in the rhythmic but the rest changes a lot and

tends to evolve in some scary sound association. Ouargh it doesn't let you

take a breath until the middle of the track. What strange sounds they use!

Big Block Remix looks like some track of Authentik...like a run in a thriller.

Then it becomes more basic with a great play on bassline and drums. then it

becomes more psychedelic with two more layers of plastic notes and drums. Yet

it's very basic and should be played in the middle of the night.

Second Level is very linear, still full of industrial sounds...quite jumpy but

may be boring at the end.

Couple of these is fast and full of bass. I guess people would dance on this

one with energy. Yet it has little stops and additions of dark sounds along

the track. After a big break it restarts aggressively and one more line of

bass gives more depth to the track along with small sounds that seem happy

compared to the rest. There is a really beautiful play with the basslines near

the end. Wonderful track.

Free Haze gives you the feeling you are in a medic laboratory in an asylum

beacause the sounds are weird. After the intro, a layer of growly dark sounds

and a layer with a calm smooth melody is added to the rhythm.

After a break, it becomes more mental, very fast bassline, indus sounds...at

the end its really spooky, but not noisy. Perfect music for an horror movie!

Piphonic uses the same receipe as before. The rhythmic rolls a lot, but the

sounds seem to give it a funky touch. A few notes and the reverb are well used

to give more depth. After the middle of the track it's more aggressive but the

content remains the same. I wonder how they did the ghost-voices...

Smuggling Beat is very minimal, with a big beat and terror sounds again. Some

little plastic notes take place progressively and your atention is caught by a

big snare. It is really very industrial but the rhythmic makes it very groovy.

too bad it becomes a bit rough and boring near the end.

Overall don't forget your strait-jacket before listening to that album. It's a

very good one. I'm not a minimal expert but i'd give it at least 8/10.

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I am quite dissapionted with this... The album is good, with no bad track, but

after the tracks on Liquid Levels and Flowin I expected something more

inventive - the old tracks were simply brilliant... But it still is a

floorshakin' thing and is worth playing. 8/10

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Guest vernon sullivan

not that great, there is alot of better music in this style available. some

nice tracks (fools on fancy dress and couple of these especially) but overall

the sounds are all pretty weak compared to the stomping sounds of

3.turn/authentik and others, and rythmically there's nothing to rave about.

still not bad, but as was mentioned above not as good as other stuff from

these guys

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Guest DJ_MinD_BloW[at]hotmail[dot]com

I realy love this Album , very nice to lisson to from Start to end.

 

but its realy odd that i got 3-4 CD that's not reviewed yet.

Like the compil : Stereoide , and Set:01(Iboga Records owns)

And 2 albums

Zerotonine - Cygnus Loops(RoXXer Album , realy nice bassline, but u need big

speakers to play it, it release the power on this CD.

and Cubica(only 4 tracks but i got it cheep) a little slow but very nice.

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agree xith Freak51... nothing new here but still very good... Piphonic is my

favourite. It's goos for the dancefloor. If you're looking for smooth and

pumping psychedelic grooves, hen you should try this one...

7,5/10

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Guest SjÖgGe

well, here we have a good danceable album, i realy like this kind of swingy

stuff,but the singles they have released is much better then the album, but

anyway it worked forrrr me at the dancefloor, best tracks is ,1,2,3,4 and 8

... 6/10 from sweden.

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Excellent release that is being played around the world - if u have been to a

party in the last 6 months u have heard these trax. These r block rockin'

beats in the French Mafia style; psychedelic sounds and passages over layered

reverbed beats. Great review Mars - the only place i differ with u is that i

dont find it boring towards the end. Viva La France - 8/10

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Guest suck my dick or else i take ur v

just take a couple of these and u can do a good album like this on...

i like this album alot its wicked and crazzzy just as we want it to be, but in

the end of the cd its getting cheesy in the beginning its hard and intensiv..

8/10

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Guest Smarthowie

Flat Freddy is the best track - in my opinion. But the whole album is not so

good as I expected! Not too many of the stomping-madness songs... tOO bad!

pEacE :)

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