| Product Summary | | Label: Matador -- Dna -- | | UPC: 00744861035022 | | Release Date: 3/9/1999 | | Buy.com Sku: 60318565 | | Item#: MYNKC5 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Ape Shall Never Kill Ape - (Cornelius mix, with Unkle) ~ Cornelius |  | | 2. Maybe I'm Dead - (Cornelius mix, with Money Mark) ~ Cornelius | | | 3. Great Five Lakes - (Cornelius mix, with Buffalo Daughter) ~ Cornelius | | | 4. Atomic Moog 2000 - (Cornelius mix, with Coldcut) ~ Cornelius | | | 5. Windy Hill - (Cornelius mix, with The Pastels) ~ Cornelius | | | 6. Homespin Rerun - (Cornelius mix, with The High Llamas) ~ Cornelius | | | 7. Galaxie Express - (Cornelius 69 mix, with Salon Music) ~ Cornelius | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | The work of rising Japanese pop star Cornelius is often compared to the sampladelic suburban b-boy collages of Beck and the Dust Brothers. The connection is somewhat validated by this set of his remixes of other artists, and it's clear that his objects of sonic affection include some of the cream of the sample-age bachelor pad set, including James Lavelle, Money Mark and Coldcut. His aesthetic, however, ultimately owes more to the playful noise of the Boredoms and the lo-fidelity tape-loop pop of early Smog. | | Unlike Beck, who achieves a sort of pop art by playing on the listener's ability to attach a set of personal associations to his source material, Cornelius' approach to sampling and remixing often feels like a therapeutic attempt to process the flood of western pop culture in which Japan has been immersed since WW II. Rather than exploiting western sounds or styles for irony, nostalgia or even disconcerting juxtaposition, the remixes present Beethoven, Beach Boy harmonies and tape clicks alike curiously devoid of context. These elements are reduced, if not to pure noise, at least to sound baubles, sparkly little gems picked magpie-like for the way they catch the light more than any assignable meaning. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/09/1999 | | Original Release Date : 1999 | | Catalog ID : 350 | | Label : Matador (record label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00744861035022 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Mixmag (5/99, p.147)
- 5 out of 5 - "...outright loopiness....a thrash-ska headbanger...jazz bass, jungle breaks and nuclear bombs....pure outrageous sonic delight..."CMJ (3/8/99, p.25)
- "...features eight cuts from his heralded FANTASMA album as interpreted by an eclectic array of inspired admirers, including Money Mark, High Llamas, UNKLE, and Coldcut...a dizzying blur of post-modern pop...worth playing over and over again." |
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