OK

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.