OK

My fiancé says i can't be mean and call this Indian hiest music. Althought it is. I don't mind exploring this genre. But it was a tough listen. I wish I had kinder words. But in order to enjoy this genre I need to find something I like so I can explore all genre mates.

1.4/10 I used all my skips for the hour on this album. The concept is good. Execution not great. at all. Only for those into techno stuff with Indian/East Asian fusion.

Like the concept not the execution would not listen again

What on earth have I been listening to? I guess the only positive thing to say about it is that is unique. Really really not my type of music. 1/5

Хуйня поганая какой еблан включил это в этот список какой ебалн создал эту величайшию хуйню

It's like Indian electronic? And now orchestra? Okay the repetition starts to get a bit annoying after a while.

The soundtrack of a field mouse who’s consumed 8 espressos, while floating in space, orbiting the earth.

Jeg klarer ikke sette pris på dette akkurat nå

It seems everyone got an album from a random nobody today from what I've seen. Apparently, this guy worked on Bjork's Debut. It was a nice listen and a 11 minute opening track was interesting.

Nope! Did not like it. Not my thing. At one point I thought I liked one track but then couldn't find it when I went to look for it again. I ended up skipping part way through a lot of tracks at the end. Just not my thing.

Ha, na prvi pogled, I will hate this? Zj k sm wiki opis prebrala je pa odvisno v katero smer bo šel album (60 minut, ugh). Mja, zj dva komada v album - to gre bl v te vode elektronike, which I do not enjoy. Ta late 90s, early 2000s elektronika z miksom drum'n'bassa - ugh. Čist neki druzga, k to včer. Kraftwerk pa Tangerine Dream zvenita outerworldly, etherial, k da floataš in space, kle pa k da je miks vsega možnega, k da si na speedu ob 3h zjutri v shitty lokalu. K un del v The Beach k se Leonardu sfuka v gozdu. S pridihom Indije.

I like world music, but this combination is incredibly irritating to me.

1.4/5 Stars Its just really not for me

Not for me, so close to music I like that it annoys me in places, and then just irritating in other places

At some points of this album, you can actually hear some indian guy getting high.

Not sure if Talvin needs less LSD or more

Not my thang...

How the fuck is something like this in here. It has like 12 listeners

Hell no

Less than OK

ass 3/10

not for me personally, found it extremely boring. may just be my preferences, however was the same as things i had heard before

I am sure this album is for someone, but that someone is not me.

This was a slog. A fusion of drum & bass, Indian classical, and ambient textures that sounds intriguing on paper but collapses under its own weight. The album feels disjointed, overly long, and often meanders without purpose. Instead of hypnotic, it’s monotonous; instead of groundbreaking, it’s grating. Quite possibly the worst album I’ve encountered so far in this challenge.

That was pretty bad not sure who that was for.

He traveled the world for nine months and made this album? I can't even force myself to finish the first song, let alone an hour long album. Brother, this was NOT it.

Good one, guys. You pranked me hard with this one. Seriously, did someone lose a bet?

Awful!

ебать хуета

Another awful random noises album with way too long tracks

Bodenlos belastend.

Was für eine Odyssee, gut gemeinter Stern, aber selbst wenn man das Genre mag, empfinde ich es durch diesen bestimmten Sound als zu anstrengend.

Ok wer hat diese Liste erstellt? Warum ist das hier da drauf? Ich checks einfach nicht...

It's "OK" I like the middle eastern/world influence but it's not really relaxing/grooving OR jamming.

Just...no 1/5

C'est peut-être "one of the best efforts yet at blending Asian sounds with techno", mais jamais personne n'a demandé ça.

Ben non voyons. C'est tellement épais de dire à du monde qu'ils ont besoin d'entendre ça.

1.5

1.5

This is a huge steaming pile of atonal shit

Ei jaksanut kahta biisiä pidemmälle. 1/5.

Is noise

Ugh.

Not a fan, other than a bit of the Sitars.

It sounds like a high school music student laying down his jams on his Casio keyboard at the food court of the local mall

La flemme, j'aime pas du tout ce genre de musique même si c'est original et que ça change, pas du tout ma came les sonorités un peu indiennes comme ça

J'ai vraiment pas du tout accroché... J'ai même hésité à lâcher avant la fin. 1/5

1.5

Great soundtrack for when you’re trying to aggravate an anxiety attack.

Don’t like it.

this was beyond shit - zero stars

I really don't know what to write for this review, I just did not like 1 second of this album

I felt nothing.

I don't find it interesting at all

Didn’t listen

Cirque du soleil ass core music. Fusion restaurant sounds. The music at an immersive art experience. What plays before a new age talk. This never needs to be heard outside of those settings. Why is this one of the 1001 most important albums? What’s the branch it was so important on? This is the worst thing so far. There are thousands of albums not included here so this can play. I would give zero stars if I could.

Wow. Really didn’t like this.

No thanks

Butterfly

When a voice at the beginning of this record declares "the world is sound" over New Age flutes 'n' synthesizers, it's a clear sign that this is going to be some pretentious drivel and *hoo boy* is it. Content-wise, it's little more than repetitious one- and two-bar drum loops with random samples (and flute noodling) on top. Would be fine if it were a demo reel designed to show off Singh's skills with Pro Tools but otherwise has scant entertaiment value.

You know when you watch one of those chase scenes in a movie that takes place somewhere in Asia and it is trying to be hip and get you pump while also trying to be Asian? Now imagine that for an hour

painful listen

Konemusaa joka ei toimi sitten yhtään

I like music from other countries, mostly Latin music, but this is pretty much unlistenable. The twangy sitar and turn of the century electronic beats give me flashbacks to Mogadishu.

one, stop picking bad foreign music, not bad because it’s foreign, but it’s just bad

Pre-listening thoughts: bad gut feeling about this one. Post/during listening thoughts: I was right! This is dog shit! Every song sounds exactly the same! God i hate trip hop. 1/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: HELL NO Fav tracks: nope Least fav tracks: all

Word for my taste, definitely not for night ski

This is the shitty relaxation music they play when you're getting a massage on top of the shitty late-'90s electronica they play when you're watching whoever opened for the Prodigy in 1998. This is fucking horrendous and gimmicky.

< The Beatles Ugh, 2 shit English electronic albums in a row, neither of which should be on the list.

*Ahhh, don't like. Weird mix of repetitive club beats with occasionally a cool Indian or Middle East sounding song/instrument. *Almost entirely instrumental. *There's an 11 minute 'song' - whyyyy? RATING - 3/10

OK without Computer makes a one star album out of a five star album.

Again, not really my cup of tea

Awful, terrible, and horrible. I didn't like it one bit. Sounded like an alarm going off and I couldn’t wake up.

Pretty odd

Not a fan of electronica. As a hybrid of indian styles and electronica, this didn't work. It was uninteresting. Boring. Hated it.

Not OK.

Kom inte ens förbi första låten. Kommer nog aldrig försöka igen.

No

Garbage

This is the 119th album I’m rating. I don't know who this is but winning the Mercury Prize is pretty cool. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Traveller, Butterfly, Sutrix, Mombasstic, Decca, Eclipse, OK, Light, Disser/Point.Mento.B, Soni, and Vikram the Vampire. All in all I liked 0/11 songs. I can't believe that he won the same award that PJ Harvey did.

Электронщина. Терпеть не могу

Couldn't finis - did not hit. V 90s

Possibly the worst music ever recorded.

Well, that’s an hour of my life that i’ll never get back

I would never listen to this again

don't really like electronic music, I appreciate the religious theme but I don't like it 1/5

Background noise.

Nah

Nah

Fusion genres are very hit or miss, and this is very clearly a miss.

No, it's spelled O-K-A-Y.

More muzak than music, and a record that no one needs to hear, not even the guy who made it.

Oof. Indian techno BS. When there were no lyrics I thought, couldn’t there at least be singing? And then when they started singing I thought, holy cow, can they stop singing and just play the music? And then it seemed it would never end.

Jag har god lust att söka upp författaren till boken och därefter slita bort hans tånaglar, en efter en, med tång tills han vet skillnaden mellan bra elektronisk musik och urusel elektronisk musik. Det här tillhör ju förstås det sistnämnda. Det är någon jävla indier som har irrat bort sig i djungeln när han skulle stjäla ris och råkat snubbla på en synthesizer och kommit på den ytterst ointelligenta idén med att försöka göra musik.

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg. DNF Best Song: Butterfly Rating: 2/10 Excellent Irritating Stars: 1/10

Not great. Became tiresome very quickly.

nix für mich

Você definitivamente não precisa escutar esse álbum antes de morrer

Yeah, don't know that I needed to hear this one. I'm not an electronica fan at all, and this didn't help. I couldn't finish it. I hate giving 1 stars, but this is a 1 star album for me.

Oriental techno with breakbeats, interesting, but not my style.

Seems like there's some nice Indian music here, wish it wasn't being drowned out by all these shitty electronics. 1/5

Album - OK Artist - Talvin Singh Release - 1998 Genre - Electronica/Indian Classical/Exotica Ok. 1/10

As soon as the first two seconds entered my eardrums, I knew I would regret the next hour I was gonna spend. I find better stuff on Youtube study compilations. Glad I know It exists and I gave it a semblance of a shot, but ya.... no

I like the eastern instruments used in the album but the rest of it sucked

Gave me a headache

Nah

p837. 1998. 1 star. On paper, drum and bass with Indian influences sounds like a good idea. In reality, it's just a mis-mash of tedious noise.

He successfully takes the neat idea of combining Asian instrumentation with western electronic music and manages to make something truly uninteresting here. Would not listen again. Absolute slog.

Nope

Perhaps in '98 this sounded much more original than it does now... I got bored after three songs

Indian plus electronic music? I don't get it. Doesn't belong in top 1001 IMO

If I'm rating purely on musical artistry or creativity, then sure this might warrant at least 3 stars. But these are my ratings, based (in large part, at least) on how much I *like* the music, and on that basis this one's a dud.

Desde el principio no me enganchó por lo que no terminé de escucharlo. Quizá si le daba más tiempo podía sorprenderme pero no quise descubrirlo. Sin haberlo escuchado completo, opino que otros álbumes mejores podían haber ocupado un lugar en esta lista de 1001 álbumes que una persona debe escuchar antes de morir en lugar de este.

Nah bruh

This annoyed the fuck out of me.

Part of me was hoping that by beginning this project, I'd be forced to rethink my preconceived notions of particular subgenres of music that I think I don't like. Alas, I still don't like drum n bass or whatever this would be. I've enjoyed a lot of Four Tet's experimentations with sampling South Asian music in his electronic tracks, but this is just more shitty, drawn-out 90s British electronica that doesn't add anything to the conversation.

No.

This is what happens when someone rents out a studio and there is no one around to say no you shouldn't. I feel I could have put my time to better use like watching Emmerdale.

This album has all I hate in one. Chants Religous crap Electronic This is a 1001 albums you can deffintively live without listening.

1/5

Not my type of music at all. Didn’t even get through the first song.

This was not a good record for me. Indian jazz mixed with dance music isn't something i'm going to revisit.

I hated this so much. It's two genres I don't like to start and combining them together doesn't make it any better. Even my daughter asked "You're giving this a one, right?" when listening to it in the car. Nothing here was enjoyable for any length of time and then it keeps going on forever.

Oh dear… this is just terrible in my ears. It starts okay, but as it progresses, it just gets worse and worse.

An album to listen to before you die.... this one... really????!!!

Didn't care for it. Too much Indian / Asian influence. Found myself skipping ahead and not completing tracks

Oh! Sitar electronica with a little flute! I’m glad the people who want this have this, but I am not one of those people. (ntm.)

I'll be honest, hearing a voice over in the first two seconds repeatedly saying "the world is sound" is not a great start and puts me a little on edge. It didn’t get better from there.

Sounds like the soundtrack to a Bollywood action movie

NO

It started off strong with 'Traveller', but then got progressively worse with each track. I like that he was trying to incorporate various sounds from around the world (especially the inclusion of the female choirs and some interesting instruments), but the backing electronic/ambient sounds present on almost every track made the album extremely monotone and a real drag to get through. -1 star because it also reminds me of being in a bus/taxi during a holiday where the driver's blasting this sort of annoying music at full volume 1.5 stars

Probably would have been better if I had died before listening to this drivel....

Nothing feels authentic. Just a cash grab. Nothing about this record is required listening. This was all very old sounding by ‘98. 1/5

Instrumental techno

Absolute crap. No melody nor harmony!

Idc. Boring and bad

Didn't enjoy it.

I'm reading reviews that mention electronica (not promising) and ambient, which is code for too boring to be elevator music. It was even worse than I predicted. Easiest 1 rating in nearly 2 years

Not really of any interest to me. Techno traditional Indian.

I did 3 songs and felt I had it covered. Not for me

It was fine, but by the end I couldn’t wait for it to be over.

Sounds like a radio in a restaurant got stuck between stations

Did not enjoy.

Gah i’m sorry but in no way whatsoever will I listen to this again. No hate towards anything however I can’t do an hour of this not even one song. It went on for far too long and i was just - not good.

I don't really have the palate to appreciate this. It's not my cup of tea at all.

Never heard this album before. It gives New Age music a bad name. Utterly pointless. So glad when it was over.

Indian techno

"Experimental\" is the perfect description. This album reminds me of WD2; closer, but still about 38 tries before you get something worthwhile.

Boooo

Dybt uessentialt og periodisk virkelig træls at høre på. Aner ikke hvad det laver på listen.

Not OK

I'm very far from being OK after this listening

If you're going to make an 11 minute sing, make sure it doesn't suck.

Waste of my time. I could’ve died before listening to this one.

This album was always a bit too tedious for me, and I am not too keen on the sound of it either.

No, just no.

So stupid

I can’t with the robot voice

Just American edm with an Indian accent.

Lmao this is hilarious. But it is not good.

yeah i'm afraid this one wasn't for me. i appreciate the effort here - the combination of electronic music and indian music is an interesting one, but i knew halfway through the first track this was going to be not my thing. i can see how this is music that you can get lost in, but unfortunately i don't really get lost in it - i more just get bored. the repetitive rhythms don't do much for me and to be honest, there's not a whole deal more here besides stilted vocals every so often and some muted trumpets (and such). just not my thing.

bi traveller seiter afoch 100 mol the world is sound. ???? de shit isch chli ass? oke jetz machter flötitime und ein ton halte uf de sitar? funni? ha de shit etz viel z lang gfunde. zweite track het seeeehr 90er drums. sehr. sutrix goht no recht dumm findi. mombasstic findi wieder easy ass. decca nervt au recht. tabla scho cool aber näh. light au easy aber jaaaaa eig ass. disser au chli ass als interlude. ischmer alles zu lounge. gar nöd miis. fänds chli assi zum es 1 geh aber fühls halt nuuuull. hoff ich han weg dem nöd alli indisch klassisch musig nöd gern. vikram the vampire au afoch 90s drums irgendwie nöd so cool. nai echt nöd agnehm. es 1 oder es 2 wenni morn gurt gluunt bin.

thalwil singt bruder wieder e stund UHH hallooo chan öppis passiere ussert e pfiffe wo usem letschte loch röchlet ok cool striicher sutrix tönt na cool back to langwiliahh oke decca gaht jz defür aktiv uf de sack hey ja cooli idee I guess und ich chan jz nöd sege dass es schlecht gmacht isch aber es isch die meist ziit entweder langwilig oder müehsam gsi sorry

This is fucking boring.

Not ok. Not at all.

Beyond my small ability to evaluate.

You would have to do force me to listen to this album again. WHAT HAVE I SAID ABOUT AMBIANCE AND TRANCE MUSIC FOR THIS LIST. YOU COULD WATERBOARD ME AND I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET OUT A COHERENT OPINION ON WHAT I LISTENED TO. I AM A BIT DRAMATIC HERE BUT IT IS A 2/10 I LIKE THE SECOND SONG THAT IS IT. WHEN PEOPLE SAY JAZZ IS BACKGROUND MUSIC THEY REALLY MEAN THIS TYPE OF MUSIC THIS IS MUSIC TO FALL ASLEEP TO. THIS IS MUSIC YOU HEAR IN A SPA. JUST FORGETTABLE AND NOT WORTH THE SLOT I AM NOT A HATER it's just not iconic I like butterfly and thats it next

This was very long. And VERY meh.

This wasn't even worth putting in on the background while I did my chores

Really Boring

Different strokes for different folks

so boring to me sorry i could barely get thru a song.... 1.5/5

DNF at song 3. Dude....

Lyssnade bara på delar av varje låt. Låter som att någon snubblar över ett trumset. 1 / 5

OMG i hate this album really nothing about it i like. Discordant and total lack of flow. I hated listening to this. Will not listen to again.

I tried. In fact, I checked out his other albums. But no, it's a no for me.

When starting this I wondered if I would give any 1 star reviews. I can usually see something positive in a record even if it isn’t a style I usually enjoy. Then 55 records in I got this. I did not enjoy this.

1. traveller - 1.5 2. butterfly - 0 3. zutriz - 0 4. mombazztic - 0 5. decca - 0 6. eclipze - 1 7. ok - 0 8. light - 1 9. dizzer - 1 10. zoni - 1 11. vikram - 1.5

Boring

No...

Seriously it's like whoever is doing this is just fucking with us.

One of those albums you put on and know within 30 seconds you don't like it and dread the experience. I did my best to make it through this album. I listened to the first two songs and then parts of the rest. Overall, seems like his take on world music is blending some of the most random stuff over techno beats.

Not my style at all- all of these songs sounded the same

I did not enjoy that.

Cool concept. Bad execution

Not a fan, this was hard for me to get through. I can appreciate the composition but it doesn’t do anything for me.

Hippity Dippity World Electronica. No bueno. Makes me want to smash my neighbor's wind chimes.

Gepflegte Langeweile! Supermarkthintergrundgedudel. Warteschleifensound?

This wasn’t even OK.

*sigh* this is some bullshit. "The world is sound" ohhhh wow, so profound, such amaze!! /s Are we at the point yet where we can admit that the music that really matters and is most representative of our daily lived human experiences is simply pop music? The music that has broad range appeal, that gets endless radio play and imbeds itself seamlessly into our collective cultural consciousness. It's cool to discover new things, but at the same time if aliens came down to our planet and asked the average person to play them the most amazing music we as a human race have, would anyone choose this album? No. I truly believe that no, nobody would think of this first and say "oh man, have I got just the thing for you! Classical Indian Electronica!" NO! I suppose the journey of exploration and understanding how music evolves combined with how artists innovate in the space is what this project is all about, but the constant cognitive dissonance I experience with the concept of "so good you MUST hear it" + "meaningful impact on music as a cultural medium" is insurmountable some days. Today is one of those days. More Stones and Creedence please, less ridiculous genre fusion bullshit for the sake of it.

I was not a fan. It was pointed out to me that it sounds like a movie score. I would have to agree.

Starts off sounding like the soundtrack for a Venice Beach guru cult, complete with gropey hot yoga sessions in a converted shipping container. Cheap, cliche and very posery. Even the cover art looks like an AI prompt. Nothing feels authentic. Just a cash grab. Nothing about this record is required listening. This was all very old sounding by ‘98. There are much better recordings that were overlooked for this mall muzak.

from start to finish this is boring and actually difficult to listen to. when the artist says "there are more sonic territories to explore" I imagine the recording studio must be a personal fart huffing chamber.

I do not enjoy music like this at all

This was a really strange blend of a lot of different kinds of music...

not ok

1.5

I don't know much about this genre, but some things in music are universal. And this is universally crap. I was so bored the whole time.

Sounded like a kid checking out the functions on a keyboard

Le concept aurait pu être bien, mais c'est vraiment "la musique électronique cliché des années 90's", c'est très irritant.

Didn't like

Ik kan vatten wat er hier gaande is en het is waarschijnlijk een van de geslaagdere mixen van ambient/Liquid drum & bass en Aziatisch instrumentarium, maar dit kan echt mijn kouwe kut kussen. Ik ben zeker niet allergisch aan die Aziatische klanken, want gemengd met de juiste electronica, pyschedelic rock of postrock kan dat u echt teleporteren naar een andere wereld. Mocht er hier qua electronische beats/groove harder gegaan worden, richting Shpongle ofzo, zou ik dit op een vuile goa-dansvloer nog wel kunnen appreciëren, maar het blijft allemaal absurd braafjes. Dit hoort zelfs niet thuis in een top 1001 albums uitgebracht in 1998. Neen, meneer Singh, niet OK.

Misschien niet helemaal fair om het te reviewen want heb maar een kleine poging gedaan om te luisteren en het na een paar nummers opgegeven. Dit album klinkt zo enorm 90ies, en dat bedoel ik niet al iets positief. Het was precies de soundtrack van één of andere oude civ-building videogame.

Nope, not my thing.

If I could give this a 0 I would

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: not my thing at all but wasn’t awful Favourite song: didn’t have one

Es una electrónica medio chota, tranqui pero ruidosa. No gustó.

1.5/5. This is pretty unenjoyable (at least I did not enjoy it). A little bit painful at parts. Sometimes electronic music is really good, but most of the time it's like this (hard to listen to).

Skimmed through this one because of the 11 minute first track and I can tell that this album is NOT for me. Long tracks, instrumental tracks, stranger production, ehhhhhhhhh. Favorite Tracks:

NOPE. The world may be sound but I don't want to hear your sound ever again.

Enpä ennen tätä projektia ajatellut, että dubia ja intialaista (& aasialaista) perinnemusiikkia yhdistävä taiteellinen elektroninen musiikki olis oma genrensä, mutta tämä ei ole listauksessa eka laatuaan ja kansi heti kertoi, mitä on luvassa. Josko jossain biisissä olis voinut olla muuta kuin korvissa vaeltava nopea rumpukone.

Ysäri delivers: kumean kolkkoa teknisyyttä, jota en kaipaa tähän saati mihinkään päivään.

gets ko yung "concept" pero boring

Hmmm - complete codswallop

I really tried, but I just couldn’t get into it

Highlights: Sutrix, OK Leave Em's: Traveller, Vikram the Vampire Overall Thoughts: If I were a movie producer creating an action movie set in India then I would be all over this album. But alas, I am producing no such movie and I can only imagine getting chased down the side streets and alleyways of Mumbai for so long before I start to lose interest. The added elements of electronic sounds to more traditional Indian music is interesting although I am not convinced that it makes the music any more approachable or appealing. As background noise, which is the only way I imagine I could ever listen to this album again, nixing the heavy electronic elements would have been less distracting and more soothing and increase my likelihood of trying Talvin's album again. It felt like this album just carried on for a whole hour without providing much inspiration or disgust, almost like Singh was aiming to be just OK. Score Breakdown: 2.052 & 1 -> 1.526

Electronic picks on this list are always something like: "Gooberology by DJ Shitass from Newhampfordworcestershireshire (Length: 182 minutes) (Global rating of 2.58/5)" Imagine willingly listening to this in your spare time. Not OK. 1/5

Oh man, this bad. The strings that close out the excruciatingly long first track were my only highlight. The rest was unbearable. I have no idea why this is here. Perhaps I will use Google to find a possible reason because I am stumped.

Doesn't catch me at all unfortunately; already had the urge to turn it off during the first song, and persevering didn't make it better.

OK is not OK. Terrible

Would have been perfectly fine if I'd never heard this

Terrible fever dream

OK: Music to Pretend Your on Hold to.

Why are there so many electronic albums on this list? That’s 2 this week. This stuff is fine for background music at a spa or in an elevator or something. Hardly what I’d call an album worthy of being on a “must listen” list. My apologies to Talvin Singh, as I’m taking my frustrations out on a genre as a whole on this album. But there’s no way any of these electronic albums are even in the same league as dark side of the moon or there’s a riot going on, or anything else for that matter. Congratulations you can program some loops.

Okay, two genres I don't care about put into one album. LFG! That Wiki about it is pretentious as hell and I don't give much credit to "this is great because it's different and they tried really, really hard." -Traveller- (We initially queued up a Led Zeppelin song accidentally and were VERY confused and were like, "this is unexpected and great, but WTF does he sound like Robert Plant?") Bryant: The world is sound. Got it. Bill doesn't mind this. The beats kicked in and Bill is less impressed. This guy does NOT sound like Robert Plant. I'm not sure if the world is still sound, but there's a lot of flute. 8 min in and I could use a snack. But not too much, we've still got a long way to go. Boom! Orchestra out of left field. Erica: And more flute, good, that's the one thing this song was lacking. I was hoping they'd throw it my way. -Butterfly- Erica: "This one kinda slaps. (2 sec later) This guy needs to travel to places with less flute. (2 sec later) starts dancing" She likes the "mandoliny thing". Bryant: 2 songs in and this one is my favorite on the album so far. -Sutrix- Bryant: I really hope this is Indian for "the world is sound" Erica: It sounds like she's saying milky something Bryant: Milky butt. Erica: If you're going to say one phrase over and over again, make sure it doesn't sound like milky butt in someone else's language. Both: Giggles every time she says milky butt. Bryant: Someone got a pan flute for Ramadan, awesome. The dude at the end just realized they were saying Milky Butt, maybe that was the start of the next one. Going into song three looking for a new favorite on the album. -Mombasstic- Bryant: I'm not on enough acid to enjoy this. -Decca- Bryant: I highly doubt this is a true story of Ecstasy. That was blessedly short. Erica: That scared me a little. -Eclipse- Bryant: This one seems okay. Very "prodigy". Halfway through the song and therefore the album. This has been an experience so far. Erica: *interpretive dancin* I like the background singers more than the main guy. I like the background on that quite a lot. Someone should sample it and put it in another song. -OK- Bryant: Title track, here we go. Sounds like a synthesized didgeridoo in the background. It's like girls singing over a 1980s arcade. I do not like this one. Erica: This might be my favorite so far. This is definitely the Japan song. It sounds like a fun one to sing, like the girls were having a good bouncy time. -Light- Bryant: Some smooth jazz. Alright. I officially don't get it. That said, this is probably my second favorite song on the album so far. Erica: This is his Pure Moods album tryout. This is good, I was really missing the flute. -Disser/Point.Mento.B- Bryant: Maybe if you have to try this hard, music isn't your thing. Kung-Fu fighting was written as a joke in 5 minutes in the studio and I'd rather listen to it on repeat than sit through this again. Erica: Eats an egg, "those white eggs are not as good, though." -Soni- Bryant: He misspelled sonic. That game had a better soundtrack than this. Erica: Grimace. I feel like you give me any instrument, preferably something I've never played before and I could do a passable impression of any song on this album. But maybe that's an argument for the "you have to know the rules in order to break the rules." Like, maybe a stunt man has to be really good before he can look like he falls. It sounds like they're falling. -Vikram The Vampire- Bryant: Ooh, lasers. Let's be honest. If this came on a playlist while I was listening to tunes, I'd give it the thumbs down and block artist and I'm like 2 min in. 30 seconds of silence at the end. Cool. Erica: By the title, I have higher hopes. The death of an old robot? What am I listening to? This is the 1 at the end of the 1001 albums. End notes: Bryant: With the other ones, even if I didn't really like it I could see how they were influential/whatever. This came out in 1998. The Prodigy had 3 platinum albums by then. There's nothing here that I see echoed anywhere else, thankfully. I have no idea why this made the 1001 anything. I guarantee some hipster gets a hard on anytime this comes up. Erica: I don't understand who listens to that. It's not boppy enough to be electronic dance scene, it's not chill enough to be "I'm high and want to listen to something transcendental." People who take mushrooms and want to have a bad trip listen to it. I think that the point is that the target audience is pretentious fucks who say they like it because it's like nothing else.

Ok but, wut? This album could be subtitled: The Blue Man group takes some Gregorian Monks and the Flute Player from Jetro Tull to a Children’s Museum. Where Trent Reznor runs the Dippin Dots stand. On the way there they run into some Hare Krishnas.

não entendi pq o álbum está nessa lista, apenas mais um álbum de música mais chill, decente mas nada excepcional

Sabe quando aquele colega da escola ou do trabalho te convida pra um programa e você acaba aceitando por educação, mesmo sem ter interesse em ir ? E daí chegando lá você percebe que achou tudo uma bosta ? Mas não quer ser rude e daí quando te perguntam sobre, tu responde: "ah foi uma experiência". Sabe ? Então, esse álbum é basicamente isso, não vou falar que é uma merda só porque não é meu estilo, então vou dizer que foi uma experiência, uma experiência que eu espero nunca mais repetir.

Tråååååååååkigt, enformigt, intetsägande och onödigt utdraget.

Hier kom ik echt niet doorheen. Heel eerlijk gezegd ook niet echt doorgezet, even geen zin in vandaag. Maar ik weet wel dat ik hier nooit blij van ga worden.

Baš mi nije ovo sjelo

Utterly dreadful.

Nope

Nope

Not really sure which of my thoughts to go with so here they all are: This album evokes so many firsts for me: Playing with a sound mixer and the immediate overuse of reverb; The first feeling of revulsion upon finding 93.9 Smooth Jazzzz Beats FM on the radio; The thrill of changing the sound from piano to a dog barking on my first Casio keyboard; The first time I tried blending all the flavors I loved together, like citrus and milk. This era of electronic music has never resonated with me. It simply tries too hard to justify its existence. I wanted to give this album a chance but the sledgehammer subtlety of "The world is sound" repeated over and over again in the first track didn't help. By the time "OK" rolled around, I was trying so hard to like it again. Optimistic thoughts "OK sounds like it inspired Prodigy's Firestarter! Maybe that's something good I can take from this." quickly disappointed once I realized that "OK" was released _after_ Firestarter — the song's inspiration was actually just a cliche derivative. This is what a braided goatee sounds like. It’s like putting Kenny G, the soundtrack from Moulin Rouge, and Seal into a blender and then adding a generous splash of pan flute. Nope.

I don't know... I like electronic music, but this is missing something for me. I'm not feeling it. It's too earnest and kind feels like an imitation of something better, except I haven't heard anything like it before. This is music's version of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. I almost hate the first track. After that it becomes palatable to a degree, but i did want every song to end sooner. So that's not good. I can't say I hate it, but I certainly don't want to do this again. ✔️ I kinda do like Vikram The Vampire, though 🤷‍♂️ Maybe because I knew the album was ending soon.

If (as track 1 says) "the world is music", this album is an overcrowded, polluted and impoverished city. Tradition and culture meet industry, but the latter erodes the former to create an unpleasant and monotonous experience for inhabitants and listeners. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Traveller Date listened: 05/11/22

ass

i did not like this

yeah nah yeah

Sorry, did not enjoy it at all.

Nicht so meins

I could not finish this. It was not an album but a sound collage so it should not be on this list. I’m sure it was difficult to make but these are not songs.

Did not enjoy listening to this. Didn’t find much meaningful music to be heard here. 1/10

If anxiety had an official soundtrack.

Near unlistenable noise. Sorry, not sorry.

meh

sitars and flutes and chanting over a bunch of clicks and pops. I can appreciate the incredible effort that went into producing this album but damn, this is not my thing

So this was half electronic ambient meets world music and half drum n bass where the bass is replaced by traditional music from India or other parts of Asia? It started out really OK with the long and nice ambient track Traveller and then went downhill fast when the album continued with it's weird drum n bass-ish fusion electronica. I guess this gets a couple of points for originality. But those couple points are not enough, since I still hated all of it. Sorry Talvin Singh, but I never want to hear your music again.

Nope. Dazu kommt, dass ich so gar nicht in der Stimmung war für sowas

Sorry

No. Unlistenable noises.

The story behind the album creation is awesome, but this is so weird. Way too experimental to actually sit and enjoy.

Weird noises. Not for me.

Awful computer noise.

It's OK...

No thank you.

Couldn't get into it at all, not really into electronic.

Associare strumenti indiani a ritmiche e sonorità elettroniche l'ho sempre trovato infelice e questo disco non mi ha smentito. Copertina e sound sono da cesto dell'autogrill.

pfff, voor mij niet te doen. Na het eerste nummer kwamen zelfs de kinderen klagen. Snel uitgezet, klaar!

Wat moet je hier nu precies van vinden he? Gewoon ellendig en niet leuk!

Nope

Välillä heräs fiilis, et onkohan tässä sitä jotain, mut jos 95-prossasesti muuten vitutti kuunnella, nii ei yhtä tähtee enempää ansaitse. Ja kesti muuten kolme päivää kuunnella kokonaan...

hm.