I've been listening to this album all week, I just got it as a promo and
remembered that the track " charles "( trk 12 ) was on a compilation
called Pop Fiction released early in 97. the comp while being real good
and having a version of Manna's " Our Heaven " that rules, made me look
for a full length by beanfield. I was sceptical at first because on the
cd itslelf and the cover it said " Music to Rave about " so i was
frightened, but my fears were quickly killed. its a good album, very
smooth, beat ridden, great to drive to..and so on.. not my album of the
year but a cool album none the less.
bb.
On Wed, 13 May 1998, David Hodgson wrote:
quoted 15 lines hmm - i love this album - even though the cover is really ugly. It's been
> hmm - i love this album - even though the cover is really ugly. It's been
> licensed to Streetbeat ( http://www.streetbeatrecords.com )and now has a US
> domestic release - after i'd been trying to find it for the last 4 months...
>
> what's it like? well track 12 sums it up pretty well - this is made up of a
> loop from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" ( which i'd have thought everyone
> on the list should own ;-) and what sounds like the theme from Twin Peaks.
> It sounds gorgeous.
>
> The whole album is really funky - feels quite laidback - even though several
> of the tracks are pretty fast - quite poppy - several of the tracks have
> vocals (vocodered), it's all melodic. Pretty eclectic set of stuff - a bit
> of jungle, some house, some funk, some electro, some trip hop ( i hate that
> term ). Lots of analogue squelch
>