{"id":483,"date":"2007-03-20T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2007-03-20T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:45:57","slug":"ed-banger-records-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"ed banger records &#8211; volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a compilation that within&nbsp;45 minutes sums up  all that is good and possibly bad about the ultra hip ed banger records  label.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but where is <EM>volume 1<\/EM> i hear you cry?  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>well that was a digital only release that hit the  wire back when santa was filling your stockings.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so, for this real world follow up, across the 14  tracks are all the usual suspects, <STRONG>justice<\/STRONG>,  <STRONG>sebastian<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>busy p<\/STRONG> and even&nbsp;<STRONG>the  klaxons<\/STRONG> in remixed form. the music is pretty much a tour de force of  acidic techno rock-n-roll that will make your hair gel crumble under the  subsonic bass booms, but to make the album a little more diverse than your usual  dance record label mixtape, they have spliced things up with full on weirdness,  brilliance and umm crap.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the good stuff rips holes in your speakers with the  excessive digital chaos that the coked up ebay trawling hipsters love. (those  artworked up limited vinyl releases are pure crack addiction for collectors),  however, i never really felt the love for <STRONG>uffie<\/STRONG>&#8216;s messy beats  and disjointed flow. thankfully, <STRONG>justice<\/STRONG> redeem themselves with  a glorious old school distorted synth overloaded<EM> phantom <\/EM>that extends  the connection with the <STRONG>daft punk <\/STRONG>sound once more but in such a  fashion that the pleasure is easy to let loose. other highlights include,  <EM>stick it<\/EM>&nbsp;a fine slice of electro hip hop casio techno from  <STRONG>dj mehdi <\/STRONG>that doesn&#8217;t feature on the mans forthcoming album,  <EM>lucky boy. <\/EM>and the frankly sensory overloaded electronic noise that is  <STRONG>busy p<\/STRONG>s <EM>rainbow man <\/EM>(not that they could not include  something as <STRONG>busy p <\/STRONG>is the label boss man!).<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>unfortunately, there is one stinker, the dreadfully  dated <EM>eagle eyez <\/EM>by <STRONG>mr flash, <\/STRONG>with a far too heavy  dependance on <STRONG>jann hammer <\/STRONG>styled synthesiser corn, it just  doesn&#8217;t fit in with the rest of the album.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>however, the album then gets back into the  jackhammer beats and cut up digital noise funk with the appearance of  <STRONG>nme <\/STRONG>faves klaxons albeit in very tune free remixed form.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>then just as you begin to tire of the machine  overload, the&nbsp;compilation is drawn to a close by some genius rock-n-roll  with a groove&nbsp;by <STRONG>vicarious bliss&nbsp; <\/STRONG>for the five and a  half minute extended dance workout that is <STRONG>limousine<\/STRONG>, that  seems to start off with a <STRONG>stone roses<\/STRONG> beat, adding the <EM>baba  o&#8217;reilly<\/EM> keyboard loop, and then just layering this up and up with guitars  and more guiatsr in a style that <STRONG>death in vegas <\/STRONG>would be proud  of. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a cracking final track. making this collection well  worth picking up.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>tracklisting : <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>1. mr oizo &#8211; intra<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>2. uffie &#8211; dismissed<BR>3. justice &#8211;  phantom<BR>4. dj mehdi &#8211; stick it<BR>5. mr flash &#8211; disco dynamite<BR>6. krazy  baldhead &#8211; strings of death<BR>7. feadz &#8211; edwrecker<BR>8. busy p &#8211; 49 ers<BR>9.  dj mehdi &#8211; lucky girl<BR>10. busy p &#8211; rainbow man<BR>11. mr flash &#8211; eagle  eyez<BR>12. sebastian &#8211; greel<BR>13. klaxons &#8211; golden skans to interzones &#8211; so  me remix<BR>14. vicarious bliss &#8211; limousine<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/edbangerrecords\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a compilation that within&nbsp;45 minutes sums up all that is good and possibly bad about the ultra hip ed banger records label. but where is volume 1 i hear you cry? well that was a digital only release that hit the wire back when santa was filling your stockings. so, for this real world follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}