Nu Instrumental

Artist: Inc. Doppler
Label: Favored Nations
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 690897245020
EAN: 0690897245020
ASIN: B0007UVXL8

Release Date: 2005-04-05

Nu Instrumental

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Tracks:

Fat Lip
Fire Down Below
Wicked
Grind
Wrecking Ball
Funky Armadillo
Like Father, Like Son
Starcrossed Lovers
Bring It On
Bumpin' Grind
Five Hi

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Customer Reviews:

Pretty Good - Very Similiar To Satch.......2006-05-12

I've been listening to this cd as background music for a few days now and have to confess its not bad for this type of thing.

I've grown up with this stuff since 1990 when I first heard Passion & Warfare, and grew up with a lot of the Varney / Shrapnel cd's of that era. And with the exception of a few artists most of these cd's fall into one of two categories - The Malmsteen influenced stuff, or The Satriani influenced stuff.

Fortunately this cd falls into the later category and features 11 instrumentals in the 4 or 5 minute category. Style wise, melody takes precedent over shred, and the slightly space age guitar tone reminds me of Satch a few years ago. Fans of Satriani / Balducci etc. should find this all pretty comfortable listening.

Personally I do think the 'nu' part of the title is misleading - I was expecting a lot of detuned Korn / Linkin Park type riffs, but although heavyish in parts its not really what I'd describe as Nu Metal. John 5 was certainly heavier on his cds.

One thing I personally like on this cd is the fact that most of the songs are pretty interchangeable with roughly similar tempos, guitar tones, song lengths etc. rather than some of these albums which seem to be try and show of the artists versality (eg. a few rockers, a blues song, a classical piece, a shred song, a weird one etc.). I prefer to have one style of music explored in its entirety, and for that i'm grateful that this cd doesn't come across as some ego trip, but rather a set of well crafted coherent songs.

Worthy of spending a few dollars on at the very least if you're into this stuff.

well..........2006-01-11

...so the most of the reviews i had read basicly said this CD blends nu-metal with shred. absolutly true. After a listen through once or twice, the satriani influence is quite evident.

The guitar playing is amazing! i'd have to say doug doppler ranks way up there when it comes to shred. maybe a notch or two below satriani and vai. he doesn't start of a song full blast and keeps blazing, he kind of builds into the song. which is good.

My only complaint is that the songs are not all that great. Since i really dislike most nu-metal, this isn't suprising. As i mentioned before his playing technique is really good, but can also be found elsewhere (becker, petrucci, vai, satriani, freidman, etc).

I own about 8-10 pure shred CD's, so to buy this one wasn't really worth it for me.

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