Roni Size Reprazent - New Forms2

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-05-18 rating:
4 1/2 stars
If there was a 'problem' with the original New Forms it was that although it opened a lot of new doors for the drum'n'bassy side of electronic music, it rarely if ever broke out into full-on actual drum'n'bass. It was more jazzy and abstract, often having stretches of build up that would lead into more build up, then kind of nothing... These new 're-licks' are effectively VIP remixes of the originals and they all sound designed for the dancefloor, rather than the headphones/beard-stroking room. For example 'Brown Paper Bag' is transformed from a monolithic 9-minute prog-jazz freakout, to 4 minutes of punchy jump-up (complete with an MC), but it still retains its weird, dark edginess. Likewise, if the original of 'Heroes' was a bit too downtempo and melancholy, here it is turned a pulsating, shimmering head-nodder, and is all the better for it. In fact every track from the original disc seems to have been put through a drum'n'bass blender, and pretty much every one of them comes out smelling of Lynx Java (in a good way). There are also 4 brand new tracks included, the best of which, 'Less Is More', has a funky "70's cop" kind of vibe to it. Unfortunately one of the other new tracks 'Don't Hold Back' lets the album down a bit with it's nasty Pendulum-esque anthemic 'rock' feel...fortunately it's under 3 minutes long. As with the original New Forms, this 2008 revamped version concludes with 'Destination' which once again is turned from an "almost"-D'n'B track into a bona-fide drum'n'bass classic, and is better than the original. There's other stuff I wanted to point out but that would mean an even longer review, basically this CD is really good and a definite purchase for any D'n'B fan. 4.5/*****


review by: bezerina date: 2008-05-17 rating:
On old favourite with an edgy update
I heard this in a record store and I knew it was New Forms, but not as I knew it. I had to go and ask what it was because I thought I was going a bit crazy that it was so familiar yet had all these extra sounds that I'd never heard before. If you love New Forms (the original) this is an exciting update and doesn't disappoint. New Forms is still brilliant, but this one has more layers, new baselines and textures - and it sounds great. I'm not sure I would have bought it, had I not heard it, but it is very very good.

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