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Treader (CD)

By: Spring Heel Jack (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Treader (CD) Album By Spring Heel Jack (Artist)
1   Is
2   Winter
3   Blackwater
4   Treader
5   Eyepa
6   More Stuff No One Saw
7   Outerlude
8   Toledo
9   Pipe
10   1st Piece For La Monte Young
11   My Favourite Things - (bonus track)
12   Climb Ev'ry Mountain - (bonus track)
 

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Review

Spin (6/00, pp.154,156) - 7 out of 10 - "...Adventurous. With their prog-rockish palette....[the group] play with melodic fragments, spacey interludes, and a cinematic range of textures....the most satisfying tracks succeed by moving into experimental no-beat zones..."
Entertainment Weekly (3/24/00, pp.102-3) - "...a series of dark, abstract instrumentals....File under: 'Uneasy Listening'." - Rating: B
Magnet (6-7/00, p.92) - "...Intelligently crafted [dance music] deserving of closer inspection....The duo is best when it uses minimalism to slice and dice melodies."
CMJ (3/27/00, p.25) - "...Its most extreme [album]....creating a musical mood with each cut....providing a new context for drum'n'bass music..."

Title Note

Includes bonus tracks from THE SOUND OF MUSIC EP.

Spring Heel Jack includes: John Coxon, Ashley Wales.

Is TREADER drum-and-bass? Sort of. That opening blast of overlaid orchestral samples has less in common with Goldie or Roni Size than it does with Krzysztof Penderecki and Gyorgy Ligeti. Who? If you know that bizarre choral and orchestral music heard in The Shining and 2001, hold these European composers responsible. In any case, TREADER is drum-and-bas. There are plenty of deep beats and thick grooves. It's just that Spring Heel Jack is determined to push the genre as far as it will go. And, in some places on this disc, SHJ succeeds in pushing it right over the edge.

The title track sounds like it's lifted straight outta the percussion-ensemble work of George Crumb (who, for all we know, could be sampled here). And SHJ's de-constructions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's timeless songs will probably appeal most to fans of John Oswald's Plunderphonics, not to beat freaks. As long as we're name-dropping cutting-edge artists, just look at track ten's title: " 1st Piece for La Monte Young." SHJ plainly wants your feet moving and your synapses... doing whatever synapses do. It may take a few listens to get into TREADER, but once you're in, you won't want to get out.

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