Track Listing

1. After
2. Dabudei
3. Streets of Istanbul
4. Before
5. Homebase
6. I Guess She...
7. Slowhand Hussein
8. Just You and I
9. Colores
10. Ocean Air
11. Smile
12. Where Are We?
13. Spacewater

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45297 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .14 pounds

From Amazon.com
Already own the entire Kruder & Dorfmeister disography? No worries. The city of Vienna is sending more blunted beats your way in the form of Dzhian and Kamien. The downbeat capital's latest exports are much more than K&D clones, however. This is their own special brand of Sunday morning headfunk. Turkish-flavored tracks such as "Slowhand Hussein" and "Just You & I" open the Outcaste crew's bag of table tricks and let it breathe on the back porch of the Cafe del Mar. The jazz-laced "Where Are We?" and "After" imagine the Thievery Corporation out of their trademark debonair threads and in rainbow wigs and clown shoes. Dzihan & Kamien even try their hand at slightly more traditional pop structures on "Smile," in which an Edie Brickell-ish vocalist trips over a shifty typerwriter-as-rhythm-track beat. Equal parts quirk, groove, and experimentation make a pretty savory tonic. --Bob Michaels

Album Description
Freaks & Icons incorporates East European & Asian influences into familiar, rock-solid jazz-funk and "chill out" structures that, seemingly effortlessly, roll along from start to finish. Couch. 2003.

Album Details
Jazzy House. Quality Funky Downbeat Artist Album. Consisting of Jazzy Hip Beats, Tinged with Middle Eastern Grooves.

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully smooth
The tracks flow effortlessly from beginning to end, without a filler song in the bunch. After listening a few times you will never have the, "ugh, I hate the beat on the this" problem that plagues some lesser-quality dubby bands.

Highlights, after listening to the CD for awhile, are pretty much every song. I became really interested in dZihan & Kamien after hearing the song "Streets of Istanbul," though, which is a good introduction to the CD. "Slowhand Hussein" is also another good string-tinged tune.

These beats are great for studying to or falling asleep - this CD was a heavy part of the soundtrack of my just-finished semester of college, and it was good soundtrack music!

I am HOOKED!
I can't say enough about the funky and fantastic mood that dZihan and Kamien's music puts me in! I LOVE this stuff! Even my 7 year old daughter is into their groove. If your into letting music make your mood, or you just want to just chill out to some groovy tunes, give them a try! You'll be glad you did. Oh, and dZihan and Kamien, if you ever read this, you guys rule! Your tunes have more than saved my sanity in several stressfull situations, thank you!!

Dowtempo beats that keep grovin'
What a great mix of beats. Gran Riserva and this one are two of my favorite downtempo/lounge cds. These guys really know how to mix the sounds up. You won't be disappointed with this one, trust me and the other reviewers that have highly recommended this one. It is a new classic.