Blue Skied An' Clear - a Morr Music Compilation
Various Artists
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Alison | Future 3 | 3:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Waves | ISAN | 6:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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40 Days | Lali Puna | 3:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Crazy for You | Ulrich Schnauss | 6:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Here She Comes | B. Fleischmann & MS. John Soda | 4:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Souvlaki Space Station | Limp | 5:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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When the Sun Hits | Solvent | 3:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Altogether | Styrofoam | 3:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Here She Comes | Skanfrom | 2:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Celia's Dream | ISAN | 4:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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When the Sun Hits | Komëit | 3:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Blue Skied An' Clear | Manual | 5:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Dagger | Herrmann & Kleine | 4:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Machine Gun | Múm | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Summer Haze | Manual | 5:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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My Last Journey (Weather Balloon) | ISAN | 5:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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House Full of Time | Guitar | 4:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Wherever You Are | Ulrich Schnauss | 6:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Fade Out Your Eyes | Styrofoam | 5:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Clijster | Populous | 4:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Stuff | Future 3 | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Discontinued Parts (Instrumental Mix) | Solvent | 4:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Leaving You Behind | Herrmann & Kleine | 6:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Take a Day Off | B. Fleischmann | 5:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Into Forever | Icebreaker/Manual | 5:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Same, Same | Komëit | 4:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Solid Ground | Ms. John Soda | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Silent Running | Limp | 4:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 28 Songs |
Customer Reviews
Misunderstood, like many artistic endeavors...
I'm a HUGE Slowdive fan, and though this album does not attempt to replicate their songs, it IS a great collection of artists who have successfully tapped into a similar transcendent musical experience as Slowdive. Why anyone would come here expecting these songs to be literal copycats is puzzling to me, but that expectation is probably the ONLY thing keeping these other reviewers from hearing the potential in this amazing eclectic collection.
Groundbreakingly Warm Electronic Music
"Blue Skied" was the musical credo of a scene filled with fresh electronic musicians, not an attempt to cash in by covering songs from decades past. The compilation was conceived at a time when most DJs and producers churned out house, downtempo, minimal techno and glitchy IDM. Few people were thinking about Slowdive at the time, but Thomas Morr, founder of the Morr Music label, wanted to return to a more melodic and less boxy style in electronic music, one that hearkened back to 80s synth-pop and 90s dreampop. The idea was to find an unlikely source for electronic music and derive inspiration from it that wasn't reducible to two-bar patterns of thumps and blips. Isan, Styrofoam, Christian Kleine, Solvent, Ulrich Schnauss, B. Fleischmann, Lali Puna (Radiohead's favorite band a few years back), Mum (one of the most popular bands to emerge from Iceland in the past six years) -- if you don't know anything about these quirky artists or their music, then it's pointless to complain they don't sound like Slowdive. You might as well complain that Wendy Carlos didn't play Bach on a harpsichord, or that the Sid Vicious didn't sing "My Way" like Sinatra. Still: If listening to a suite of fractured covers sounds distracting, then you might want to try the first Morr Music comp. instead ("Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey"). Since every artist on both comps has a body of work and a recognizable style, newcomers might need to hear the context before complicating the mix with dreampop refs.
Interesting Listen for Slowdive fans...
This is NOT a replacement for the great Slowdive, but there are some good interpretations here. Not all of it is good, but that's the beauty of being able to download by the song... Some of it IS cool, and if it makes you want to go back and listen to the Slowdive albums, then this is as good of a reason as any... My favorites were Alison by Future 3, 40 Days by Lali Puna, and both versions of Here She Comes.
