International Observer - Felt.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Felt
Artist: International Observer
Year: 2009
Genre: New Age / Electronic / Dub
DESCRIPTION
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International Observer is the pseudonym of Thompson Twins alumnus Tom Bailey, whose love of spacy, dubwise reggae grooves became gradually more and more obvious as Thompson Twins went into suspension and then morphed into Babble, a relatively short-lived follow-up project with his wife and fellow Thompson Twins founder Alannah Currie. Now on his own, Bailey's long-sublimated fascination with dub has emerged completely and admirably in a series of instrumental collections, each titled after one of the five senses. Felt manages to do what relatively few similarly configured albums do: it creates a nicely varied and consistently compelling suite of tunes, textures, and effects while sticking faithfully to the core principles of dubwise reggae. But what really sets Bailey apart from the competition is his ability to take dark, heavyweight rhythms and disengage them from gravity: on "Rose Madder" he does so by means of a very subtle swing; on "The Death of Karamov" he does it by taking a rubbery rocksteady beat and adorning it with a glittering mass of twinkling bells, flying vocal samples, and faintly Latin-sounding percussion effects. There are other subtly brilliant maneuvers in evidence as well, such as the dub version of "House of the Rising Sun" (and a doubly dubbed reworking of that track titled "Abode of the Setting Moon") and a number titled "Binman Dub" that almost sounds like a tribute to Ryan Moore's Twilight Circus project. There is also a hidden track tagged on to the very end, an untitled number featuring layers of acoustic guitar and no dub effects at all. - Rick Anderson
http://www.allmusic.com/album/felt-mw0000828280
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 11 [the tracks are not separated]
NOTE: I just posted the lossless version of this in alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.new-age, and there is a cue file with that post ;^)
Total Duration: 1:01:36
Total Size: 144 MBs (including scans, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: 320k CBR / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 24 December 2015
Tracklist
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01) House Of The Rising Dub
02) Popcorn Slavery
03) The Death Of Karamov
04) Rose Madder
05) Neelkanth
06) Lampedusa
07) House Made Of Felt
08) Mudshark Lick
09) Binman Dub
10) Miss Hit
11) Abode Of The Setting Moon
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