00 - Chapter One.nfo
General Information
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Album: Chapter One
Artist: F&J
Copyright: 2002
Genre: New Age
File Information
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Number of Tracks: 6
Total Duration: 1:02:21
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: 09-Mar-2015 15:56:25
NFO Created: 09-Mar-2015 16:05:54
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Track List
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File Size MB Duration File Name
1 67.84 0:11:36 01 Beginning
2 39.70 0:05:46 02 Perfect Fly
3 83.99 0:13:16 03 Eletfa
4 56.08 0:08:20 04 The Day
5 99.32 0:14:24 05 Hinene
6 57.32 0:08:59 06 Relax
Description
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F&J is a trio of keyboards, bass, and drums, aided on some tracks by samplers.
As one might ascertain from the label this album is on, the trio is Hungarian.
What is of note, then, is that the music evinces Berlin-school influences from
the get-go. Maybe not so surprising, however, when one considers the Cgizlan
Istvan album Seven Gates of Al-Hambra, an ethnic-meets-electronica release from
a couple of years ago that this release very much reminds me of. The samples
are used like instruments, placed in different parts of the bar or combined
use of a vocal sample as an instrument allows new levels of inter-textual
communication, a lengthy vocal sample having something to do with air travel
reference to 9/11, or something else? Regardless of the meaning, the driven,
pulsating pace of this electronica is, if somewhat conventional, nonetheless
engaging. Most of the tracks are not as uptempo, which can make things lull a
of vaguely ethnic treatment (two more references: Talvin Singh, and Cyrille
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