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Self Defense (Never, Never, Land Reconstructed and Bonus Beats)

UNKLE

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Some really great remixes here, saving you the labour or having transfer all your singles and B-sides onto your iTunes by including it all in one package, also has some remixes not previously available. The new track "Blackout" featuring Cure vocalist is actually pretty good so if you where to even just get one track on this album i'd pick that one. I'd recommend buying it off iTunes as the Artwork on the hard copy is just re-hashed Futura artwork that's been pinked out - and a seriously wasted opportunity to produce something iconic, like previos Drury/Futura collaborations and not to mention an excess of packaging - a DVD sized box to house 4xCD envelopes, wedged in by polystyrene blocks? Lazy Design. Unkle completist will want the hard copy but i really do recommend trying out a few tracks on here, until the new Album "The Future is Written" is released later (much later probably) this year.

worth digging through...

Whereas this may not be the most essential Unkle release to date, with perhaps even a dash of quantity over quality syndrome, if you work your way past the rash of "okay but nowt special" remixes of "Reign" (nothing here really tops the original) and "Eye for an eye" (the excellent Dylan Rhymes/Force Mass Motion breaks mix from the single is a highlight) there are some tunes here of real interest to Unkle followers, including "Blackout" and "Have you passed through this night before" which previously featured in the dual, hour-long mixes of Unkle's outstanding "Edit Music for a Film" album. Certainly it's worth demo-ing each mix before you download. Maybe a tighter selection that you could download as a regular album might have been a cooler package, but there's still some decent stuff in the midst of these tracks.

Great value

Really a purchase for those already converted to the Lavelle way, this album looks good on iTunes but has an extra CD if u buy the hard copy, (and u can down load the artwork now anyway!). There are some truly great remixes here, especially the Moby collaboration that I first came across on Edit Music For A Film. The new track is good, but I would've liked the original just for comparison (although I'm probably missing the point). Junkie XL does manage to make his remix just a little like Chichane, but then that's not all bad. Overall, lovers of dark, hard, melancholic house would do well to pick this up.

Biography

Formed: 1994 in London, England

Genre: Electronic

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Experimental hip-hop outfit UNKLE were one of the original artists releasing material through noted U.K. label Mo' Wax, which helped launch the instrumental mid-'90s downtempo breakbeat revival eventually termed trip-hop. Though hardly the label's highest-profile group (at least until the long-delayed release of their debut LP in 1998), UNKLE's members included label head James Lavelle, who formed Mo' Wax while still in his teens as an antidote to the increasingly stale acid jazz/Northern soul scene....
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