Simply brain spanking. Owned this album for quite a while now, thought it deserved my compliments. Since it created its own genres, Making Bones has yet to be beaten in its category. Such a shame Red Snapepr have split up.
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This was the first Snapper album I have purchased and since then I have gone back and bought the whole back catalogue.
From its disturbing intro track that creates loads of atmosphere it moves on to funkier beats with 'Some Kind Of Kink' and gets dirty on 'The Rough And The Quick'.
This was always one of my favourite mid-90s albums, but it was more or less overlooked at the time, and even now I don't think Red Snapper have ever been particularly well-known. This is a pity, because Prince Blimey is a superb album. Its organic blend of jazz, funk, ambient and mid-90s break-beats has aged extremely well indeed, and, despite being a predominantly instrumental album, it deserves to be ranked alongside sample-heavy classics of the era such as Exit Planet Dust, Maxinquaye and Endtroducing DJ Shadow.
Despite the fact that the tracks are quite sparse- structured around Ali Friend's throbbing double bass and Richard Thair's stridently funky drumming- the smoky, atmospheric sound is both varied and textured, through ... Read More:
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Superb collection of songs - if you like cinematic orchestra, anything off the tru thoughts label, jazzy electronica of any sort....you're gonna love this.
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Red Snapper's unusually effective mix of acoustic double bass & drum riffs with club techno/electronica made them one of the most original acid-jazz groups of the last 10 years. Highly adventurous, often genuinely exciting, and occasionally bizarre, all of their albums deliver but this, their last, is something special.
Superficially a posthumous compilation of seven "left overs", a couple of live tracks and a previously hard to find remix, it bears all the hallmarks of a "let's tie-up the loose ends up - for dedicated fans only" release. But, it's not... for, despite its unpromising credentials, it is in fact a cohesive and quite brilliant soundscape of everything that made Red Snapper so good. All of the new songs ... Read More:
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Red Snapper's unusually effective mix of acoustic double bass & drum riffs with club techno/electronica made them one of the most original acid-jazz groups of the last 10 years. Highly adventurous, often genuinely exciting, and occasionally bizarre, all of their albums deliver but this, their last, is something special.
Superficially a posthumous compilation of seven "left overs", a couple of live tracks and a previously hard to find remix, it bears all the hallmarks of a "let's tie-up the loose ends up - for dedicated fans only" release. But, it's not... for, despite its unpromising credentials, it is in fact a cohesive and quite brilliant soundscape of everything that made Red Snapper so good. All of the new songs ... Read More:
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Simply brain spanking. Owned this album for quite a while now, thought it deserved my compliments. Since it created its own genres, Making Bones has yet to be beaten in its category. Such a shame Red Snapepr have split up.
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This was the first Snapper album I have purchased and since then I have gone back and bought the whole back catalogue.
From its disturbing intro track that creates loads of atmosphere it moves on to funkier beats with 'Some Kind Of Kink' and gets dirty on 'The Rough And The Quick'.
This was the first Snapper album I have purchased and since then I have gone back and bought the whole back catalogue.
From its disturbing intro track that creates loads of atmosphere it moves on to funkier beats with 'Some Kind Of Kink' and gets dirty on 'The Rough And The Quick'.