Track Listing

1. Roy Castle
2. Within a Sound
3. Old Fun #1
4. Dauphine
5. Funky Pipecleaner
6. Iced Jem
7. Phiesope
8. Mr. Angry
9. Melancho
10. Pine Effect
11. Problematic
12. Green Crumble

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85666 in Music
• Released on: 1999-05-27
• Number of discs: 1

Album Details
English Version Containing a Bonus Track : The Wailing Song

Customer Reviews

I 1st heard the song"Phiesope" playing in a record store.
When I was Dj ing for a living I would frequent record stores every week looking for music for my set and personal collection. The song "Phiesope" which is track 7 on this disc, came on over the store speakers. I went up to the counter and asked "who is this? It turned out to be u-ziq. I bought it that day and incorperated the song "Phiesope" into my Dj set, usually at the beggining of the night to ease my crowd into a dance mood. The song is so well done with is guitar strumming and total heavy "shoegaze/manchester" beat. I love this song and really enjoy others on the record. They are trax 1,2,3,7, and even track 8 "Mr. Angry" which features a heavy beat with this trippy grandfather clock chime timed into the beat. There is this dude screaming which under the right mood, or circumstance can kinda scare you. But it is a original song. I got the chance to see U-ziq perform live twice. Once in Hollywood and once at the Coachella Fest in Indio CA. He is very talented and I am a big fan! You should get this cd! PK

One of my favorite µ-ziq albums
The first track on this album "Roy Castle" just blew me away. I've probably listened to it more than any other µ-ziq song ever, it just has that ambient, computer, video game type beauty to it. The rest of the album is also good, with some annoying tracks like "Mr. Angry". My only disapoitment is that none of the other tracks come close to the beauty of the first one. Oh well, still a wonderful IDM album.

Not in full effect
This u-ziq album is slower and more melodic than most, lacking the frentic D&B that's in many of his others. It does get catchy after a while but it took me several listens. The first half of the disc is very warm and upbeat, almost popish. It cimaxes with Phiesope (which everyone else who reviewed it seemed to love), then gets disjionted and keeps me on my toes a bit more. There isn't really a stand out track on this for me. I usaully put it on track 7, skip 8, then listen to it through. I rate it smack dab in the middle of the U-Ziq collection, The best of his slow stuff but not better than any of his fast. (Which is better than most so it gets 3 stars instead of 2 1/2). It did disappiont me when I bought it, expecting (or hoping) for it to resemble more closely Squarepusher than Boards of Canada. Oh well, I'm still glad I own it, you'll be moderatly impressed with it too.