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構成数 |
1 |
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輸入 (ヨーロッパ盤) |
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発売日 |
2013年05月07日 |
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規格品番 |
88725408172 |
レーベル |
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SKU |
887254081722 |
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:55:09
Recording information: Aim Studios; Benga Studio; Britannia Studios; Emi Studios; Mikey J Studios. On his third full-length and major-label debut, dubstep producer Benga walks in many directions at once, and never quite focuses on a pronounced way forward. As a rule, much of this album would have fit on 2008's Diary of an Afro Warrior. There's the spacy, skeletal abstraction of "Click and Tap" that exists outside anywhere dubstep finds itself at the moment. The clattering "To Hell and Back" -- which makes fine use of the lead in Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" and a fragment of the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, both treated to the point of sounding like they aren't sampled -- erupts into a dancefloor grinder with a monstrous bassline. "There Is No Soul" is Benga at his trademark best, stacking colliding basslines, flashy Detroit techno moodiness, a deep blue B-3 sample, and a melancholy, metallic soul that cancels out his title. There are moments here that just seem to retread the work he did on the Magnetic Man album, including the popstep of "Smile" with Charli XCX, or the flawed collaboration with rapper P-Money on "High Speed," which can't make up its mind what it wants to be. "Yellow" makes fine use of Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" and drives home the paranoid angle with skittering backbeats, wobbly bass, and robotic vocals, while "I Will Never Change" is another Benga signature moment and perhaps the set's finest track, with its enormous drops and futurist melodic minimalism. All of the disparate parts on this track shouldn't add up, but somehow they do and they offer something grand. While few of the vocal tracks really inspire, one that does is "Higher" with Autumn Rowe. She finds her way between the punchy drum'n'bass rhythms, spatial and textural extrapolations, rugged experimental basslines, and clattering piano chords. She co-exists with them, displaying an expressive lyricism all her own that makes her at once another instrument in the mix and a soulful standout. Though it's not perfect, and in some ways treads water, Chapter II is simply Benga being himself, trying to wrap all of his various dimensions as a producer together. If it is uneven, that's because there's much more here than is necessary, rather than a sad dearth of ideas. ~ Thom Jurek
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1.[CD]
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1.Yellow
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2.Smile
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3.Click and Tap
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4.Forefather
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5.I Will Never Change
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6.Choose 1
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7.There's No Soul
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8.Higher
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9.To Hell and Back
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10.Warzone
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11.High Speed
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12.Chapter II To Inspire
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13.Running
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14.Waiting
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世界ではモンスター・アクトと化したマグネティックマン、そして先日のスクリームとの来日でも顕著だったように、もはやジャンル云々とは別次元で大箱をねじ伏せるビッグ・アクトへ成長したベンガの3作目。ハーフ・ステップのダイナミックなノリの上をレーザーのようにサブベースと同期して飛び交うシンセ・レイヴ、文句ナシのアンセムとなったヤングマンとのコラボレートに、ケイノやPマネーとのMCチューンのキレっぷり、一晩で数千数万人を相手にする漢の出した答えは実に痛快だ。レオナ・ルイスやアレクシス・ジョーダンでペンを取ってきたオータム・ロウがエミリー・サンデーを追う舞台も用意してしまうのだから、このド派手な第2章で遊べないのは単純に野暮っすよ。
bounce (C)ヌーディーマンタワーレコード (vol.356(2013年6月25日発行号)掲載)
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