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Fabriclive.19

 
Album Review: Fabriclive.19

  • Artist: Freestylers
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: January 25, 2005
  • Type: Live, Mix-album
  • Genre: Electronica

Review

American breaks fans may not recognize all of the artists featured on this celebrated duo's contribution to the Fabriclive mix series, but they'll get acclimated soon enough. Recording under the name SCAM, the Freestylers themselves contribute two of the album's highlight tracks, the ska-inflected "Killer" and a nice reworking of Johnny Osbourne's "Buddy Bye" titled "Put Up Your Hands." But most of the program finds them cutting and scratching over the work of other members of Britain's breakbeat scene, including Phuture Assassins (whose "Forever" draws heavily on a vintage Twinkle Brothers track), Azzido da Bass (whose "Dooms Night" is presented here in a brilliant Timo Maas remix), and the Breakfastaz (whose "Kick It" provides a forum for some virtuosic scratching by the Freestylers). While everything here has a generally hip-hop sort of feel, there's a pervasive reggae undertone to many of these tracks; sometimes reggae of the old-school variety and sometimes the secondhand type, like the big chunks of Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives" that undergird the Breakfastaz' "Spit It Out." The result is a rich and heady mixture of beats and moods and a program that works equally well for dancing or just listening. Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Boomblast [Deekline & Wizard Remix] M. Dunn Million Dan, Demolition Man, Freestylers (7:10)
Daily Operation Freestylers (2:33)
Midnight The Breakfastaz (4:52)
Killer S. Cranny, C. Sargent Scam (3:42)
Let There Be Light Darren Pearce, Angel Farringdon Freestylers (4:38)
The Bashment Track Baobinga (2:39)
Holding On Freestylers (2:19)
Line Like This Freestylers (2:45)
Broken Point DJ Zinc Freestylers (2:46)
Put Up Your Hands C. Sargent, S. Cranny Freestylers, Scam (3:16)
Warrior Charge [Breakfastaz Remix] M. Dunn Freestylers (3:39)
Soul Surviving Freestylers (2:22)
Kick It Freestylers (3:23)
Bandwagon 92s Jean Corriveau Ed Enzyme (:34)
Forever Austin Reynolds Phuture Assassins (2:33)
Spit It Out Freestylers (2:20)
Fli Bi Freestylers, Teebone (1:09)
Dooms Night [Timo Maas Remix] Azzido Da Bass, Steve Wilcken Azzido Da Bass (2:53)
Time to Unite Journeyman, Freestylers (3:32)
Acid Love C. Sargent, S. Cranny Scam, Freestylers (3:56)
Infectious Edward Davis Freestylers (3:02)
Rock Steady The Drumattic Twins (2:43)
Take Me Away 2004 [Exclusive VIP Mix] Freestylers (4:52)

Credits

Darren Pearce (Producer), Angel Farringdon (Producer), Neico Slater (Producer), S. Cranny (Producer), DJ Zinc (Producer), Austin Reynolds (Producer), Keith Lancaster (Producer), Neico Slater (Arranger), Matt Cantor (Producer), Steve Wilcken (Arranger), Edward J. Davis (Producer), Steve Wilcken (Producer), Andy Bolleshon (Remixing), Teebone (Producer), Ed Enzyme (Performer), DJ Zinc (Arranger), Austin Reynolds (Engineer), Freestylers (Producer), DJ Zinc (Mixing), Martin Buttrich (Remixing), Keith Lancaster (Arranger), Freestylers (Mixing), DJ Mutiny (Producer), Timo Maas (Remixing), C. Sargent (Producer)
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