Remarkable Engines

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Disc 1:
#	Track Name		MP3 Sample
1	Remarkable Engines (Intro)		MP3 sample

2	Better Than Something		MP3 sample

3	I Never Dared		MP3 sample

4	Counterbalance (Interlude 01.a)		MP3 sample

5	Twilight Stolen (Feat Jess Chambers)	Jess Chambers	MP3 sample

6	Mangapower (Feat Emma T)	Emma T	MP3 sample

7	Stars And Sky (Everybody Loves Techno Edit)		MP3 sample

8	Look Down (Falling)		MP3 sample

9	Love And Not The Lesson (Feat Paul McLaney)	Paul McLaney	MP3 sample

10	Slowly And Silently		MP3 sample

11	Moving Static		MP3 sample

12	No Limits (Feat Myself)		MP3 sample

13	What It Seems (Interlude b.02)		MP3 sample

14	Fault Lines (Feat Paul McLaney)	Paul McLaney	MP3 sample

15	Fragments Of You (Feat Rhian Sheehan & Tom Firth)		MP3 sample

Disc 2:
#	Track Name		MP3 Sample
1	If I Was		MP3 sample

2	Rain		MP3 sample

3	Oh Fair Moonlight		MP3 sample

4	THe Moment I touch		MP3 sample

5	Areas		MP3 sample

6	Conversations		MP3 sample

7	Final		MP3 sample

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I've had both discs in this album-plus-bonus-disc set running pretty well non-stop for nearly two weeks now (hence the lateness of this review) and I pretty well find it indispensable in my daily life now. It's a definite throwback to the mid-1990s style of ambient-yet-beaty sound, at about the point where ambient and the dreaded trip-hop sound met for a millisecond. And while in a dozen other circumstances that would be enough to make me run a mile out the door and hide under a bush, with "Remarkable Engines" it actually endeared itself to me by being just that.
Tracks like "I Neva Dared" and the Jess Chamber's sung "Twilight Stolen" are ethereal to the point that I found myself just kind of… drifting off into unconsciousness in the middle of doing work, and when I was just 'laxing out listening to them, boom! Good night nurse, don't forget the screens.
The two tracks with Paul 'Gramsci' Mclaney singing (and playing guitar) "Love and Not The Lesson" and "Fault Lines" work delightfuly well too.
Instrumentals underpin this album though, notably on the bonus disc "Movement" of near-classical piano work. But with tracks like "Slowly and Silently", "Stars and Sky", "What It Seems" and "Moving Static", although it does seem lame to refer to them as instrumentals, conveying as they do much if not more emotion and feeling than the vocal tracks.
this album is very New Zealand, I can't put my finger on exactly why, but it definitely is. A great bit of summertime listening and an excellent stocking stuffer. Recommended.

Product Details

Artist: Module
Album: Remarkable Engines
Cat #: LP031
Date: 11/11/2005
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Label: Loop
Usually Ships: 2 - 6 Days
Genres: Electronic , New Zealand
Normally: ~~$34.95~~
SmokeCDs Price: $19.95

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