Reviews (page 3 of 8)
Sounds pretty dated these days, but at least it's not the Shamen of a year or so later when they were churning out rubbish like Ebeneezer Goode. Drags on far too long though. Sorry boys, I can't give this more than two even if you are from Aberdeen.
Man this was not my tune. I cannot happily sit through an hour of electronic VGM/Commercial music. 1.5/5
It proved very difficult to find this album with its original track listing. Thanks, streaming re-releases! Surprisingly enjoyable.
Would give it -10 if I could
At first I thought, oh god another electro beat UK trash record..then I found myself really digging it. Melodic, upbeat and overall a pretty fun listen.
Oh my God I'm so sick of this shit, like really? Does anyone *need * to hear this many crappy 90s progressive electronic albums? They are all exactly the same and they are all as awful as each other, just a full hour (or even longer in many cases) of pointless meandering crap. I'm really getting to the point where over 800 albums in, whenever I get one like this or just any overrepresented era or subgenre, I just don't even feel the need to actually review these anymore. I've said everything I need to say in the many other reviews I've done for albums like this one, and so now I'm just using this an an opportunity to complain about the album choices in the book since this album is simply nowhere near interesting enough to actually give a full review.
Just not my Jam at all
não é ruim, mas é bem ruim...
umas parecem música genérica de menu de um jogo ruim, outras são até interessantes. enfim, nada demais. um pouco longo e eh isso
I don't like EDM, to be fair?
1 hit wonder on here
Just wanted to acknowledge that if this were a U.S.-based list it wouldn’t have all this early ‘90s electronica. I’d be fine with that. Yay, I’ve now heard some old club music that aged poorly! (ntm.)
Groovy. Funky. Upbeat. Strange. Hypnotic. I like it.
hype!
Pretty good? Not the most remarkable but enjoyable
meh
Nja... Inte dåligt men inte jättebra heller... Det blir väldigt likriktat när man lyssnar på albumet i ett svep men några låtar sticker ut: 666 Edit, Lightspan soundwave och move any mountain. Helt ok, men inte mer för min del.
The first track has a Streets of Rage vibe about it, which I'm here for. Like most people from the UK, I'm familiar with The Shamen because of Ebeneezer Goode, but nothing springs to mind beyond that. There's a couple of standout tracks on here which bring the album up, but it does suffer from sounding rather dated these days. I can imagine it was a a fun album at the time, mind.
Ne Langen zit...
Many renditions on move any mountain, the story about the band was pretty interesting to read.
Some classics, but the album isn't great as a whole
Listened Before? N Uhhhh.... what? I'm assuming this was influential in some way but I can't be bothered to waste time looking it up. Pretty not great and dated. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Possible Worlds
Some of the most repetitive banal bullshit. I imagine it’s more painful listening to this than it is just staying home from the rave and snorting pixy stix in silence.
No thanks.
I've never attended a rave and this album confirms I made the right choice. 1.5/5
This is classic rave era music. An enjoyable enough romp but this type of music does eventually just give me a headache. Recognised the singles and presume that for those who went to raves this was a quality band. Like that they're from Aberdeen as innovating from there in this era would not have been easy.
The ’90s rave scene is one I’m keenly interested in, and reading that this is a Scottish band piqued my interest even more. Unfortunately, I found it to be rather plain and quite dated. The lyrics in particular were poor - uninspired, cheesy, and steeped in hollow acid-house spiritualism.
Interesting album, don't like everything on it but it has a certain vibe to it that makes it in a way an enjoyable listen. Too long for its good but some good electronic music. Not many songs I would listen on a random day tho. 1. Move any mountian 2. Possible Worlds: Deep PSI 3. Make It Mine
way too long
You know, I went into this wanting to like this, despite all of the negative reviews on this site, and I did like some of it, but yeah, most of it wasn't good, too long and repetitive at times, fun to be had for sure, but not good. 666 Edit was my fav song and first listen of the album with Make It Minimal and Move Any Mountain being my other highlights
The vocals make this one of the most unlistenable records on this list, the instrumentals make it essential listening in the techno world, the math adds up to a 3.
My wife hated this. I found it OK to work to in the background but not as something I sit and study.
Música de discoteca de los primeros noventa... Pues sí, estaría muy bien en su contexto, pero es absolutamente irrelevante en general.
Sounds like it was made in someone's bedroom, and not in a good way.
I absolutely judged this album by its cover. Had never heard of it but when I saw it I thought, "This is gonna be some techno bullshit." Alas and alack, I was right! This might have been tolerable if it was purely instrumental. I wouldn't have *liked* it, but it certainly wouldn't have been so actively off-putting. I could've put it on in the background and been bored by it, but instead I'm distracted by the dumb lyrics: "Omega Amigo/For you/I always have tiiiiiiiiime..."?! Fuck outta here. And enough with the computerized voices. Kraftwerk did it first, and it wasn't even interesting then. Why is this so long? Is it because it's really actually quite easy to just keep looping the same beat over and over? I don't care! I hate it!
I honestly can't tell the difference between this and the other The Shamen record on the list. At least I think it was The Shamen. There's a lot of albums from this time from the UK House scene that sound very similar.
Listening session: march 9th, while commuting to internship and while studying Listened to before: no Thoughts: I can see how this would be great during the early 90s, but now most of it sounds outdated except for some bangers Favourite tracks: Move Any Mountian & Hyperreal Selector
Sounds like someone just learned the sample track feature on the keyboard
It’s cool they let ChatGPT albums on the list
I have no clue why this is on the list. Is it culturally relevant and I have missed a huge part of the world? It's just not a good album and I made it a bit more than halfway before I turned it off. Instead I listened to Aretha Franklin. Did a pretty good deep dive on her and enjoyed every second of it. Vocal blues at its best right there. She got the range and power in her voice that make you believe. When she's singing freedom you KNOW she ain't going back to that man. Such a great string of songs. Made my commute full of me ruining her vocals as I sang along. Good music. So yeah skip this one and go listen to Aretha. It's a far better experience.
Not my cup of tea
Meh instrumenta music, even for me.
Doesn’t take much to qualify for this list apparently.
One was good but that's about it
It’s a techno relic from the early 90s! It hasn’t aged very well but it does keep the head bobbing. 2.6/5.0
sadly im not listening to this in a nightclub 3.5/5
I give a 5 if it’s something I’ve never heard of but I end up saving the album to listen again in the future. I liked this!
nothing about this stood out. it was just ok
Amazing. Feels way before it's time.
Dafaq is this shit?!? Garbage
Я стойко прослушал всё до конца. Но этом хватит.
Why do I feel like the origin of this album was a 90’s youth pastor listening to the radio and wondering how he can connect with these kids today?
Good, fun dance music! Never heard of ‘em.
Cool
I was in some sort of 90s-rave-hellscape while enduring this undanceable trash. No more please
It does the job, couldn't tell you the name of a single song.
Oh my god, was the motive behind the back half of this album to make the listeners ears bleed?
The Shamen will always hold a special place in my heart. As a twelve year old watching the Daily Mail class getting foamed up over Ebeneezer Goode was Very Funny™ Alas there's not enough chemicals in the world to get me to enjoy this album : (
Fine background music, not one I see myself coming back to a ton
Halfway through the first song, yeah this is gonna be a struggle today. This is 100% not an album that everyone needs to hear. And it's hilarious to me that the same people will shit on this album and praise Daft Punk to no end. 1/5
When I was a kid, I had a PS1 game called Music 2000. It had a bunch of extremely 90s rave/dance loops that you could layer on top of each other. I was about 8. This sounds like what I made on that game, with rubbish vocals over the top. Not my thing - has aged badly. Gets an extra point because I didn't totally hate Possible Worlds: Deep PSI.
If I were to attempt to move any mountain I would seek out the services of a team of civil engineers equipped with massive earth-moving machinery rather than a couple of mashed-up ravers. That said I thought this was alright. The last track Hear Me had hints of Bicep, who are probably my favourite electronic act of the last few years.
Sikke en fest fra morgenstunden. Havde aldrig hørt om Shamen. Meget nice, egentlig, på en meget 90'er-agtig måde. Kommer nok ikke til at sætte det på igen lige foreløbig ... Men meget catchy dance.
ugh me equivoqué y el rant pasado era el rant de este álbum, anyways, lo disfrute, volveré a una que otra canción, pero no al álbum como tal
I pray to the lord that we can maybe get some good electronic albums soon so I can rate them higher :3 it's my favourite genre after all, and this is just sub-par EDM.
Not psyched about dance music but this was tolerable
What the hell was this?
when i was a kid i got my hair cut at this place called "visible changes" in the mall and it always had fashion shows on the tv and always played music that sounded like this
Hmmm this was well done (I think) but not really my cup of tea.
Very dated and repetitive. Move any mountain made me feel a bit hopeful for the rest but unfortunately it was a let down.
Early EDM, not my jam. Too boring and repetitive
A pretty uninteresting 90s dance album. Didn't love it. Feels pretty dated today, but I bet it banged back in the day.
Don’t know the history of electronic music but this one sounded dated, pretty repetitive and rudimentary… but it was okay. Felt overlong, as an album as a whole but also each track slightly overstaying its welcome. That being said, there were some cool sounds and probably some nice samples to be found here
0/15 bekannt 5,5/10 Beste Songs: 666 edit, make it mine, move any mountain
Other than Move Any Mountain, which wasn’t even on the original release, this album is everything I hated about 90s dance music. Call me a fool but i dont see the appeal of music that sounds like there’s a car alarm permanently going off in the background. At best this is music to lose yourself to whilst high in a club, but not to listen to otherwise.
This sounded exactly what I imagine standing in a rural field, off your tits on ecstasy, in 1990 sounded like. Which I’m sure was lovely. Just not something I would enjoy.
Move Any Mountain makes me think of Top Of The Pops. This came out when I was 10 years old and when TOTPs was becoming a weekly must see, and where it stayed until my late teens. The 1990s TOTPs had such a massive impact on my musical taste, introducing me to a lot of bands that stayed with me my whole life (Green Day playing Welcome To Paradise in 1994 changed everything). The Shamen I know solely through this opening track and Ebenezer Goode (sadly not on this album), so most of this is new to me. And my word it sounds "of it's time" - it's so astonishingly early 90s. Sort of slower than I expected, and not particularly exciting. None of the new tracks really stood out, though I did sort of like Evil Is Even. It's not for me. 2/5
First track is a banger and the rest is listenable but definitely not essential.
"En-Tact" is the fourth album by Scottish band the Shamen. Electronic is the lone-listed Wiki-listed genre. The music "fused the band's past psychedelic rock sounds with rave to create multicultural dance music." It was their first album to feature rapper Mr. C and the last to feature core members Will Sinnott. The primary core bandmembers were Colin Angus (vocals, bass, guitar) and Will Sinnott (vocals, keyboards, bass). Other contributors included rapper Mr. C (Richard West), vocalist Plauka Lonich and various remixers and producers. Commercially, the album reached #31 in the UK and #138 on the US Billboard 200 and had mostly favorable reviews. Note: the US 1991 issue of the album was listened to. The album opens with "Move Any Mountain (Pro-gen 91')." (The Beatmasters' remix). Dual synths. Quick beats. A funky infectious groove. It's hypnotic. It's poppy. Angus on lead vocals and Mr. C rapping. The power of belief. The first single "Omega Amigo" has alternating fluttering, glossy and shimmering synths. Electronic beats sounding very 80's New Order-ish. Layered chanting vocals. And robotic Max Headroom-like vocals. I guess 1990 had A.I. issues as well. "Hyperreal Orbit (Real Fade)" gets it going and kicks it up a notch. The remix by William Orbit. A deeper bass synth. Echoing and dreamy synths. A more aggressive beat. There's an edge to this song. Lonich on backing vocals. Do I even need to say it? Sure. Ah, ecstasy. "Make It Mine" the remix by Lenny Dee) adds a fuzzy guitar to the the 80's synth pop. Hypnotic. There's rapping. It's loud. The music on this album started out with poppy synths and dance beats in the forefront. Well, it's OK, somewhere between 80's synth-pop and New Order. It's catchy but kind of lightweight. Then right about songs five and six, the beats get harder, the synths get lower and guitars are thrown in. Now, they sound like their contemporaries the Happy Mondays and even early Ministry. I really started to like the album. I attribute this change to different producers and remixers. There's multiple remix versions of the same song on the album. The lyrics are about optimism and drugs; they keep it simple. This is definitely an album to listen to if you are a techno, electronic music or rave fan. It demands repeated listens for the different song versions which I will continue to check out.
This was fun! Ordinarily I might rate this album lower, because it does carry on its fairly similar and dated sound throughout its hour-long runtime, and there are definitely highlights and lowlights. However, the overall sound of acid house is a nostalgia shot to the veins for me (I blame Super Monkey Ball for that, that game has a killer soundtrack), so I ended up rating it a 7/10 even so.
The reviews on this were a little harsh. Like really y’all? This is the worst thing you’ve *ever* heard? Nothing super special but not a bad listen, kinda fun. Kinda fell off a bit after the first half and I started to get sick of them moving mountains but whatever
A refreshingly different entry on the list. It sounds pretty dated, but the jams are still groovy and head-boppable as ever. I wish they did more of the trippy shit they pull on 666 Edit! Standouts: Move Any Mountain • Possible Worlds • Omega Amigo • Lightspan • Hear Me • 666 Edit
Solid! I can't see this becoming part of my regular rotation, but it's fun, if not a little repetitive.
So dated, it's almost funny; I sure do prefer my hippies behind a guitar instead of a turntable. This one's going straight to the dreaded 'relic of its time where the novelty wears off halfway through the record' pile.
Just not for me.
sigh. I didn't hate it as much as I expected to from the description. But I still did not like it. It's..... giving early 90s but not in a way I want to be a part of. I feel like I should be doing drugs in a seedy warehouse and piercing my nose with an earring back.
It is just electronica. I can not find something remarkable on.
Favorite track(s): Possible Worlds
Uh oh I don't want to listen to this I'll give it three tracks Okay on second thought this seems like completely reasonable background working music to me so long as I'm not paying attention to it too hard. I have no idea why this would be considered an especially good album, but it's fine? Oop had to abandon ship the 666 song sucked and I did not recover
Technical advances make it really hard for electronic music from the 90s to age well. Adding in lots of white guy rap with zero flow makes it even harder.
"I can move any mountain" no you can't. More like Sha-meh
It just did nothing for me. I've been to a rave and I tried imagining dancing to this there and it felt depressing. The music is kinda interestingly layered every once in a while, but the album as a whole made me bounce back and forth between feeling annoyed and apathetic.
Man, I usually don't truly distain something, but I really truly did not like this album. It was like the bad of all worlds. Bad fake drums. Cheesy spacey vocals. Stupid lyrics. What's good about it? I guess it was kind of creative. IDK. This came out early 90s, so it feels like New Wave + Electronic. George Michael meets The Prodigy? But you see, that's a great combo.
Meh. Not my cup of tea. Not horrible by any means.
I don’t think this album has aged poorly, it just exists as a relic to a time for a small group of people. There is a time and a place for everything, just like how movie soundtracks are great, but don’t exactly make for the most compelling listen by themselves to most people. That’s how I feel about this album. I’m sure at a club in the 90s this album went hard. But in my car in 2026, it sounded overly long and very similar. There really isn’t much I remember from it other than the run time was far too long overall.
Rimelig decent meget retrolyd. Noget holder op til tiden
2.5 maybe? Liked it more than I expected but it's definitely of an era
"I can move move move any mountain" ♫. Scho met dem erschte stöck werd sehr schnell klar, us wellere Epoche dass das Albom stammt: us de 90er. Macht vorallem de ganz Sound klar. Dä bestohd nämlech fascht nome us ditigaler Musig: vel Synth ond sound effekt öppe ei, oder grad mehreri Sweeps henderenand. I can Move any Mountain esch debi eigentlech no relativ geil. Es tönt ufgstellt ond esch einigermasse abwächsligsriich met gezielte wächsel zwösche normalem Gsang, Rap ond mängisch au nome t Melodie. Dass Move any Mountain no guet tönt, hend The Shamen aber offbar au gmerkt. Wenni rechtig zellt ha chond das meh oder weniger drü mol vor i dem Albom. Als Progen 91 fascht identisch, eifach chli andersch zämegsetzt. Es chond aber au als Sample i 666 Edit vor. Dä Song esch ned nome e Schmelztiegel för verschenigischti Songs i dem albom (zo de verschedeheit chomi no), sondern au de ponkt wo sech t 90er fascht am stärchste, vorallem negativ, usprägt. Wemmer Musig rein elektronisch erzügt hed das zor Folg dass es relativ köntschlech tönt. alles öbermönschlech schnell ond regelmässig. Wemmer aber scho e könstlech tönende Song nemmt ond ne nomol öberarbeitet, chonds eifach komisch könstlech use. So stockt dä Song zom biispel chli im züg ome, WIE BITTE? Das zerstört de halt au de ganzi Flow i dem Groove enne rächt, wo söscht äbe no cool esch. Aber I guess das esch au gar ned so Wechtig wenns eifach es Rave albom esch. Das merkt mer au rächt im Ufbau vo de Songs ah. Es esch emmer i ganz klari Blöck strukturiert. Dete hed mer es paar täkt emmer genau s gliiche, osser velecht dass andere Text gsonge werde. Zom Rave secher sehr easy, wenn e Block aber länger tuuret de frogt mer sech scho ergendeinisch was das jetzt gnau esch, wommer do losst. Es werd halt eifach langwiilig, wemmer sech z fescht achtet. Was mer ehne aber mues loh: die verschednige Teil send rächt nahtlos verbonde ond send zäme öppis bessers, als sie einzeln wäred. Wels halt för so Blöck nome ändlech verschednigi Möglechkeite ged, die z mache, tönts de halt au ergendeinisch emmer e chli gliich. Make it Mine ond Move any Mountain stäched zwar e chli use wels no e igängigi Melodie esch ond ofne art so erfröschend werkt, söscht verschmelzt aber alles chli i einnere Masse. Das heisst, dass sech s Albom au rächt ziehd ond ech jetzt au froh be, met de allermeischte Songs abgschlosse z ha.
2/5
nah
It was ok
If this made the list I’m assuming Snow and Marky Mark are upcoming selections. More white people trying to sound funky. It’s fun music but not very satisfying.
this reminds me of the techno music they would play in Winx club when they go to the club where the guys have purple hair and they get attacked. also feels like it would be used in the sound track of a forensic show like in the background when they work
Liked more than I thought, the electronica gets old though
I hope they were wearing fluoro and had big hair when recording this album.
Very dated techno. I mean, Pretty Hate Machine already existed by the time this came out, right? Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, and the whole Detroit house scene? I guess this was before the internet, so a year back then was like a week now, but still, it seems weird considering that Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Primal Scream, and Prodigy were right around the corner. Not a lot of very good songs, but after about 15 minutes, the vibe does come together. I don't know. It's not that good but it's still a decent listen. It's the strongest 2/5 I'm giving.
I've never heard of this artist. Almost immediately, I felt pretty confident that this was not going to be an enjoyable listen. This style of electronic music just doesn't appeal to me. I find it boring. And this specific album was like listening to over an hour of static. There's just nothing interesting in here for me.
I want this hour back. I am into electronica/dance music, but can someone explain how this is important or influential?
Just boring, uninspired, monotonous electronic dance music. Amongst the worst included on this list.
Fururistic sound. Psychedelic- rave scene In the right house this would sound really good and mysterious. You could probably rethink life really good on an acid trip in a rich persons house. But I dont care for it so 2/5
If the Scottish youth found a Casio Keyboard and thought he could both sing and rap. This is god awful. 1 star is a gift
I mean, it’s really poor, but it’s soft and inoffensive enough to scrape a 2.
Debated a 1, nothing good about this at all, but it's not quite offensive enough.
Banal
Was ok. Never in danger of a 1
Loved that!
The Shamen named themselves after Len Houmous’ 15th wife, Sharon. Sharon Shamen. 2.3 1/15 Move Any Mountain
I'm not really understanding the hate for this one. Seems like a specific type of 90's techno, but it's by far not the worst thing on here. I enjoyed it while knocking out some work spreadsheets. 4/5
1/5 only because 0/5 isn't an option. That was an absolutely brutal listen. Just the most generic sounding dance music possible. Nothing stood out.
Good album. Better than edm as far as more electronic music goes but I will not be bumping this personally.
This is the music I imagine inspired Jez and Super Hans.
Did not like, weird
Muutama hyvä ralli mikä sai pään nyökkäämään. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
loveeed it, so bouncy, so creative with the sounds, great way to start my morning, good for when you are getting ready
Are you fucking serious. This was rubbish didn’t finish it. ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ is honestly not that bad of a song maybe if it was that album I might have disliked it less.
So much effort to listen to this album. Which made it even more annoying that it’s just a bit rubbish.
What in the BigFishLittleFishCardboardBox-hell is this album doing on this list. Get in the bin.
Some interesting bits, but what is it with electronic music that you need acid to enjoy it?
Fun club music that I'm probably not high enough to appreciate
This album was great background music to listen to while working, walking, grocery shopping, etc. There is nothing truly special or individual about this album, but it was pleasant. My favorite was move any mountain.
It feels like Philomena Cunk is going to jump in any second and make a joke.
this was ok but i would not revisit
THIS is from a very specific time, doin' a very specific thing, because well, listening to the first track I thought to meself "this sounds like that awful madchester band; the Happy Mondays". Oh Robert Dinery, this isn't good without ecstasy you wanker! But, you've also got Magazine on here, so I can't stay mad at you!!
1/5 why is this on the list best: -
Wow did I step into the Matrix? Or maybe Hackers?
Would have never usually listened to this but thought it defo suited a night out vibe. Has a very specific club feel and might listen to again when I’m having pre drinks with friends.
Decent early techno house stuff.
escutei às 10h da manhã do dia 21/01 tdah bateu forte, talvez com uma balinha seria diferente achei insuportável ouvi dnv às 18:33, achei uma merda msm
nah
This is pure psychedelics. My head hurts
Not really my kind of record. Beats were not catchy or engaging enough for me.
i feel like this would play in a spaceship in a 1990s movie kinda like
Not enjoyable. Forced myself to listen. Sounds like the soundtrack to an unknown video game from the 90s
Very happy Berlin
Alien vibe
I enjoyed this! No “Ebenezer Goode” which is their best song and is a “tuuuune!” But a bit of nostalgiac fun. I feel like they sounded dated AT THE TIME somehow. But I never heard the album, only the singles, and it’s better when the tracks have no vocals, as is often the case with the album tracks. Anyway, it sent me off on a bit of a late eighties / early nineties dance rabbit hole which I enjoyed. Sorted! Wicked! Etc!
Not aged well but good that they are in the mix as a representation of that era, more of a singles than an albums band.
So cheesy at times, but I find it endearing. This album makes me nostalgic for the time in my life when I listened to lots of Stone Roses. 8/10
If you like to hear every song at roughly the same tempo, then this is the album for you. If you like to hear an album that R2-D2 & C-3PO would dance to, then this is the album for you. Give me real musicians playing instruments over this any day. This is uninspiring, repetitive, drivel.
Embarrassing but I did make it through.
Album 20 Top 3 favorites off the album: 666 Edit, Progen 91, Lightspan Having hit the club... once? Twice? Thrice, perchance? I cannot really speak to whether I would enjoy this in the club over what they play at the club I've been to. I think... maybe some of it? I'm going track by track now on whether I would get down to this at the club. Enjoy. Move Any Mountain - yes, good groove Human NRG - no, not so much Possible Worlds - for a minute or two, only after a healthy amount of making fun of the lyrics Omega Amigo - no Evil is Even - no, but I'd dance by candlelight in a circle like a crustacean at the next girls' night function Hyperreal Orbit - no, and it got on my nerves Lightspan - weirdly enough, yeah. Sure Make It Mine - yes Oxygen Restriction - no Hear Me - no 666 Edit - no, but it goes reeeeeally hard Make It Minimal - no Hyperreal Selector - no, and this is the second use of "hyperreal" in a title this album... why? Lightspan Soundwave - yes, even though it goes on forever Progen 91 - over Move Any Mountain? Maybe. On its own? Sure Some certified booty shakers for sure, but overall not my jam.
This sounds like nascent era-defining electronica. It's not something I would choose to listen to. I can imagine how this influenced artists that I do listen to. I can also hear samples from music that I listen to. It's lacking a little depth and character for my taste, as if it were created by people with little knowledge or interest in music theory. However, there are some moments where it all comes together for an enjoyable listen.
One "hit" song does not secure you a spot in the Top1001 albums of all time. "Move Any Mountain" is an ok song for 1990, but unless you own it, when was the last time you heard it on the radio, an ad or a movie? The listener counts are embarrassing. Under 100K for most songs, over 30+ years, not impressed. If this is your favorite album, you need to get out more. I wasn't about to suffer thru 15 songs, come on. One-hit-wonder, generic sound for the time, repetitive everything, no soul, drum machines, this was another England-only entry that has NO business on this list. 2 stars only because it's better than Jazz.
starts falling apart whenever the "rapping" happens. when it moves away from that and leans into the house/techno stuff it's much better. 2.5
The people who dropped tabs to this in 1990 are now 60 years old and run corporations. The first half was trying too hard to please and is generally dull. The second half is more experimental and is far more interesting.
Surprisingly easy to listen to even though it's not my usual genre
The extended length worsens a sort of flatness to this record; initial enthusiasm falls off, it stops being fun and becomes a typist’s monotony.
Monotonous beginner techno; you can just play the first minute of every track if you're pressed for time. Bumped up a point for "Move Any Mountain", the token raver on the playlist at every indie disco from 1990-1992 until "Ebeneezer Goode" took its place.
Not a terrible EDM album. Not horribly annoying, but not that fun to listen to. 2/5
Yesterday, I got an album where a rock band tried to appeal to dance fans. I came away from that one unsure of my feelings because they ended up sounding unlike anything else I'm familiar with. Today, I've got an album where a dance band tries to appeal to rock fans. Unfortunately, I don't feel like I'm hearing anything new on this. To make matters worse, this rock fan isn't feeling particularly appealed to here.
Завжди дивувало, що люди свідомо обирали йти в клуб щоб порухатись під щось схоже на En-Tact. Танцювальна сцена в UK на межі 80х-90х дарувала цікаві моменти, але Шамени не з них)
Перші пару пісень є приємна ностальгія за 90ми, але далі це стає максимально нецікаво.
I did not care at any point while listening to this
7/10
Too many mountains to move…
6.5/10
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I’m sure The Shamen are very kind people and I’m glad they’ve made art, but I wasn’t a big fan. Very repetitive and too lengthy, as well as dated. There were some highlights that offered glimpses of a world where this was a better album, but sadly, this is not that world.
Fun album, was really getting into it most of the way through. Some of the songs were a bit too repetitive for my liking but for the most part this was an enjoyable listen.
This type of 90s electronic music really is not for me
3.5 happy to hear some forgotten tracks after all these years.
Was interesting at the time but doesn’t age well.
IDK man, I don't like being a hater but... I have never really been much into the rave scene so maybe I just don't appreciate the art. The rap portions sound like something kids from my high school would make for the talent show. There are few moments later in the album that I can appreciate. Emphasis on a few. I am sure I would appreciate them more with a little ecstasy or molly...
5/10
518/1001
Started out super crappy, but then got interesting, floaty, vibey. Extremely psy as well. Feels dated, but I can tell how this influenced what followed. Without this album I don’t think we’d have gotten Infected Mushroom?
Haven't heard of them before. For the first half of the album I felt like it's just your boring 90s background electronic music. The second half of the album got me intrigued though so ultimately it was quite nice 3/5
Um disco charmoso, porém um pouco falho. Possui uma sonoridade inegavelmente datada, mas que pode ser vista como uma espécie de cápsula do tempo, para quem curte esse estilo de som eletrônico meio rave têm algo apreciável aqui. Consigo imaginar o Jez da série Peep Show dançando loucamente pra essas canções em clubes britânicos imundos. A maior falha do álbum, além de possuir faixa ou outra irritante, é sua longa duração. Um produto da era de CDs, esse disco sofre bastante por ter mais de 1 hora. Ele não sustenta essa duração, e chegando nas últimas faixas você acaba desejando que o seu fim chegue logo. É uma pena, pois há aspectos agradáveis aqui. Acho a composição das faixas bem caprichada, especialmente em um gênero repleto de repetição, as canções evitam se tornar maçantes. Os vocais não são dos melhores, mas servem o propósito de possuir refrões encardidos para DJs esquisitos gritarem, e etc. A instrumentalização sintética cria uma ambientação legal, ampla e fria. Muito material bom aqui, mas com algumas falhas gritantes. Poderia ser pior, mas poderia ser melhor também. 3.5/5
would definitely hear this is at southern nights
I couldn't get through this album in one go. I had to take a break at one point early on because I just felt like I was struggling with it a bit. Came back to it a bit later and listened for a while before realising it was actually inducing an anxiety attack. I'm not sure why, something about the particular sounds in it and the repetitive nature just triggered a panic and had me overwhelmed. I do have an anxiety disorder, so this isn't completely out of the blue, but I've never really had it triggered by music like this before. (at least not music that isn't designed to be frightening) I took another break, and came back later on in the day to finish the last few tracks, so I did listen to the whole thing eventually. I already wasn't finding the music enjoyable before all this happened, so for it to also provoke that response in me makes the rating pretty easy unfortunately. I'm sorry to The Shamen, I'm sure there are people who love your music - I'm just not one of them. Needless to say, I definitely won't listen to this ever again. Music is often my coping mechanism, and I feel like today it betrayed me.
Another artist I never really listened to in my youth, I think the few tracks of theirs I knew had the effect of putting me off listening to more. For once this approach paid off. I couldn't make it all the way through this album. It just doesn't sound right to me.
Kind of boring
1990 was a strange time for me but that’s a long story for another day. One thing that kept me going through that time was music and especially electronic dance music. The Shamen were in the forefront of a uniquely British electronica sound, along with Orbital and Paul Oakenfold leading into the 90s rave scene. Sadly, keyboard player and bassist Will Sinnott died in a drowning accident in Tenerife just as this album hit the big time. The band regrouped and produced some notable hits alongside many remixes, live work, procedural software and experimental ambient albums that still sound utterly unique. They now have something of a reputation for being a bit naff, mainly based on a toe curling (and probably chemically assisted) live performance of Ebeneezer Goode on Top of The Pops a couple of years after this album came out (seriously, look it up on YouTube). However, I couldn’t give a hoot about what anybody else thinks - this album still makes me want to throw some shapes and dance, which I think is all the band ever wanted. MDMA-tastic!
Yea this was not it, it got better at the end tho. I'm not going to revisit this any soon. Also: we get it, you can move any mountain 2/5
Dude
Again I must have words with whoever made this list. This album is not one of the 1,001 albums you need to hear before you die. Not even the top 10,001.
Made it through Make It Minimal and I'm afraid that's all the time we have for this untz-untz-untz
This felt like a joke
😂
by far the weirdest album yet, i’ve never heard anything like this before. at first i didn’t hate it and it was kinda growing on me, but after abt an hour of it i quickly got tired of it
170/1001 The Shamen - En-Tact Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ I understand that this is integral to the 90s club scene, but this felt too repetitive and samey over the course of over an hour.
Quite horrible
This album sums up everything I don't like about the 80s music. Although published in 1990, it is some kind of late 80s music. It doesn't really have anything interesting about it. Not that the musicians are bad and they are simply doing what was popular at this time. But i don't like it. (2 for creativity)
Sure, why not ? 2.5/5
Borderline plate, mais des fois y’a des ptits moments cool qui garde mon intérêt hors de l’eau
Not my thing
Pops and blips. If you're looking for a rave, this is probably what you're looking for.
0 added to my favorites. Would avoid listening again.
Surprisingly good as background music for studying, as it is pleasant although extremely repetitive. Other than for that use, I have no desire to listen to it again, even if I don't actively dislike it.
Love the electronic music, but way too much remixing, only 3 songs in there. The rest is just remixes.
we get it Robert dimery, you did a lot of MDMA in the 90s
Cool old techno!
Something brilliant was happening in the 80s with the crossover among hip hop, new wave, and punk. Rapture is perhaps its commercial peak, and Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style is an iconic film that captures the crossover. The escapades of Futura 2000 by the clash, ft. Futura 2000 is a personal favorite. I’ve written graduate essays about the New York scene in the 80s with Colab, read extensively about basquiat and Warhol. I find few moments as fascinating as that particular moment in time when hip hop, punk, and new wave all coalesced in midtown and lower Manhattan. This album wants to be Debbie Harry shouting out Fab Five Freddy in front of Basquiat during Rapture. It isn’t.
I actually didn’t find this album as bad as some of the reviews make it out to be but I guess I was in a pretty good mood when I listened to it. Overall not my favorite but I can see the vision. It did t exactly age well though.
Yeah i don't wanna be a hater but this ain't it. Its fun on its own thinking about the music changing over from 1989 to 1990.
Urgh. I disliked the Shamen in the 90s. I dislike them still. Utter shite!
SpongeBob ahh music
Just like every other late 80s early 90s dance club groups only not as good as the stand outs like Black Box, CeCe Peniston, Robin S., Everything but the girl, Crystal Waters, La Bouche.... you get the idea.
psyc rock. not my thing but not annoying
A standard EDM album from the 90s that went a little long. Pretty random for the list and there is another album in the book from a very similar group.
The second half of the album made me take a * away
That was rough.
Another video game soundtrack album for me. Need for speed and other racing games from the PS2 instilled within me an attraction to that strange and sometimes corny mid 90s to early 2000s sound. The fact that it came out in 1990 impressed me too. Seems a bit before the times. Paving the way for edm/dance.
Liked the club sound - not earth shattering but very consumable.
I cannot believe that The Shamen, a mid-tier band from a low-tier decade, have been deemed one of the most important 1001 albums of all time. A poor man's Prodigy. I can only assume that I would have to be on massive doses of ecstacy to enjoy this. And this doesn't even include Ebenezer Goode. Instead we have Omega Amigo, a title a half-wit would probably think is clever. I did like the "lyrics" on Hear Me, but only because it's a great and powerful message, the actual musical backing was garbage.
only a few songs were okay
Had I thought of this book, I too would have put in some of the worst shit imaginable as a prank.
Another album that won't end after never getting started. So boring. Who asked for this?
i love 90s electronica, but this did not work for me, too repetitive and kinda bland
This sounds like a crappy version of whatever Shaun and Ed From Shaun of the Dead were spinning at 4 AM. That being said I vote this is the first record we throw at the zombies during our inevitable future war with them.
54/1001 First listen. Seriously? Like when your Dad reveals he was in a band in the nineties and springs this one on you. I’ve never heard of En-Tact before and this did not win me over. Maybe I would have been into this when it was released. Sounds like I’m hearing every preset on the keyboard at RadioShack. It would be great if it was explained why each album is actually on this list because some of these just seem absurd. Maybe that’s in the book though. 3/10
This was really all over the place. Nothing was bad just didn't go together and I was sure what to expect next in a chaotic random kind of way.
This didn't really win me over but it's okay elctro dance music that mostly feels late 80's with occasional early 90's.
What a treat! A snapshot of electronic music right at the very early days of the 1990’s. There’s a bounciness and a general fun vibe to this. The genre hadn’t been drowned in heroin chic and dank basement darkness yet. It reminds me of Underworld in their lighter moments. I think a couple of these songs will sit nicely in my 1990 year playlist. I love finds like this.
This was fun enough, it had some groovin’ dancy moments.
My finger is sore from hitting the 'next' button so much.
Mid like queen
mid
First song was 10/10 rest was ok
Poop
Just an electric dance record. Nothing special. They sampled rob base. Only notable thing I picked up.
A whole lot of nothing to be honest. It’s not bad, but it is nothing more than background music that mostly got ignored. I don’t even think I finished the album because I honestly forgot it was playing and started scrolling videos on another platform, never returning to the album.
What did I gain from this? What did I learn? Did I grow, did I hear, did I feel something new? Did I dream? Did I laugh? Did I cry? No. I sat in Chicago traffic for an hour listening to a fucking Logic preset. I don't even think this was pioneering work according to anyone that matters. Don't get me wrong, this was perfectly listenable. But what the fuck are we doing here?
Early 90s Electronic - some of this felt very dated and then I heard some electronic beats that I'm sure influenced the genre. Apparently, this band became a rave staple. My favorite song is "666 edit".
5/10… electronic / 90s dance / *1990
The short review: You had to be there at the time. And be on drugs. The long review: When I reflect on my music listening life, I sometimes have a twinge of regret that I missed out on the rave scene of the 90s. I had friends into it at the time so I was aware of it in the era when it was underground where the location was only revealed when you showed up to the meeting point. At that time I was going to punk and hardcore shows held at community centres, and if it wasn’t hard and fast and guitar-based, I wasn’t interested. As I’ve gotten older and as my musical horizons have broadened, I realize that I missed something that was interesting and unique, and that really only existed for a short period of time. When you’re young you think things as they exist will carry on forever, not aware of how fleeting it all is. And not that it was all good, because I remember friends feeling absolutely rotten on post-rave Mondays at school coming down from their weekend intake of ecstasy or ketamine. And listening to this, assuming that this album made the list because it’s some sort of classic of the genre, I don’t seem to have missed anything musically either. I understand that music written explicitly to dance to in an unoccupied warehouse isn’t necessarily going to work in the context of listening in your car on your morning commute, but it’s just so lacklustre. Uninteresting drum programming, limp bass lines, blah synths. The hippy dippy rave culture lyrics are what they are, times have changed. I like electronic music, but this sounds lazy, like it’s a parody of the genre. Maybe I’d feel differently if I was high off my tits in some sketchy warehouse or field somewhere, but in the sober light of morning this is absolutely dreadful.
Never even heard of these guys. This was pretty cool a lot of interesting sounds and I'm sure it was revolutionary sounding in 1990. It's a little too inconsistent for me to want to come back to I think but this has made me curious about checking out other bands from the late 80s early 90s "Madchester" scene.
Not as bad as I remembered it.
There’s so much of this style on this list. This is one of the worst examples.
If an electronic artist on this list is miminally cool to listen to and doesn't annoy me, they get 3 stars. This group came dangerously close to losing a star with the rap in the last song, but it's the holidays so I'm going to let it slide.
Meh it doesnt hold test of time outdated music that was great at the time. Like new order and depache and pet shop boys but not as good.
3.5
Dance! Dance! Shaman! Good upbeat electronic dance.
Meh.
"En-Tact" was part of the rock and dance hybrid genre that emerged in the early 90s in the UK, alongside bands like The Happy Mondays and Primal Scream. The Shamen had embraced rave culture following their time as a psychedelic rock band. The various versions of the album feature remixes by some major names in the early British techno scene, like Orbital, Paul Oakenfold (fresh from working with the Happy Mondays), 808 State, William Orbit, and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto. It absolutely marks a very specific place and time. While I didn't live through that era myself, I did once become interested in it and so there's some secondhand nostalgia for me here. There are some good songs, as well, most notably "Move Any Mountain". It captures a bit more of the rave side of the movement as well. However, I don't think it's the best representation of the era. To start with, it's sort of a remix album, so a lot of the sound is coming from other artists. For the rock/dance sound, other entries on this list did it better. For rave culture, they could done better by selecting early works from someone like Moby or Orbital (both on the list, but from later eras). It's a very generous 4 stars from me. It deserves 3, I know, but I found it fun to revisit this kind of album.
I can't say it's bland but it feels flat. Just alright. 2.4 outta 5
No! Why?
Club music in support of retaining foreskins.
The music is very repetitive, which is clearly the point, but that doesn't mean I have to enjoy it. But I do enjoy it, kind of. Mercifully, and unusually for the genre, the tracks are generally shy of the five-minute mark (with some exceptions). It's a really easy condition to fulfil, but I should give it some credit. Other 90s-electronic-loop music tends to overdo the length, presumably because they run out of musical ideas but still have to fill an LP. There are some good tracks, though. I find it pretty funny that the main single, Move Any Mountian, is misspelled on Spotify. It stands out positively as a track for having one of the only genuine melodies on the record – even if that melody is kind of mundane. Possible Worlds: Deep PSI is a mild standout for incorporating a sort of Spanish guitar part. I so wish it had been more varied. Some solos, some taking of inspiration from a theme... anything. Especially since it's the longest track on the album. Give us something to work with. (It's still pretty solid relative to the rest of the record.) Omega Amigo has some decent harmonies, and the arcade-machine synths every few bars are pretty nifty. Make It Mine's vocals are lazily delivered and mixed poorly so that you can't make out the lyrics easily. But it makes up for it (and then some) with its excellent guitarwork. The sounds here are absolutely nothing revolutionary, which I feel is a bit of a requirement for albums that receive very little streaming time in the modern day. (Seriously. 9 of the 15 tracks have under 100k streams, which is pretty bad for a list of the thousand most important albums in history. It would seem modern audiences disagree with you, little mister Dimery.) And there are plenty of bad tracks that easily justify their low popularity on the Spotifies. Evil Is Even is interesting, I guess, for its use of really bad high drones in the vocals (or Mellotron, maybe?) and just an overall unpleasant sound. The percussion pattern in Lightspan is irritating once you start paying attention to it. Hear Me just has aggressively bad production – very much a product of the 80s – and a bad choice of sound effects to accompany it. The jittery shouting isn't great either. 666 Edit reads the same to me, only without the vocals (creating a negligible change) until the second half. The callback to Move Any Mountian is fun but unnecessary. 2/5 Key tracks: Move Any Mountian, Possible Worlds: Deep PSI, Make It Mine
All individual tracks are great, but due to its length and all the remixes, it gets repetitive in the end.
Some good grooves and dancy stuff in here. But also lots of very corny, on-the-nose lyrics. Would rather listen to Underworld, Massive Attack, or many other electronic albums before coming back to this. Some cool stuff on Lightspan and other tracks.
I like to dance, I like this fine
巧 <- why this character on album?
Surprising jam just at the right moment in life
soort kruising tussen New Beat en Pet Shop Boys... zelfs een kruising tussen Florence Foster Jenkins en Malinda Jackson Parker is zelfs beter
Perfect! Very underrated on this site
Good
2.5. Totally listenable but I don't ever need to listen to it again.
If I need to listen to another tepid electronica album, please end me. It was a vibe for about 10 minutes but 1h06 was painful.
Some solid background music
Tbh I liked this for the most part. Giving it three stars. Considered two but that’s not fair considering I gave several albums a 3 and I probably enjoyed them less. I like electronic music so it was mostly fine for me.
Started off enjoying it, faded towards the end
Beyond shite
nah
I LOOOOVE IT ITS SO GROOVY AND A LITTLE WEIRD I LOVE IT it feels like i am on a spaceship
Dug it
If you told me this was AI-generated, I'd believe it. It's that soulless.
The music sounds like it's played at a overhyped nightclub that closes after two weeks because the owner spent whatever profits he made on cocaine.
It wasn’t bad.
Una pena que no sean chinos o mongoles, lo que me hace darme cuenta que no he visto nada asiatico de momento. El disco esta guapo, alguna cancion me trilla un poco el cerebro pero es bailongo (pero no mucho) y va genial para entrar en trance, creo que me he mareado (tambien pueden ser efectos secundarios de la pastilla que me estoy tomando)
1.mountain - 1.5 2. human -0 3. deep - 1.5 4. amigo - 1 5. evil - 1 6. orbit - 1.5 7. Light - 1.5 8. Mine- 1.5 9. Oxygen - 1 10. Hear - 1 11. Edit - 1 12. Minimal - 1 13. Selector - 1 14. Wave - 1.5 15. Progen - 1.5
Is this a joke? It sounds like a bad SNL knockoff of a bad SNL skit.
Das 1990 erschienene Album En-Tact markiert für die schottisch-britische Formation The Shamen eine deutliche stilistische Wende. Nach frühen Psychedelic-Rock-Einflüssen orientierte sich die Band nun stärker an elektronischer Club- und Rave-Musik. Die Aufnahmen entstanden zwischen 1989 und 1990 und zeigen erstmals DJ Mr C (Richard West) als Mitglied, während Bassist Will Sinnott hier seinen letzten Auftritt hatte. Musikalisch verbindet das Album House-Rhythmen, programmierte Percussion und repetitive Synth-Strukturen mit eingängigen Gesangselementen. Titel wie „Progen (Move Any Mountain)“ und „Hyperreal“ gehören zu den bekanntesten Songs der Band und veranschaulichen die Mischung aus Pop-Affinität und Club-Tauglichkeit. In der Produktion zeigt sich ein durchdachtes Gleichgewicht zwischen technischer Präzision und tanzorientierter Atmosphäre. En-Tact gilt als wichtiger Schritt in der Entwicklung britischer Rave-Musik, auch wenn die Länge und rhythmische Gleichförmigkeit einzelner Stücke den Hörfluss gelegentlich bremsen. Unterm Strich steht ein solides, richtungsweisendes Werk zwischen Indie-Erbe und elektronischer Neuausrichtung.
This is not for me. I do not enjoy the majority of electronic music and this sounds very very dated. It is like C & C Music Factory but less catchy and with the cat from the Paula Abdul video "Opposites Attract" singing. One of my least favorite experiences 222 albums into this list.
Definitivamente algo, os efeitos sonoros eletrônicos dão um ar de “espaço sideral” que eu gosto, mas o estilo vocal particularmente me fazem lembrar dos gospels que minha vó gosta de ouvir. Gostei da diferença. 7/10
Not bad, but bland and forgettable
I like it more than expected. I'd only heard "Move any Mountain" before and liked it, but not enough to pursue them. Mostly this is decent electronica. Singer's voice is fine. Like most keyboard-based dance music, this doesn't hold up as well sitting at home actively listening. But with a drink or two in ya, and perhaps other chemicals, this would make you shake that thing, yah? "Omega Amigo" sticks out as a weak point. Just basic pop nonsense. One hour and 5 minutes is excessive. This stuff is better in small doses. Let's call it a 3 today.
Surprisingly enjoyable.
It’s like the 80s and 90s conceived an album in space.
Horrible
I'd have a dropped a smiley and had a boogie to this back in the day!
Whatever.
Weird music for normies. It sucks so much that it’ll be the first album I did not finish listening to. Made it 82 albums but this shit knocked me out. Listening to Structures from Silence as a pallet cleanser.
This is horrible. Please make it stop!!!!!!
Mega vibe, wszystko co lubię, na pewno będę wracać
Do tańca i do różańca Puśćcie mi go w klubie i będę tuptać Puśćcie podczas pracy i będę w full skupieniu Byłam cały czas jak w transie, loveee it
Not really my thing, though I found parts of it at least interesting as upbeat work music.
Like listening to Kurtis Blow and the Sugarhill Gang, I feel obligated to find things to like in this because there's breadcrumbs of Underworld and The Prodigy and other bands I love. But it just wasn't very good, or at least it's aged so poorly that it now feels like a parody of something. I could probaly give it a two-star pass, but the lyrics are so cringey that I couldn't make it through the whole thing.
I liked some of it. Some of it was a bit to much of an 80's vibe. It could also have been quite a bit shorter.
Very bland 90s dance/techno I’m afraid
I do not like this. Not at all. Not a little. No likes here.
Good
I believe this is the most 80's vibing 1990 album ever. Or it was signaling the era change... hard to choose. Some albums, like this one, are "grounded" in their era. I can't imagine this being made today simply because it IS so 80's vibe. I suppose if one were having a themed party or looking for nostalgia this might work. For me it was maybe a bit too much, although it was not "bad" in any direct (say annoying or glaring) way, it was just "oh man is THAT 80's sounding."
Yeah it's ok I guess
I was grooving throughout most of this album… Very cohesive but unique sound (although rather repetitive). Fascinating combination of psychedelic techno and sometimes hip-hop. Entrancing production and melodies and the lyrics also did a good job in moving me through the various tracks. However, the sound is certainly dated. My rating increased when I tried dancing. "I can move, move, move any mountain." Not really my cup of tea, but a fun album nonetheless.
A little repetitive, but the songs are infectious and a great backdrop to keep me pumped during a sewing project.
I understand the inclusion of this album on the list. This style of dance music definitely had its cultural moment in the 90s. I was too young to be going to clubs or raves at the time so for me I associate this with the Mortal Combat movie soundtrack. Did I need a whole album of the Mortal Combat theme song? Absolutely not. The majority of this is a 10 second drum sample played ad nauseum for 3-5 minutes. I think EDM advanced a lot over the years where artists started making it more dynamic, but this early stuff is very flat. There were a few songs that broke the mold though, Evil is Even was cool and different. 666 Edit was the peak of this album, it had different parts, and I loved where they cut the music in and out so it seemed like it was skipping but stayed on time, that was cool too.
Early '90s rave music. I didn't think it was very good but it wasn't offensive either. Spiritually Israeli kind of. Like there's definitely a lot of old dudes in Tel Aviv and this is their favorite album of all time.
maybe set the 90's up, but rather dull these days
This is not it chief. Disclaimer: I have been bombarded with 90's rave/electronic album recomendations, and at the 3rd or 4th it all starts sounding the same. I get it, I really do, but geez, can NOT listen to it anymore.