All Systems Gone

Artist: Presence
Label: Ark 21
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 618681005025
EAN: 0618681005025
ASIN: B0000457F7

Release Date: 2000-01-25

All Systems Gone

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Tracks:

Future Love
This Is You
Been 2 Long
Matter Of Fact
Your Spirit
Keeping Count
Sense Of Danger
Favour Nothing
The Strength (Within)
Better Day
Far Far Away From My Heart

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Customer Reviews:

Another piece for your mind.......2004-03-26

I am a big fan of HedKandi and all things created under their "chillout" blankets. When I heard "far far away..." I was mesmerised. Already a fan of naked productions and listening to blue six almost every day i went to my LOCAL INDEPENDENT CD SHOP and found presence under a heap of blue and westlife in the bargain bin. I then cleaned the filth off the cd box and listened to it. In basic terms of "style" it is similar to the naked productions of Blue Six, Miguel Migs and Aquanote, all amazing in their own rights. I own them all and ask that you do the same. The final track is amazing, and if you like that type of music, i tell you to download "your place in the world" by space brothers off their shine album. From a fan who likes all types of music- sitting next to me is a rack of cds, they range from Kate rogers (vocals on Aim and rae & christien songs) to sneakerpimps and Lunik. I like good music, irrespective of style and urge you to buy this album, also check out your LOCAL INDEPENDENT RETAILER they'll be more than happy to play the music in the store, if you ask politely! I'm off to listen to Snooze, another wicked group. Leeds retailers are- Jumbo, Crash records, cd (outside the merion center) the place in the grande arcade (they're really helpful) and then there are a couple around there. Check out the Oxfam, its cheap and and got a good selection (Headingly and LUSU)

Totally massive.......2004-01-30

Presence, much like Massive Attack, functions as a collective of artist - like mind, singular purpose, and banding together as comrades by a thriving underground music scene. Sara Nelson, Sara Jay, Steve Edwards, Fiona, Matthew Herbert, and P K Joyce all gathered and contributed essential parts to an original whole penned and produced by tech - house guru Charles Webster. Based on the "club hit" singles - Sense of Danger and Better Day, the buzz word in early 1999 was All Systems Gone would be the first essential release of the year. For what was anticipated to be essentially a "house music" album, this collection of proper songs resembled something more akin to electronic folk/soul. Influenced by the likes of Natalie Merchant and Rickie Lee Jones, Webster's songs strike chords of deep emotion, sublime energy, and curious optimism. Its low key approach threw a lot of critics off course until a few spins could bring them front and center. What they were hearing was one the best LPs to come out under the "electronica" moniker as All Systems Gone was written as much for the head and heart as moving feet and shaking butts. Songs like Future Love, Been 2 Long, Matter of Fact, Favor Nothing, The Strength Within, and Far Far Away From My Heart easily took command of coffee tables and dance floors of every trendy hotspot in London and beyond. Quietly maneuvering through all expectation, demand, club phenomena, and critical acclaim, ASG ground new respect and regard for what a dance music album could be. Subtle washes of sound come and go like tides, deft, soulful vocals belt and weave polished production of substance and sonic appeal. Presence has established many voices - all of them eloquently with spark and fervor. Recognition overdue, Charles Webster moved into that sacred ground of true songsmith. The All Systems Gone album has gone on to achieve what all great ones do - never copy, never imitate, always initiate a true original being born. Five years after this fact I still revel in its growth and maturity. With each spin, All Systems Gone never fails to make me feel that inexplicable, my favorite feeling.

Charles Webster's first album.......2004-01-27

Though it isn't obvious, this is Charles Webster's first album and well worth the time to listen to if you liked his much-better-known Born on the 24th of July. Vocalists including Shara Nelson (vocalist on Massive Attack's "Blue Lines") and Sara Jay (another Massive Attacker who first appeared on "Mezzanine")give the album great personal presence.

THE "PRESENCE" OF GOOD MUSIC!!!.......2003-12-18

Presence's "All Systems Gone" was one of those "chance" CDs I picked up on one of those depression days of mine. When I unwrapped this baby and popped it in the CD player, immediately my mood changed. From the sexy-opening "Future Love" to the ambient "This Is You" to the house grooves of "Sense of Danger" to the empowering "Better Day," I felt the presence of "Presence," and all of my systems were gone, too (pretty corney, huh?). I had never heard of this group before, but I'm really glad that on that very bad day I was having, they made their "Presence" known to me...get it? Oh, never mind!!!

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