Decksandrumsandrockandroll

Artist: Propellerheads
Label: Dreamworks
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 600445003149
EAN: 0600445003149
ASIN: B000006BZ6

Release Date: 1998-03-24

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Tracks:

Take California
Velvet Pants
Better?
360 Degrees (Oh Yeah) - De La Soul, Propellerheads
History Repeating - Shirley Bassey, Propellerheads
Winning Style
Bang On!
Number of Microphones on Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Bigger?
Cominagetcha
Spybreak!
You Want It Back

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Customer Reviews:

Great CD!.......2007-01-26

My brother owned this and he said I should give it a listen. Being skeptical, I did. I was blown away! There is not a bad track on this CD.

Frog Music.......2005-10-22

This is my 3-year-old son's favorite CD, and probably mine too. He likes the first track, "Take California", which he calls "Frog Music" because of how the bass sounds.

The whole album gets my whole family moving every time. This is groovy, intelligent, fun music. I highly recommend it.

And they played records.......2005-05-02

Big beats. Hip-hop. James Bond. That's the description of the Propellerheads' "Decksanddrumsandrockandroll," a wildly enticing album that mixes dance music with a James Bondian atmosphere. Its crossover appeal and originality are very good, but the raw energy is the icing on the cake.

A cheerful, sputtering radio sample opens the album, before leading into a gritty maze of electrobeats and percussion, interspersed with samples. It's heavy stuff, but still fun. Things reach their heaviest point near the end when jazz rhythms are mingled with deep vocal samples and some blisteringly raw electronic buzzes.

It gets more fun in the second song, "Velvet Pants," a vaguely jazzy song with the constant repetition, "He's got a nice body, he's wearing velvet pants... Send the first kid down, send the first kid down, and they played records."A more openly hip-hoppy sound enters with the pleasantly slackerish "360ý (Oh Yeah?)", while "Winning Style" has a glitzier, faster tone.

The best songs of all are the ones with a distinctly James Bondian flair: "History Repeating" is a wonderfully overwrought lounge-dance song, with Shirley Bassey roaring that, "And I've seen it before/and I'll see it again/just little bits of history repeating!" Same with spy dance-track "Spybreak." But things reach their peak with "In Her Majesty's Secret Service," a ten minute opus that mingles majestic retro with big beat fun, complete with an orchestral brass climax.

If it sounds fun, that's because it is.

Kitschy electronica is one of the easiest kinds of music to mess up, especially if there's sampling going on. Give it a theme, and it's even harder. But the Propellerheads pull this incredibly engaging album with rare style and skill, pulling together spy flair with disparate musical styles -- who would pair funky dance beats with an epic brass section? Apparently they would -- and it works.

The Propellerheads veer wildly from one style to another, sometimes mingling styles. Rather than sounding messy and fragmented, they create densely-constructed, dancey songs. And they know just how often to repeat a sample, and where to place it, just to keep the beats and rhythms from seeming repetitive.

The Propellerheads have yet to create a follow-up to "Decksanddrumsandrockandroll" but this one is enough to keep fans raving. Wildly original, full of raw energy and lots of fun.

Everything is in the mix!.......2004-11-25

When I think of the Propellerheads, songs like "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" which was a bond movie remake and "History Repeating" featuring 60's jazz artist Shirley Bassey comes too mind. Those 2 songs are not what Propellerheads is all about though. Many of their songs are a mix of Hip Hop and dance music. With fast beats, hard bass and scratching. They never were afraid to mix the genres and even if they didn't make any other albums I can think of they stayed on to what they knew and never became too commerical like Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers. "Bang On" for example is a very fast song with rough beats. "A number of Microphones" is a a one of a kind hip hop influented song where they show what kind of sound you can do with the mic. "Bigger" introduces some scratching and awesome computer made sounds. "360 degree's" with De La Soul rapping. "Better" is jazzy while "Spybreak" is another Bond number. Many songs are also beat oriented, semi-drum and bass, or whatever you can call that. Overall a great album with many highlight. Propellerheads might not jabe been around for long but while they were they did some great work. Defenitely something for your dance collection.

Propellerheads straddle rock and Big Beat.......2004-02-28

Is it rock or is it Memorex? The Propellerheads have the trademark Big Beat aesthetic, thumping trancelike rhythms, along with a level of rock intensity. Overall 'Decksandrumsandrockandroll' combines thick heavy backbeats with guitar-vitriol, creatively chosen samples/overdubs, making for a fast-paced relentless sound. This CD stands above the rest of the Big Beat genre, with the same type of free-spirited abandon reminiscent of 70's rock, plucking strands from a wide range of musical elements in typical electronica fashion. Yet this is not some hastily put together computer driven beat-fest, it's musically challenging, exceptional production, demonstrating artistic integrity all in the spirit to create. Exhilerating, hypnotic and rhythmic. Born to run, born to dance, and feel free to imagine the wind blowing against your face.

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