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Music CD - Sasha: Airdrawndagger
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Music CD: Airdrawndagger
Artist: Sasha
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $9.70
Your Save: $ 7.28 ( 43% )
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Manufacturer: Kinetic Records
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Tracks:
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1. Drempels
2. Mr Tiddles
3. Magnetic North
4. Cloud Cuckoo
5. Immortal
6. Fundamental
7. Boileroom
8. Bloodlock
9. Requiem
10. Golden Arm
11. Wavy Gravy
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0677285472527
Label: Kinetic Records
Manufacturer: Kinetic Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Kinetic Records
Release Date: 2002-08-06
Studio: Kinetic Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the Best Electronica Albums
Comment: This has got to be one of the best electronica albums! The music is always evolving, never stagnant, never boring. A definite aural candy- this is one album you listen from beginning to end. Sasha- your the best!
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Summary: Dreamy Electronica For Those Who Can See Past the Glowsticks and Strobes
Comment: Disputeably, Sasha's most controversial album amongst his fans. Airdrawndagger has Sasha exploring the dreamier side of electronica versus pleasing those on the dancefloor. The album is not a true mixed set when condidering Sasha's choice to minimally blend (and sometimes not at all) the featured tracks. Defintely not for the tastes of all, but should be appreciated by fans who support a broader spectrum of electronica and by those that realise it doesn't always have to be about popping a couple of pills and dancing to an uplifting set at some nightclub.
4/5 stars.
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Summary: Slow & Low (That Is, In Fact, the Tempo)
Comment: A great price for an album that I thought I'd never see again (lost in a move). Do not judge him by his partnership w/ Digweed: Sasha's debut solo is the chillout lounge you go to after wrecking the dance floor, only to find yourself bobbing to the infectious beats with an energy you thought you had already expended. This album is in my opinion a modern classic.
Favorite Track: Mr. Tiddles
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Summary: 5 * and More
Comment: A wonderful album! There are melodies that can put the listener into a trance.
I lose track of time when listening to 'Cloud Cuckoo.'
'Wavy Gravy' is equally a piece where the music flows around you, through you, and becomes part of the air one breathes.
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Summary: Superb electronica
Comment: I have listened to this disc hundreds of times over the years. It is, in my opinion, Sasha's best work by far. This is not a collection of remixed dancefloor tunes. These are original compositions. This is something I desperately wish Sasha would do more often. A few reviewers here that have not loves this album, probably don't like it for the very reason it is so good. It requires multiple listenings. It is complex and mature. It doesn't grab you instantly with four on the floor cliche'd beats. This was my favorite album in the electronica genre for a long time. It may have recently been edged out by BT's "This Binary Uniiverse", (a very atypical BT album which MUST be heard) but I kind of feel that this is an unfair comparison. They are both masterful works in their own rights. I don't think Sasha was trying to push musical envelopes in quite the experimental way that BT was.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Embracing neither the rampant guest appearances favored by the Chemical Brothers, nor the blatant, pop-flavored pandering of recent work from Paul Oakenfold and BT, Sasha's first studio full-length mimics the up-down-up pattern of a classic trance mix. As closely associated as he is with John Digweed, Airdrawndagger illustrates their different tendencies: Digweed is most comfortable with sinister, subterranean grooves, while Sasha is always threatening to float over the dance floor. Accordingly, Airdrawndagger's head is firmly in the clouds, but it's also a clever mish-mash, convincingly melding electro and ambient sounds with occasional four-on-the-floors, like "Bloodlock" and "Golden Arm." Tracks like "Mr. Tiddles" have a warm facility with machines worthy of a Depeche Mode, as Sasha transforms the grandiose, operatic pretensions of trance into a quick and potent chunk of dance pop. The brooding "Cloud Cuckoo" starts off in a similar vein before building itself up into a wash of overlapping beats and sweeping melody that recalls Sasha's Xpander EP. Throughout the record, Sasha stretches himself in the right directions, pulling off the trick of sticking to what he does best while summoning up the creative juice to make Airdrawndagger just new enough to be fascinating. --Matthew Cooke
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