Search - Roni Size, Reprazent :: New Forms

D. P. (MusicMan) from NEW YORK, NY
Reviewed on 5/7/2008...

2 Discs

DISC 1 TRACKS:
1. Railing
2. Brown Paper Bag
3. New Forms
4. Let's Get It On
5. Digital
6. Matter of Fact
7. Mad Cat
8. Heroes
9. Share the Fall (full vocal mix)
10. Watching Windows
11. Beatbox
12. Morse Code
13. Destination

DISC 2 TRACKS:
1. Intro
2. Hi-Potent
3. Trust Me
4. Change My Life
5. Share the Fall
6. Down
7. Jazz
8. Hot Stuff
9. Ballet Dance

Amazing

F. Hoffmann | Toronto CA | 04/07/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

""New Forms" was, is, and always will be the best Drum N Bass album out there.



Its not easy listening, its not very dancable, it is just pure music, and - I am afraid it sounds cheesy - it is really art. Its Jazzy, funky, very smooth, minimalistic, and its so subtle that you cannot express its quality in words.



Just let me tell you, you have to spend a little time on it - many songs are over 8 minutes long - but once you warm up to the album, you will listen to it over and over again, and you will find somthing new everytime you put it on.



This is as much 5 stars as it can get."

Changed My Listening

Leyman | London | 04/22/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first borrowed New Forms four years ago with a view to hearing more lush beats driven sounds like displayed in the #8 Heroes track, but without the vocals. On first album listen I didn't get it, the sound, or the form. Left alone for it to settle, on later reflection I realized I had just been taught how to listen to music anew.



Aside from the nice but deceptive sounding #1 Railing (no other track was as conventional) this album struck me after three long borrows, so I now recommend you this double bass jazz step manifesto.



Track wise, I found some parts to be cinematic - # 4 Lets Get It On, #6Matter Of Fact, #7 Mad Cat.

Other times like an epic score - #2 Brown Paper Bag.

I felt it had hype sounding manifesto lyrics like - #1Railing,(`Direct, believe me you ain't heard nothing yet!') #3 New Forms, #8 Heroes.

Into a formulated, and natural sounding blends of jazz step with eerie effects-#5Digital, # Mad Cat.

Killer buildups, and infinite ride through- #12 Morse code, and #13 Destination,

In my opinion very anti-pop, yet deserving of it's hype.

In short a new form.



Of all tunes most notably #6 Matter Of Fact, I found as the plethora point. A python of a song which sounds to me like an invite into the never ending openings of Roni sizes/reprezent Pandora's box. No preparation is enough for this one.



Some people have described Roni's album as a mantra- with its ever-cycling repetition of beats, which can never truly be absorbed by just a few listens. I think Roni Size's/Reprazent New Forms especially disc2 (Roni's own cerebral suite?) has the potential of a lifetime of listens. With the result that the rhythms may get under your skin in such a way that will leave you coming back for more like the track `Mad cat', and `Morse code', do to me ad infinite.

`Change my life' indeed. Leyman

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