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Average customer rating: Only available on import now? Whoa! Hip-Hop's History Lesson on Jazz......(3.5 stars) Very Inventive THIS IS REAL ACID JAZZ

The New Groove: The Blue Note Remix Project, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Acid Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music Jazz Funk | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Experimental Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Rap & Hip-Hop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Untinted: Sources for Madlib's Shades of Blue Shades of Blue Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project What Is Hip?: Remix Project, Vol. 1 Phonography ASIN: B000005H2H Release Date: 1996-07-27

Tracks:

1. Kofi - Donald Byrd
2. Hummin' - Cannonball Adderley
3. Living For The City - Noel Pointer
4. Listen Here - Gene Harris
5. Friends & Strangers - Ronnie Laws
6. Down Here On The Ground - Grant Green
7. Summer Song - Ronnie Foster
8. Move Your Hand - Lonnie Smith
9. The Sophisticated Hippie - Horace Silver
10. Montara - Bobby Hutcherson
11. Mixed Feelings (The New Groove) - Jacky Terrasson

Album Description

New Groove: Blue Note Remix Project features music by Donald Byrd, Cannonball Adderley, Gene Harris, Horace Silver, Ronnie Foster and more. EMI.

Customer Reviews:

Only available on import now?.......2002-05-24

What's up with this record being on import? You can't get it domestically anymore? That would be a crying shame. Check the remixing of Donald Byrd's Kofi by The Angel, Guru's work on Eddie Harris's Listen Here and Michael Franti on Lonnie Smith. Gift of Gab from Blackalicious gets a special mention for his rhyme on the Jacky Terrasson track Mixed Feelings, produced by The Angel. The list goes on. Pick this up before it disappears completely.

Whoa!.......2002-04-24

I'm a 48 year old guy who has pretty much let hip-hop pass me by...which was just fine with me. But after hearing this Blue Note ReMix...wow...if your not jumping and moving to this music remixed from all time great jazz to hip-hop and acid jazz, you need new battiers for your hearing aid. Great!

Hip-Hop's History Lesson on Jazz......(3.5 stars).......2002-04-06

Hip Hop fans and Acid Jazz historians take note: The Blue Note Remix Project is a classic album released prior to the tidal wave of many 'Various Artist' acid jazz CDs and is definitely an album to be noted as an originator. The CD is based upon many famous jazz songs and has an impressive line up of album credits. The original jazz tracks were taken and then mixed and with samples added by hip-hop DJs, are transformed into good head-bobbing compiliation. Looking at the track listing any jazz fan will recognize the names as staples in the Jazz world. Special notation should be given to the smooth female vocals on "Kofi" [#1], the hip-hop treatment of the muted horn on "Listen Here" [#4], the paris-esque vibe of "Friends & Strangers" [#5], and the Ernest Ranglin-like slide-guitar-vibing and electronic organ keyboard on "Summer Song" [#7] which emits the best overall vibe of the entire album; no need for lyrics on this song...it's old school jazz-cool. "Move Your Hand" [#8] has Caribbean-rooted hip-hop lyrics while giving tribute to Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". "Montara" [#10]provides some sultry and soulful female vocals to go along jazztastic xylophone work; it almost makes you forget about the head-bobbing bass that persists in the track. This is not an album for dance-aholics. Rave kids need not apply either. Jazz hipsters and hip-hop old schoolers stand up and pay attention. This album draws clear lines as to where hip-hop and jazz have in common; where one takes from the other and where the other is partly-based on the composition and history of it's counterpart. Hip-hop fans who think the "bling bling" is where it's at should take a history lesson. Ready? Class is in session....

Very Inventive.......2002-02-16

I didn't know what acid jazz was until I listened to this CD. It proves that rap song producers are the best remixers in the music business. I'm still waiting for the follow-up.

THIS IS REAL ACID JAZZ.......2001-09-07

This CD sets a standard for Acid Jazz Producers. It blends elements of hip/hop, rap and dance without destroying the original works. In fact I think they were able to enhance many of the tracks on this album thereby exposing a new generation of listners to the works of these great trend setting original artists. It really shows you that this "acid jazz" thing is really nothing new. It started long before many of the purchasers of this CD were born!

Average customer rating: deep music Prophetic Worship -- par excellance! cloud by day-prophetic worship

Cloud by Day Keith & Sanna Luker & Joann Mcfatter Manufacturer: Creative Planet ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Christian Rock | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Alternative | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Compilations | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Fire By Night The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God Take Us to the River Praying the Bible: The Book of Prayers The Prophet's Dictionary: The Ultimate Guide to Supernatural Wisdom ASIN: B0009P12ZI Release Date: 2004-12-21

Tracks:

1. Interesting Intro (Cloud by Day)
2. Whattayagonnado?
3. Better Is One Day
4. In Your House
5. Get Above It!
6. Doesn't That Feel Better?
7. Come Out
8. Take Me Away
9. Marshmellow
10. Better Get Ready

Product Description

BRAND NEW, FACTORY-SEALED. Ships next day, 1st Class shipping upgrade at no extra charge. Live Prophetic Worship. A project with JoAnn McFatter ("the most free I've ever been in worship"), Keith & Sanna Luker, and Free Wind. Strong recommendations by John Paul Jackson and Wesley & Stacey Campbell.

Customer Reviews:

deep music.......2007-01-26

The CD has a especial annointing for worshipers. The CD is powerful.

Prophetic Worship -- par excellance!.......2005-12-10

I read the first review and have NO idea what that person expected from this CD. But Cloud By Day is one of the most powerful prophetic cds out and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in prophetic music...especially edgy, "out of the box" music. And besides, the quality of its instrumentation and vocals is super as well.

cloud by day-prophetic worship.......2005-09-13

With all due respect to the artists and worshippers involved in what I am sure was a great investment, this cd was a considerable disappointment. The words "prophetic worship" carry significant weight and should be used with great care.
I encourage that this cd be sampled before purchasing and hope that others disagree.

Average customer rating: More Then a Groove amazing DIFFERENT / ENTERTAINING/ORIGINAL AND BRILLIANT Wow! What A Surprise Great blend of genres

Hydraulic Groove Rick Holmstrom Manufacturer: Tone Cool ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Contemporary Blues | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Late in the Night If I Had a Genie Lookout! Shake It! In the Palace of the King ASIN: B0000695VA Release Date: 2002-07-16

Tracks:

1. These Roads
2. Bobo the Hobo
3. Last to Know
4. Pee Wee's Nightmare
5. Shake It, Part 2
6. My Maria
7. Back it Up
8. Gravy
9. Harlan Shuffle
10. Tell Me
11. I'm Gone
12. Roll Tape (with John Medeski)
13. Shake It, Part 2 (DJ Logic Remix)
14. Knock Yourself Out (Genome Remix)
15. Hamp's Hump (with John Medeski)

Amazon.com

The groove is king on this masterful guitarist's latest album--and a chameleon king at that, effortlessly blending Holmstrom's vintage chops with trip-hop, psychedelia, organ-combo sounds, and crazy swing. Although Holmstrom played wonderful, atmospheric guitar on R.L. Burnside's blues-trip-hop fusion disc, Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down, this is a radical departure from Holmstrom's solo recordings, which have stayed firmly in the traditional blues path. Instrumentals like "Bobo the Hobo" mate a smoky cocktail lounge vibe with rock & roll thrust, using flourishes like backward guitar and cranked-up snare for sonic edginess. The best of the vocal tracks, like the love song "My Maria" and the traveling number "These Roads," slice and dice Holmstrom's singing, keyboard loops, electronic burbles, a beat box, and other effects to pump up the modernity. But even when things get outright Martian, as on the percolating, slithery sci-fi-flick arrangement of "Gravy," Holmstrom's guitar keeps the music anchored in the blues. His slowly bent notes, staccato fills, and sweet, slightly distorted amp tones place this album's orbit within the gravitational pull of formative labels like Chess and Sun. But the slinky beauty of the big beats of rap is respected, too, and the pure outness of the sonic collage that pedals behind "Pee Wee's Nightmare" places the song somewhere between jazz, blues, and Brian Eno's ambient recordings. Oddly, Holmstrom only goes astray when he plays it straight. It's in a plain shuffle number like "I'm Gone" that his weaknesses as a lyricist and singer shine through. --Ted Drozdowski

Album Description

Hydraulic Groove, the new release from guitar virtuoso Rick Holmstrom, blends and weaves electric layers, samples and textures into funky, dense, instant-classic guitar grooves. Holmstrom progressively invents a sound entirely his own, proving that the blues is more a state of mind than a genre.

On Hydraulic Groove, Holmstrom enlisted the help of mixer/producer Rob Schnapf whose prior project roster includes artists like Beck, R.L. Burnside, Moby, Elliot Smith and the Foo Fighters. With Schnapf at the nobs, Holmstrom's music comes alive with an eclectic and exciting vitality.

Includes bonus tracks with John Medeski and DJ Logic.

Customer Reviews:

More Then a Groove.......2004-04-26

I never heard of Rick Holmstrom until I listened to a few cuts of his new album that was offered as samples here at Amizon.com. I love the Blues..., and this album is full of it. It definately rocks of the Blues. I never heard anything like it before, but I'm going to by more of Rick's music, for sure.

amazing.......2004-03-24

this rocks, groves, funks, and a lot more. Great cd. too bad that rick hasnt done another 50 like this.

DIFFERENT / ENTERTAINING/ORIGINAL AND BRILLIANT.......2003-07-03

This is not an easy CD to review. It uses alien elements and fuses them together into a challenging blues sound that still touches on the classics at times. The backing band is first class as are most of the songs. HOLMSTROMS vocals are good and complement the excellent material. The guitar playing is original and interesting. He may not be one of the greatest virtuosos, but uses his talents to the max and dazzles you with composition rather than 100 notes per second solos..
Although I was expecting a more guitar orientated CD, I am pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of this CD. Hating loops and samples, I bought this out of curiosity. Not expecting anything very entertaining I find myself playing this regularly and enjoying it more with each listen.

Wow! What A Surprise.......2003-04-19

Well-known for his key role as guitarist with Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers, Rick "L.A. Holmes" Holmstrom has stepped out again on his own and delivered a fun album! This is not a Rod Piazza-soundalike, but a tasty hybrid of blues, funk, hip-hop (no rapping, don't worry!), swing, etc...like a cooler version of Beck as a bluesman. Blues purists will be skeptical at hearing that description but from the opening introduction right before the groove kicks in on "These Roads", a smile will appear on your face. This album is FUN. Brilliant production by Genome & Holmstrom, Holmstrom's all-out guitar licks, clever samples, dazzling percussion. Holmstrom has a decent singing voice as well, often enhanced by effects, as on "Last To Know". Check out the acid-swing instrumental "Pee Wee's Nightmare" or the Booker T & The MG's-like "Bobo The Hobo" to play at a party. The four bonus tracks are superfluous and tend to cause the album to drag on, but that's a minot complaint. Overall, the heart of this disc is still blues and Holmstrom is a dynamite blues guitarist.

Great blend of genres.......2003-02-14

I picked up this album when I read the description of it at the record store. A blend of blues with techno/industrial influences? I just didn't see how that could be done and picked it up thinking it would be (at best) gimicky and worth little more than one play for laughs.

Somehow, Holmstrom makes this work giving us some great songs that aren't quite like anything you've heard before. A great album for fans of the blues who might like to 'update' their image and see what the 21st century has to offer or for aging rivet heads like myself who are slowing down a bit but like to keep in touch with something familiar.

Average customer rating: Fabulous! Unique and beautiful jazz A Great Sound Yes, there is such a thing as "jazz harp."

In a Minor Groove Dorothy Ashby Manufacturer: Prestige ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Afro-Harping Fantastic Jazz Harp of/ Live at the Top The Jazz Harpist Blossom Dearie ASIN: B000000ZDR Release Date: 1994-08-30

Tracks:

1. Pawky
2. Moonlight In Vermont
3. Back Talk
4. Dancing In The Dark
5. Charmain
6. Jollity
7. There's A Small Hotel
8. Rascallity
9. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
10. It's A Minor Thing
11. Yesterdays
12. Bohemia After Dark
13. Taboo
14. Autumn In Rome
15. Alone Together

Customer Reviews:

Fabulous!.......2006-08-19

I bought this as a "thank you" for a jazz lover. It was so outstanding, I had to borrow it myself! It's now on my own Wish List :-) Great for harp lovers, jazz lovers, music lovers - it covers it all!

Unique and beautiful jazz .......2006-03-15

If I had to make a list of favorite obscure CDs this would surely be on it. I'd recommend this to just about anyone with an interest in jazz, especially since this is really two great albums compiled on one CD. I've never heard the harp played anything like this, like some sort of otherworldly guitar. And the flutist Frank Wess is wonderful as well. This is one I keep coming back to when I want to listen to something that just makes me feel good. The whole group just works together so well, at times approaching the lyrical intensity of just about anything I can think of short of Bill Evans. Roy Haynes (or Arthur Taylor) on drums is as always brilliant. I almost wonder why this isn't considered a jazz classic, and this certainly transcends any kind of novelty interest in a jazz harpist or a female jazz instrumentalist.

A Great Sound.......2002-07-04

I bought this album because I wanted to hear some new some new instruments playing jazz, and the sound samples of this album at amazon.com were divine, so I bought this album straight away. I was not disappointed.

In accompaniment to Frank Wess's exemplary flute solos, Ashby plays her harp more like a guitar, and in her own solos, more like a piano. But rest assured, you know you're hearing a harp when you listen, and there's almost nothing else out there that sounds like this. Like the liner notes say, this is not "the hairiest jazz"--at times you can hear very classical patterns, but that just adds to the uniqueness. So far my favorite is the final track from the "Hip Harp" half of the CD, called There's a Small Hotel.

I disagree with the other reviewer's comment that "intonation is a problem" and think that their statement that intonation problems were common in jazz at that time is way off base. The recording is from the 1950s and at time there is some definitely audible fuzz on some of the tracks, but the musicians on this album are consummate professionals and you can hear it in their playing.

I urge anyone interested in bebop jazz or in the harp to buy this CD.

Yes, there is such a thing as "jazz harp.".......1998-09-15

This album is actually a combination of 2 previously released LPs. It is unique in its flavor of straight-ahead jazz for the harp. The instrumentation is Harp, Flute, Bass, and Drums. While intonation is often a problem (as was generally the case in jazz at that time), the overall performance is amazingly merit-worthy, well beyond the novelty aspect. Dorothy's ability to improvise on the harp is still unmatched to this day. It is well worth the buy for anyone interested in the still-infant world of "Jazz Harp."

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Bluegreene: The Greene String Quartet Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Corea, Armando Chick | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schickele | Schickele, Peter | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DNFO Release Date: 1995-07-11

Average customer rating: Some out-there funky jazz...

Flying Groove Various Artists Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Jazz Funk | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Flying Funk Funk Drops Super Breaks: Essential Funk, Soul, & Jazz Samples and Breakbeats The Lost Grooves Cold Heat: Heavy Funk Rarities 1968-1974, Vol. 1 ASIN: B000087HXB Release Date: 2003-02-18

Tracks:

1. Crosstown Traffic - Evans, Gil, & His Orchestra
2. Mama Soul - Alexander, Harold; Purdie, Bernard "Pretty"; Davis, Richard; Landrum, Richard Pablo; Creque, Neal
3. Baby That's What I Need (Walk Tall) - Marrow, Esther
4. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes - Dierdre Wilson Tabac, The; Wilson, Dierdre
5. Yeh-Yeh - Hendricks, Jon; Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan; Lambert, Dave; Bavan, Yolande
6. Hit the Road Jack - Davis, Wild Bill
7. Head Start - Scott, Tom
8. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Scott-Heron, Gil
9. Skull Session - Nelson, Oliver
10. Afrique - Basie, Count, Orchestra, The
11. Messiah (Overture) - Aarons, Albert
12. El Pampero - Barbieri, Gato
13. Night Thing - Spontaneous Combustion
14. The Creator Has a Master Plan (Peace) - Thomas, Leon

Customer Reviews:

Some out-there funky jazz..........2003-05-27

Another great disc with rare funk/jazz singles from
late 60s and 70s. This disc has several adventurous
experimental jazz tracks which are quite good and fresh
sounding, as well as a bunch of funk jams.

Between this album and 'Flying Funk', I'd have to give
Flying Funk a very, very slight edge. But both albums
are worth having. Vintage funk so fresh that it blows
away the music of today.

Average customer rating: Just sharing the Atomic Love... Out of This World Music An exquisite triple-coup Coming Out Electric is out of this world One of the Best CDs I've Heard All Year

Coming Out Electric Manufacturer: self released ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Felt Mountain ASIN: B000BAUMRU Release Date: 2005-01-01

Tracks:

1. Float (my electric stargirl)
2. Wonderlove
3. Space Bandit
4. Drag
5. Diamond Dreamer
6. Underground Love
7. Intergalactic Lesbian Love Song
8. Planet of a Thousand Lies
9. sex66
10. Jupiter's Falling
11. Empty Girl
12. Stars in my Pocket
13. Bonus Float music video

Product Description

The Atomic Swindlers' Coming Out Electric is being met with rave reviews! With descriptions like lush, big and beautiful melodic rock, grand Beatles pop as told by Barbarella... the CD has fans across the US on an intergalactic groove. Songs: 1) Float (my electric stargirl) 2) Wonderlove 3) Space Bandit 4) Drag 5) Diamond Dreamer 6) Underground Love 7) Intergalactic Lesbian Love Song 8) Planet of a Thousand Lies 9) sex66 10) Jupiter's Falling 11) Empty Girl 12) Stars in my Pocket 13) Bonus Float music video The melodies are as beautiful and as catchy as they are off-kilter. Laragy has the perfect ironic sneer built into her vocal chords. She's acting as much as singing on every song in a manner reminiscent of great 1970's singers like Lene Lovich and Kate Bush.... The songwriting is simply superb. -Ron Netsky, Rochester City News

Customer Reviews:

Just sharing the Atomic Love..........2006-04-18

I'm not well-versed in Music Review-ese, so I'll just keep this short, sweet, and simple. The Atomic Swindlers are the most refreshing thing to come along in quite a while - they've made everything old new again with their postmodern retro style, and I can't tell you how nice it is to listen to something that isn't the same old corporate [...] clogging up our airwaves these days! Way to go, April, Roy, Harvey (their super-nice, super-hip manager), and all the rest of the gang! You have a fan for life in me.

Out of This World Music.......2006-02-20

Melodic songs from across the galaxy come poring out of April Laragy and the members of the band Atomic Swindlers.

There's no swindle here just good music. We travel back in time to a period when bands and their music told a story like the Beatles and Ziggy Stardust. And you'll hear a bit of their sound in the Atomic Swindlers as well. Albeit some of the stories told here might be beyond the grasp of the average human intellect.

As soon as the disk starts spinning you can hear the influences of the bands mentioned earlier mixed with the sounds of today. Some of the tunes bring to mind No Doubt or Garbage while others flash back to the Pandoras [thanks in part to the lead vocals on all accounts]. Laragy's cow punk past even shines through on one or two of the tracks.

Each tune lends itself to a different style of music while never
straying too far. The deceptively cheery music tends to hide the
darker forces working within the lyrics [which you can read on the bands official website]. The science fiction theme is never lost in any of the songs, taking the listener to the outer reaches of space and time while more often than not returning us to look even deeper into the human psyche to see what we might have learned on our journey.

Their first music video is a spiffy little animated Samurai-Jack-like adventure where we find the heroine searching the galaxy for her ladylove. The video premiered at the ImageOut film festival for its lesbian theme. And another song, Intergalactic Lesbian Love Song, suggests a future time and place when homosexually just is without the controversy --- as hopefully one day it will be here when all peoples are excepted no matter their race, religion or orientation.

You can watch the video on their website. It is also available on the enhanced CD. Once you see it you'll want more.

Take Atomic Swindlers CD, Coming Out Electric out for a spin or two you'll find yourself listening to it all the time. Be sure to check out the band and the cd on their official website.

An exquisite triple-coup.......2005-10-07

(This review is soon to appear on whoneedscritics.com, the perpetually soon-to-appear website of writer Saby Reyes-Kulkarni:)

On an immediate level, Coming Out Electric is most striking for just how darn *listenable* it is from start to finish. In fact, to call it catchy wouldn't do justice to the craftsmanship and finesse involved in making a group of songs so easy and pleasurable to digest. Listeners should very easily find themselves absorbed yet still maintain only casual involvement in the music if that's as far as they want to go. Where bands like, say, Pink Floyd and Radiohead excel at turning texture into thickness, into a feeling of heft that the listener derives satisfaction from carrying on their shoulders and having to wade through, the Atomic Swindlers make you lightheaded and giddy from drifting through songs composed of the outer edges of ozone that stand between our planet's atmosphere and the blackness of space. Up there the oxygen is thin, so you get that ever-elusive buzz that's just right while guitar squalls echo towards you like flashes of iridescent starlight and trembling, gorgeous piano chords send ripples out from your speakers directly to the pleasure centers of your brain.

Which is not to say that Coming Out lacks drama. On the contrary -- so lovely are these sounds that they bring to mind what Rutger Hauer's replicant character describes for Harrison Ford in the climax of the film Blade Runner, his "I have seen" speech that bears witness to a beauty of unrestrainable radiance and power that lies beyond humanity's grasp. If you've never tried to reach out towards that beauty -- a beauty that Ridley Scott's tragic, doomed android holds close before dying and even tries to impart upon the human antagonist in charge of his own execution -- then you'll be better off for allowing this music to enable you.

Blade Runner might seem like a heavy comparison, but the band itself is actually not far off. The imagery in the songs is forged by lyricists -- drummer Roy Stein, singer April Laragy, and bassist Gary Trainer -- who all have a natural eye for apocalyptic urgency and gloom. (Trainer, for example, bears the mark of authors like William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, and William Burroughs, as well as Allen Ginsberg.) But this is the coup -- the first of three, in fact, that the band pulls off here: depending on your preference or mood, you're free to make the choice between riding the clouds at the surface or descending further into the depths of the music where not only do hidden sonic challenges await but individual souls struggle against a vague but distinctly menacing presence that throbs at the center of our galaxy and threatens to take over the universe and our collective consciousness with it.

How can an album feel like a Friday-night, take-a-load-off-your-feet tonic yet take you to a place where mankind races against spiritual extinction? It's not an easy balance to strike. In fact, it's damn near impossible, yet the Swindlers pull it off. Just like they pull off their second coup (also seemingly impossible): with flair -- by the ostentatious opening chords of the second tune, it's obvious that this band worships at the Altar of Glam. Nowhere do they sound even remotely ashamed of borrowing licks from David Bowie. But, while they call on definitively retro elements, they also move *forward* with them. This is, in truth, futuristic music -- and thus it shows-up so many other modern acts as the soulless, cynical, calculated, creatively bankrupt retrophilic clowns that they are. In fact, even the Swindlers' reverence for glam would eventually grow cloying and overwrought if the band weren't so quick on its feet with subtle, tasty splashes of innovation. In other words, it's apparent that this band loves glam too much to sell it short by presenting it frozen in a time capsule.

Of course, no matter how ambitious this thematic palette might be, the sonics need to provide a solid foundation for the images to come to life. The Atomic Swindlers employ references to extraterrestrials, mass enlightenment, repressive social conditioning, homosexuality (as an ambiguous metaphor for freedom), domestic violence, and hints of the occult. You might have to dig a little to unearth some of these aspects, but engineer Chris Hooker's superb, multi-faceted, and nuance-rich mix makes it all the more worthwhile to go digging -- or not. If you do, you will find that the lyrics are matched perfectly by the special character of the music. (According to Trainer, the lyrics and songwriting and mixing all grew organically together, which makes sense when you consider the album's cohesion.) The strength of Hooker's contribution here can't be overstated: Coming Out is, inexplicably, a "headphones" record where you don't need headphones in order to feel like you're wearing them. It's rare that an album can make your room feel like the space inside your own head, but this music *really* pulls you into it. And the mix is equisitely smooth without sounding over-produced (the third aspect of the aforementioned triple-coup).

Again, you might simply find yourself in the mood to turn-on, tune-out, and sing along with a martini in your hand or pop the album in for background noise while you get dressed for a night on the town. Whatever level of introspective brooding you may favor at the moment, you just can't miss with Coming Out Electric.

Coming Out Electric is out of this world.......2005-09-12

The Rochester, NY based Atomic Swindlers are an out of this world phenomenon with a cosmic groove, a hip spacey sound, celestial lyrics, and a hot front woman oozing sex.

Coming Out Electric is heavy with retro 70's beats, stunning melodic guitars, edgy glam rock, and an out-of-this-world sound thanks to Chris Yockel's sitar work, wah wah, and Fender super reverb tremolo. Scott Ostrowski (guitars, vocals) makes the underlying rockabilly happen, and Roy Stein (drums, guitar, vocals) pens a number of songs on the disc.

For the album, Atomic Swindlers also brought in Brian Eggleston on piano and additional keyboards. The group even snagged former Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra concertmaster and current neighbor of Laragy and Stein, Howard Weiss for violin tracks on "Float (my electric stargirl" and "Underground Love."

Think David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust period-- time-traveling to the days when bands told stories with their music. Atomic Swindlers will make you think of the Beatles while sounding terribly modern even as they pull in influences such as Iggy Pop, Blondie, Joan Jett and vocally, some early Stefani.

The band's upbeat musical style shouldn't be allowed to overshadow its darker lyrical message, however - listen closely. Notable tracks include "Diamond Dreamer," "Underground Love" and "Stars in my Pocket," as well as "Sex66" with its edgy, driving rock and fantastic lyrics.

In all, the Atomic Swindler's debut release, Coming Out Electric, is a wonderfully-conceived, smartly-written, excellently-produced album. More than that, it's a heck of a lot of fun to listen to. We'll be hearing more from this band in the future.

One of the Best CDs I've Heard All Year.......2005-09-07

Unlike most indie CDs, the production on Atomic Swindlers' Coming Out Electric is stellar - rich, lush and rockin'. Add to that intelligent lyrics, a gorgeous lead singer with extraordinary pipes and a tight band who truly understand the real meaning of musicianship - and you've got one heck of an album. The band's music is sci-fi themed, but anyone who just loves excellent music will fall in love with the Swindlers. Laragy's voice reminds one of the best of Concrete Blonde, 4 Non Blondes and yes, Iggy Pop - but she's also totally unique. As is the CD itself. Coming Out Electric will suprise you, delight you and send you on a cosmic whirlwind of luxurious sound. Yummy!

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Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby Dorothy Ashby Manufacturer: Dusty Groove ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000QFBWLA Release Date: 2007-07-17

Tracks:

1. Myself When Young
2. For Some We Loved
3. Wax & Wane
4. Drunk
5. Wine
6. Dust
7. Joyful Grass & Grape
8. Shadow Shapes
9. Heaven & Hell
10. Moving Finger

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Amazing Records! Manufacturer: Cool Groove CD 103 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0001BEZ6S Release Date: 2004-01-05

Tracks:

1. Cadillac Boogie
2. My Little Jewel
3. What Goes On Behind Your Back
4. Wiggle Your Hips
5. Cuttin Cane
6. Horn Street Bounce
7. Youre Humbuggin Me / Im A Little Mixed Up
8. Sunglasses After Dark
9. You Dont Love Me
10. Me and the Devil
11. The Jump
12. Cmon Lets Boogie
13. Necks and Feet
14. Tag Along
15. What Kind Of Fool (Do You Think I Am?)
16. I Tried
17. Booger Red
18. The Knockout
19. You Did Me Wrong
20. Lets Get Loose
21. Mama Didnt Raise No Fool
22. T-Bone Shuffle
23. Bluebird Boogie

Album Description

Reissue of the popular Texas band's first two LPs on Amazing Records from 1980 and 1981. First time on CD! Red hot rockin' jump R&B with some rock 'n' roll and boogie woogie mixed in.

Average customer rating: This album is the SHIZZNITS Remember where you came from... It is his best so far. Not that good like savage dreams Tight

On tha Cool Baby Beesh Manufacturer: Dope House ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Latin Rap | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music West Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Southern Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Savage Dreams The Ultimate Cartel Velvet City Velvetism Baby Beesh Presents What's Really! Game One ASIN: B000067IQU Release Date: 2002-06-18

Tracks:

1. Intro (Aw Naw)
2. Feelin Me
3. Vamanos
4. On the Cool
5. They Don't Even Know
6. Posted Up
7. Woy Oy
8. Dime Piece
9. Too Many Things
10. Short Skirts
11. Hydro Luv
12. Yesterday
13. On da Go
14. Head Hunta
15. Early in da Morning - Mario Ayala
16. In Motion
17. [Untitled Hidden Track] -

Customer Reviews:

This album is the SHIZZNITS.......2006-01-01

This is by far one of the best albums baby beesh has made.My personal fave is "Woy oy" his beats are the best and his lyrics are tight all his raps match. i know hes not known for beeing with Dope House Records and raping with spm,rasheed,low g,juan gotti,angela perez,happy P, and all those other bad a$$ rappers, but he should be and he should of stayed with Dope house Records. AND NO SPM IS NOT DEAD. THAT WAS A PUBLICITY STUNT!!! FREAKIN DUMB A$$ PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY "RIP SPM" WHEN HE REALLY IS NOT DEAD!!!just had to point that out

Remember where you came from..........2004-01-11

All I have to say to young Beesh is: Remember where u came from, homez... Don't be the next Master P. Keep that bay luv and bay flavor, and REP YO CITY!!!!!!!!! Northpole V-town 3C's DOWN!!!!!

It is his best so far........2003-10-12

Beesh/ Bash has put out three albums so far and personally I think this is his best one so far. Savage Dreams being his first is good, on Tha Smokin Nephew he softens up a lil bit too much, making On Tha Cool his best, combining his r&b flow and incorporating it to his music. Great lirycist, excellent production, no more needed to say.

Not that good like savage dreams.......2003-02-13

If you love baby beeshs first album you will be a lil disappointed of that one. It's much slower than savage dreams but still tight. The Intro is my favourite song because it`s too cold for this world!

Tight.......2002-06-23

I think this album is hella tight beby beesh has graduated to a new level in his rap game. His songs have a southern stlye to them now hooking up with dopehouse records out of houston texas.I think he could of used a lil more bay area style.cruizin and partying "vallejo"?. but beesh has his own style that cannot be duplicated,with this album he raps more about lounging,relationships with breezys and ohh yeah smoking weed. The whole ablum i rated at 5 stars because of songs like ..yesterday,in motion,early in the morning....keep it on the cool....

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2. Darn That Dream
3. Dorsey-Itis
4. Double Dixie
5. Fine Art & Dandy
6. Fire Dance
7. Fish Out of Water
8. Flipped
9. For Duke
10. Full Stride

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