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- Artist: Roger Eno & Lol Hammond
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- Release Date: March 23, 1999
- Total Time: 57:51
- Genre: Electronica
Review
This might seem like an unlikely pairing: the composer Roger Eno (who, though he has always had one foot in the pop music world, is classically trained and composes primarily in that mode) and Drum Club cofounder, Lol Hammond, who is known mainly for his work in the sphere of electronic dance music. This is one of those projects that is either going to succeed wildly or fail utterly, and happily, it's a solid success. Eno brings a level of harmonic sophistication to the proceedings that is generally missing from the world of techno, not to mention a contemplative, almost pastoral sensibility that he shares with his more famous brother Brian (to whom we owe the word "ambient" as a musical term). Hammond, for his part, takes what could have been almost soporific keyboard parts and muscles them up with electronic rhythm that never sounds artifically imposed. Hence, the soothing and yet rhythmically interesting flow of "Something Orange," and the slow, swinging, trip-hop pianism of "Hip Hop Flipperty Flop," which sounds for all the world like Music for Airports remixed by Portishead. That's a compliment. You can't really call this music "challenging," but somehow it's still very rewarding. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Code | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(3:00) |
| Damage | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(7:17) |
| Something Orange | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(4:08) |
| Gerrard St. 415 | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(1:03) |
| Sky Becomes a Loop | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(6:22) |
| Room Without Lights | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(4:14) |
| Lose That Skin | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(8:10) |
| Blue Kind of Drug | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(6:21) |
| Kinky Ink | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(4:44) |
| Coming Up for Air | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(:53) |
| Burst | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(4:03) |
| Hip Hop Flipperty Flop | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(5:00) |
| Sky Becomes a Reprise | Roger Eno, |
Roger Eno, |
(2:34) |
