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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Spring Heel Jack |
| Record Label: |
Island |
| Genre: |
Electronic |
| Subgenre: |
Drum 'N' Bass/Jungle |
| Release Date: |
January 14, 1997 |
| Album Duration: |
75m:16s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Take 1
2. Midwest
3. 60 Seconds
4. Pan
5. Plates
6. Bar
7. Eesti
8. Roger Tessier
9. Island
10. Suspensions
11. Take 2
12. Take 3 |
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Spring Heel Jack includes: Ashley Wales, John Coxon. Spring Heel Jack's John Coxon and Ashley Wales weren't your typical jungle kids. Coxon was a biochemist, a schoolteacher, and a guitarist/engineer in Spiritualized's live retinue; Wales was a landscaper, a modern classical composer, and a veteran of numerous post-punk ensembles. Perhaps best known for engineering Everything But The Girl's successful WALKING WOUNDED, the duo had in fact been infiltrating the club-centered consciousness of drum-and-bass for years. Working from the sidelines, they experimented with dub, guitars, greased-lightning breakbeats, and the other tonal and textural colorings that inform 68 MILLION SHADES, SHJ's dazzling sophomore album. Unlike the majority of producers, Coxon and Wales truly blossom within the full-length format. SHADES is not just a collection of would-be dubplates, but a cogent and ambitious epic. The album's bass-borne trail leaps from orchestral impressionism ("Midwest," "Eesti") to Ornette Coleman-like free-... |
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