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Return's debut CD for 5MD references those blurry lines between genres. Somewhere in this washed out space, Future-Jazz, Experimental Electronica, and Recovery Rock all work together to create a focused vision of the future. Flying cars, moving sidewalks, and radio transitions from the moon where the lunar jockey spins flawless mixes of Telefon Tel Aviv, Tortoise, and Miles Davis, Take (the) Metro North and see what we all have to look forward to. For fans of Telefon Tel Aviv, Boards of Canada, Tortoise, Casino vs. Japan, Weather Report, Roots of Orchids. 2005.
Metro North,Run_return,Rock/Pop
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Metro North
Run Return Manufacturer: N5md ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
| Dance & DJ
| Styles
| Music
Electronica
| Dance & DJ
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Experimental Rock
| Rock
| Alternative Styles
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Experimental Music
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000AMUUNU Release Date: 2005-10-11 |
Tracks:
- Aerospace Lanes
- Mercury Ascendant
- Louis James Corrigan
- Okc Dani
- Unqua
- Weights and Measures
- Loge Blue
- Trem
- Our Pleasure to Serve You
- Soothing Syrup
- Revs and Cost
- Talking Balloon
- Animals Are Beautiful People
- Sea Plane
- Remote Sensing
- Unqua Sunset
- Metro North
- Augusta
Customer Reviews:
MARK TEPPO's igloomag.com REVIEW :: .......2006-01-13
(01.12.06) Swirling together a healthy dose of the Compost-style fascination with re-invigorating late period Miles Davis with the vanguard rock instrumental landscapes rising out of Chicago and Montreal, Run_Return is the comprehensive efforts of Kevin Dineen, Tommy Fuselsang and Raj Ojha. For Metro-North, they program granular beat environments, layer warm synthesizer melodies over the top before picking up guitar, bass, drum kit and marimba (to start, they're not adverse to bringing in other instrumentation as needed to build their moody pieces) to fuse IDM and improvisational rock elements into something that is captivatingly organic and dense. It is the work of twelve done by the hands of three, a compression of sprawling prog epics into taut little jazz club numbers that are too carefully constructed to just be unrestrained musical chaos.
"Aerospace Lanes" unfolds like a Lionel Hampton collaboration with Boards of Canada, ripe with vibraphone and skittering beat programming; "Louis James Corrigan" swallows the downtempo vibe whole and we all go down to soft darkness of the whale belly where cellos sing a winsome melodic counterpoint to effusive synthesizers. "Weights and Measures" sizzles with drums and cinematic programming -- the rollicking tale of scientific measurements as transformed into an invigorating epic of robust keyboards and nimble percussion. "Loge Blue" is a demur expression of organic synthetics and marimba, insouciant keyboards dancing hand-in-hand with a tight hi-hat, rolling stick work and a smooth bass line.
Guest guitar work on "Our Pleasure To Serve You" fractures the warmth of Run_Return's typical sound (as if that can be said with a straight face in the first place) with a shuddering cry of jagged strings. Analog synths and the persistent click of the drum kit anchor the song in the warm meadowland of innocent IDM territory, but Andrew Seger's guitar alternates with the shuddering cry of its strings (complete with an echo of bird song which the song ultimately devolves into) or it rolls across the landscape like a pleasing breath of warm air. "Soothing Syrup" is a digital panacea (initially), a bubbling cocktail of programming, drum pads and cut-up vocals. Guitar and marimba sneak into the mix, an infestation which disturbs the virtual fabric of the song with a dollop of organic life. The song is transformed into a glistening array of bell tones, digitized notes which sound as if they are born of mallet and wood but have a sheen that seems too pristine to not be treated by DSP.
"Remote Sensing" is flush with synthesizer reverb and drum box echo, a warbling passage of subway trains that clicks and swooshes past, and trailing in its wake is a banjo melody that seems to be the source of the synthesizer echo (kind of a reversed time loop). The banjo fades into a clatter of percussion and marimba before being dissolved by a swelling burst of synthesizer. It's a song that seems backwards and inverted and yet unfolds just fine in your head. Title track "Metro North" lets out all the stops, a kitchen sink summation of all the tricks and progressions which have been hinted at in the previous sixteen tracks: a climactic flourish of electronics, jazz rhythms and synthesized melodies.
This is the underlying magic of Run_Return: it sounds so real-time, but (time and again) you hear elements which are digitally generated. There is a secret layer of computer trickery going on in the heart of Run_Return's organic jazz instrumentals, a 21st century love affair with the touch of a button and the pass of a filter. I'm not making note of this as if I have yanked back the curtain and revealed the knobs and dials of the wizard's booth, but rather to marvel at the complexity of their efforts. Run_Return have gone beyond such facile attempts of genre marking as "post" and "future" and are simply living in the 21st century -- the world of hand-made and machine-made -- and are making cyborg music. It is the groove of both our human hearts and the machine pulse of our culture. Very nice.
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Metro North
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000BDH540 Release Date: 2005-09-06 |
Album Description
Return's debut CD for 5MD references those blurry lines between genres. Somewhere in this washed out space, Future-Jazz, Experimental Electronica, and Recovery Rock all work together to create a focused vision of the future. Flying cars, moving sidewalks, and radio transitions from the moon where the lunar jockey spins flawless mixes of Telefon Tel Aviv, Tortoise, and Miles Davis, Take (the) Metro North and see what we all have to look forward to. For fans of Telefon Tel Aviv, Boards of Canada, Tortoise, Casino vs. Japan, Weather Report, Roots of Orchids. 2005.Customer Reviews:
MARK TEPPO's igloomag.com REVIEW :: .......2006-01-13
(01.12.06) Swirling together a healthy dose of the Compost-style fascination with re-invigorating late period Miles Davis with the vanguard rock instrumental landscapes rising out of Chicago and Montreal, Run_Return is the comprehensive efforts of Kevin Dineen, Tommy Fuselsang and Raj Ojha. For Metro-North, they program granular beat environments, layer warm synthesizer melodies over the top before picking up guitar, bass, drum kit and marimba (to start, they're not adverse to bringing in other instrumentation as needed to build their moody pieces) to fuse IDM and improvisational rock elements into something that is captivatingly organic and dense. It is the work of twelve done by the hands of three, a compression of sprawling prog epics into taut little jazz club numbers that are too carefully constructed to just be unrestrained musical chaos.
"Aerospace Lanes" unfolds like a Lionel Hampton collaboration with Boards of Canada, ripe with vibraphone and skittering beat programming; "Louis James Corrigan" swallows the downtempo vibe whole and we all go down to soft darkness of the whale belly where cellos sing a winsome melodic counterpoint to effusive synthesizers. "Weights and Measures" sizzles with drums and cinematic programming -- the rollicking tale of scientific measurements as transformed into an invigorating epic of robust keyboards and nimble percussion. "Loge Blue" is a demur expression of organic synthetics and marimba, insouciant keyboards dancing hand-in-hand with a tight hi-hat, rolling stick work and a smooth bass line.
Guest guitar work on "Our Pleasure To Serve You" fractures the warmth of Run_Return's typical sound (as if that can be said with a straight face in the first place) with a shuddering cry of jagged strings. Analog synths and the persistent click of the drum kit anchor the song in the warm meadowland of innocent IDM territory, but Andrew Seger's guitar alternates with the shuddering cry of its strings (complete with an echo of bird song which the song ultimately devolves into) or it rolls across the landscape like a pleasing breath of warm air. "Soothing Syrup" is a digital panacea (initially), a bubbling cocktail of programming, drum pads and cut-up vocals. Guitar and marimba sneak into the mix, an infestation which disturbs the virtual fabric of the song with a dollop of organic life. The song is transformed into a glistening array of bell tones, digitized notes which sound as if they are born of mallet and wood but have a sheen that seems too pristine to not be treated by DSP.
"Remote Sensing" is flush with synthesizer reverb and drum box echo, a warbling passage of subway trains that clicks and swooshes past, and trailing in its wake is a banjo melody that seems to be the source of the synthesizer echo (kind of a reversed time loop). The banjo fades into a clatter of percussion and marimba before being dissolved by a swelling burst of synthesizer. It's a song that seems backwards and inverted and yet unfolds just fine in your head. Title track "Metro North" lets out all the stops, a kitchen sink summation of all the tricks and progressions which have been hinted at in the previous sixteen tracks: a climactic flourish of electronics, jazz rhythms and synthesized melodies.
This is the underlying magic of Run_Return: it sounds so real-time, but (time and again) you hear elements which are digitally generated. There is a secret layer of computer trickery going on in the heart of Run_Return's organic jazz instrumentals, a 21st century love affair with the touch of a button and the pass of a filter. I'm not making note of this as if I have yanked back the curtain and revealed the knobs and dials of the wizard's booth, but rather to marvel at the complexity of their efforts. Run_Return have gone beyond such facile attempts of genre marking as "post" and "future" and are simply living in the 21st century -- the world of hand-made and machine-made -- and are making cyborg music. It is the groove of both our human hearts and the machine pulse of our culture. Very nice.
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Average customer rating: 
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Metro North
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000BTJCO0 Release Date: 2005-11-15 |
Album Description
Run Return's Debut CD for the N5MD label references those blurry lines between genres. Somewhere in this washed out space, Future-Jazz, Experimental Electronica, and Recovery Rock all work together to create a focused vision of the future. Flying cars, moving sidewalks, and radio transitions from the moon where the lunar jockey spins flawless mixes of Telefon Tel Aviv, Tortoise, and Miles Davis. Take (the) Metro North and see what we all have to look forward to. Telefon Tel Aviv, Boards of Canada, Tortoise, Casino vs. Japan, Weather Report, Roots of Orchids. 2005.Rock Music:
- Mirror in a Dark Room
- Moon Dance [Import]
- Mur
- Nature
- No Angel [Import]
- Noevir Cm Hits/International [Import]
- No More Workhorse Blues [CD-single] [Import]
- Odd Ditties [Import]
- Pleasure & Pain [Import]
- Pumping on Your Stereo [Import]
