Wide Angle

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共22首歌曲

艺人: Hybrid
语种: 英语
厂牌: Kinetic
发行时间: 2000年09月19日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by John Bush

Though the late '90s witnessed the advent of dozens of progressive-trance DJs and producers, few attempted to record a production LP. They preferred instead to release scads of mix albums, most of which purported to take listeners on a journey but did little more than offer frequent breakdowns and same-sounding tracks. Finally, the British team Hybrid delivered the goods with their full-length debut Wide Angle. Befitting the cinematic nod in the title, Hybrid often bedrocks their productions with film-music flourishes indebted both to traditional orchestration and the rock-based John Barry school of soundtracking; even when they're spinning through futuristic, warped trance with a roster of cutting-edge effects to impress even the most callused Global Underground fan, there's an undeniably cinematic grandeur to these productions. Hybrid utilizes slow-moving strings and gradually building chords, straight out of Gorecki's &Symphony No. 3& but surprisingly effective in this context. They also do well with collaborations, recruiting Julee Cruise for three beautiful tracks, the album highlights &I Know,& &If I Survive,& and &Dreaming Your Dreams.& In similar fashion to the way Orbital -- another team with a good grasp of symphonic techno -- warped acid house and techno so they'd make as much sense on headphones as on the dancefloor, Hybrid bends the template of progressive trance to fit on the full-length realm, and with equally impressive results. (The American version of Wide Angle differs from the British one issued a year earlier in that two tracks featuring Cruise, &High Life& and &Fatal Beating,& are missing, and three tracks, &Kill City (Edit),& &Kid 2000 (Edit),& and a second version of &Altitude,& have been added. The tracks also seem to have been mixed and edited differently.)

Wide Angle

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