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Music CD - The Free Design: The Now Sound Redesigned
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Music CD: The Now Sound Redesigned
Artist: The Free Design
List Price: $11.98
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Manufacturer: Light In The Attic
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1. redesigned (intro)
2. Where Do I Go - MADLIB
3. Umbrellas - PEANUT BUTTER WOLF
4. radio break (interlude)
5. Harve Daley Hix - STEREOLAB & THE HIGH LLAMAS
6. Don’t Turn Away - SHARPSHOOTERS
7. crossover (interlude)
8. 2002 - A Hit Song - CHRIS GEDDES OF BELLE & SEBASTIAN and HUSH PUPPY
9. I Found Love - STYROFOAM & SARAH SHANNON
10. funk design (interlude)
11. Don’t Cry Baby - KOUSHIK & DUDLEY PERKINS
12. blowin’ bubbles (interlude)
13. Kites Are Fun - MELLOW
14. Girls Alone (Nobody Muzak Mix) - NOBODY feat. IKEY OWENS of MARS VOLTA
15. To a Black Boy - DANGER MOUSE & MURS
16. The Proper Ornaments - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS
17. An Elegy - KID KOALA & DYNOMITE D.
18. light my fire (interlude)
19. Dorian Benediction - CARIBOU (formerly MANITOBA)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0826853001625
Format: Import
Label: Light In The Attic
Manufacturer: Light In The Attic
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Light In The Attic
Release Date: 2005-08-02
Studio: Light In The Attic
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: WOW this is verrry bad!
Comment: I was introduced to the Free Designs music via their
1967 debut album "Kites Are Fun" in the mid-nineties and
they are one of my favorite pop groups. However, the
remix moniker is somewhat dubious. All these new fashioned
mixes are just fragments of vocal and musical parts
cut and pasted to beats and electronic noise. I like re-
mixes that take the actual original song and then add
new keyboard or drum on top of them to give them more of a
contemporary finish. Nothing here is danceable and with
the exception of maybe one or two, they give me a headache.
Very sad, because this compilation is more widely available then the groups actual "original" work." I call it Trance lo-fi at best.
Customer Rating:
Summary: BEST EVERRRRRRRR
Comment: I work at the book store Borders, and one night I found this cd kicking around behind the counter. When I held it in my hands I knew it was something special, so I checked to see how much it was... no barcode? So then I searched the computers... evidently we have never carried this cd in our store? We checked all of the magazines we carried to figure out if it might be a free promotional cd... it was not? Then I called over my manager... try as we might no one could figure out where the cd came from. Eventually they just gave it to me for $12. I don't know why I knew it was so great from sight, but the challenge was worth it. That night when I played the cd on my way home I literally screamed out loud it was so good. Seriously sick. It's so smooth, each song is a little different but the pieces are still unified, I can't say enough about how good this cd is.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Free Design get worked over by scores
Comment: The Free Design were a somewhat lesser-known sunshiney psychedelic pop band from the late 60s, and last year the Light In The Attic label decided to pair the recordings of the group with some of the more well-known artists and remixers of the current day. The idea turned out to be a good one, as many of the remixers and artists had heard of the group and some even wondered how they'd rework the music of a favored obscuro pop group.
The Now Sound Redesigned is the CD release that collects the whole series of remixes and sequences them along with some interludes and other tracks that didn't find their way onto the original releases for a nineteen track, almost hourlong album of mixes that take the flowery group and turn them into everything from instrumental hip hop to drawn-out free jazz. The release opens with an intro track that actually does a pretty good job of explaining the group in a a short amount of time before Madlib drops an excellent remix of "Where Do I Go" that somehow keeps the original track fairly intact while at the same time transforming it into a rumbling beatfest. Peanut Butter Wolf goes mashup style on "Umbrellas," mixing in some Steve Miller Band and other tracks alongside the original Free Design effort for something that mostly works.
The Stereolab/High Llamas (each at times have sounded like the logical progression of the Free Design) version of "Harve Daley Hix," which layers in dense harpsichord and pinging electronics alongside the original, while Chris Geddes of Belle & Sebastian turns "2002 - A Hit Song" into a cheesy 4/4 dancefloor track that somehow works quite well. Styrofoam teams up with Sarah Shannon on the warm IDM-pop remake of "I Found Love" while Kid Koala and Dynomite D work "An Elegy" into a stuttering hip-hop/jazz beast that like the Madlib remix keeps much of the original track around while taking it somewhere completely different.
The Biz Markie-ish re-imagining of "Don't Cry Baby" by Koushik and Dudley Perkins is funny but feels a bit out-of-place on the release, while the Danger Mouse & Murs reworking of "To A Black Boy" completely breaks the flow of the release with its dark production and heavy lyrical content from Murs. Fortunately, Caribou provides a gorgeous, epic nightcap on the release with the nearly nine-minute free jazz reworking of "Dorlan Benediction," mixing melodica, chimes, vocals from the original track, and just about everything else as it feels like a hippie-style jam around the campfire. If you've never heard of The Free Design and are looking for somewhere to start, you should pick up one of the re-released versions of their original albums, but if you've already discovered the group and are looking for some (mostly) inspired remixes of their work, The Now Sound Redesigned is an entertaining little release.
(from almost cool music reviews)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Quite a piece of work!
Comment: I was taken by surpirse by The Free Design - The Now Sound Redesigned. I put this on sight-unseen, completely unaware of what I was about to hear. Moments later I knew I had to find out everything about this CD. This piece of work is unique, special, and different from anything you have ever heard. Listening to The Now Sound Redesigned is like travelling through time and space. The deep retro feelings wash over amazing heavy beats and remixes. It contains countless memorable vocal elements and other hooks, and stands all by itself as a highly evolved effort. This is very "different".
Customer Rating:
Summary: An unexpected treat.
Comment: (...)
"The dated but delicious sunshine pop of a little known 1960's family act called The Free Design just got a makeover from the good folks at Light in the Attic Records, and the result is one of the best, most unexpected albums of the year. Using the lilting melodies and lush arrangements of the original tracks as a base, 21 "now sound" performers get busy reinterpreting, updating, and just generally playing with The Free Design's catalog in a devoted but totally inventive way.
Now keep in mind, The Free Design was a kind of real-live Partridge Family: two brothers and two sisters from upstate New York who formed a baroque folk group that became popular on the Greenwich Village coffeehouse circuit, so their music is super...uh, white. Maybe that's why it fares best in the hands of urban stylists like Dangermouse, Murs, and Peanut Butter Wolf, who furnish edge and counterpoint to all those too-immaculate harmonics... a little bitta coffee for all that cream.
Koushick and Dudley Perkins give "Don't Cry Baby" a super cool urban sunshine sound--like Sesame Street for grown-ups--while Kid Koala and Dynamite D. put down slow beats and scratching so good in "An Elegy," it'll make you throw the phrase "trip-hop" around like it's 1995. Indie types like Stereolab, Caribou, and Super Furry Animals make a strong showing as well, and the European outfit Mellow trip out expertly on a remix of the unbelievably titled non-parody by The Free Design, "Kites are Fun."
Best of all, everyone here steers clear of the overweening irony and camp that has turned so many tribute albums into little more than novelties, and hipsters though some may be, they're too busy taking this gentle music seriously to bother posturing. Who knows? Maybe cynicism had become so de rigueur that it got boring and innocence became intersting again. The music did too."
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Editorial Reviews:
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Three years in the making, The Free Design Redesigned series comes to its logical conclusion. Compiling all three vinyl-only volumes of the critically acclaimed series and including a number of excellent bonus tracks onto one CD, The Now Sound Redesigned features a stellar selection of today's finest music makers. All have risen to the challenge of reworking classic tunes from `60s soft-psych masters, The Free Design. Mixed and sequenced by DJ Nobody (Ubiquity/Plug Research), the group's mellifluous sounds—that explode with angelic vocals, funky grooves, and hook-heavy songwriting—have been clearly pushed into the 21st century. The Now Sound Redesigned contains 13 radical reinterpretations for the club, home, or hi-fi. Highlights include Stones Throw's official beat conductor Madlib, who turns "Where Do I Go" into an Afro-funk celebration. Belle & Sebastian's Chris Geddes envisions "2002—A Hit Song" as a four-on-the floor stomper and Grey Album mastermind Danger Mouse & DefJux legend Murs make their debut collaboration with a wicked twist on the unreleased Free Design track "To A Black Boy". Caribou (formerly Manitoba) delivers an 8-minute free jazz psych opus while the Super Furry Animals and Stereolab & the High Llamas celebrate their love of the group with their trademark sound. Previously unreleased works include exclusive cuts from turntable virtuoso Kid Koala with Beastie Boys/Modest Mouse remixer Dynomite D., Morr Music's Styrofoam with Sarah Shannon (formerly of Velocity Girl), and Stones Throw artists Koushik & Dudley Perkins. Far from being another boring tribute piece, Redesigned's musical testimonials speak for themselves. Everyone involved has sought something deeper than your average remix; obvious testaments to The Free Design's unique brand of feel good pop-psych. The CD features hand-drawn illustrations/artwork and comes housed in a special die-cut Digipak that maintains the high standard of quality that music lovers have come to expect from Light In The Attic. The Free Design has arrived! Please dig in…
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