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didnt really like it idk
My first impression was a pretty negative one. But after two or three tracks it started growing on me (or maybe they started off with their worst). Still not an album I'd actively listen to. But absolutely fine for background in the right mood.
Solid
Pas un style que je connais beaucoup, mais j'entend plein de chose que j'ai entendu plus tard dans d'autres album. C'est pas égale, mais il y a des éléments que j'aime bien. Pas un disque que j'écouterais régulièrement, mais je suis content de l'avoir écouté.
Surprised how much i enjoye$ this one.
It's very 1990. It's not the best album ever, it's very of its time. The best thing about it was that Ebeneezer Goode played once it ended. There's some great moments on there, but a lot of it is overlong - 2 minute ideas spread over 5. It wasn't unenjoyable, but definitely isn't a classic. Obviously meant to be enjoyed on a couple of pingers, after which I'm sure it sounds like deep heat for the soul.
ok
This gives me Night At The Roxbury vibes. Pretty good NGL though very dated sounding
Ohh yeah! Part of the soundtrack for the 90’s indie/techno rave parties Nice flash back!
Fun collection of some big beats/remixes. Probably you really have to be in a dancing mood to enjoy this, in which case it’s pretty good. But outside of that environment this becomes a pretty tough listen. It verges on trance music at times with how repetitive it is, but I have to say I am impressed that it’s 30+ years old. 6/10
Big fish, little fish, cardboard box.
It sounded like dated late 80s/early 90s dance music but it did sound like the pre-cursor to a lot of music that I have enjoyed.
some real bad and hard to listen during day. but not the worst.
Great album to dance to.
Englandsnostalgía.
Upbeat house/dance music. Not my normal type of thing, but not bad. Vocals perhaps a little lacking.
Not terrible but pretty generic.
Música electrónica. Ni fu ni fa.
It was alright but really just made we want to listen to Daft Punk.
This has a very 1990 sound... some 80s, some 90s, some elements of music not yet to come. I thought it was fine, but not too enjoyable.
Move any mountain is a tune, the rest were ok but not great
Bit dafter than the orb, better than I thought it might be
Full of recognisable hits, this was a major transition for the Shamen from a previous incarnation as yet another goth psych band into a fully fledged rave dance act. The album sounds a little dated now, and production, while good, lacks the punch of later dance releases. Possibly also down to the relentless chase to overcompress and maximise the volume that has been a common feature of electronic dance music for the last 20 years. Top tracks: Move Any Mountain, Omega Amigo, Hyperreal Orbit
pretty good
Простенько
i've tried so hard to like these guys. they have one track that's an absolute standout for me (destination eschaton - all-time favorite, no question), but no matter where i look, i only find that track is just unlike most of their work. this album was fine, don't get me wrong - and a huge statement for 1990, for sure - but it really wasn't what i love about them.
80's new wave, but i don't remember it, and the first 2 songs weren't interesting
I'm travelling so I didn't have a lot of time to spend listening to this. Move Any Mountain is full of energy and fun beats so grabs your attention at the start. Hyperreal Orbit is a better song imo better but surprisingly has over 90% fewer listens on Spotify. Ditto Lightspan. Generally speaking, I prefer music with lyrics but the lyrics on Human NRG and Omega Amigo don't add much so I would rather they left them aside. I like the vocals on Possible Worlds but, having said that, I'm not 100% sure they are vocals as opposed to synths. Regardless, I like that track too. This was an interesting listen. I like more trucks than I dislike for sure but still not sure.
I noticed that the opening track & lead single “Move Any Mountain” was not on the original UK release, which is great IMO because it sounds like Stereo MCs and I’m not a fan of thin, indie type vocals trying to sound high-energy over-top of dance music. I prefer the tracks with vocal effects vs singing. It adds cred that up and coming DJ producers of the era (Oakenfold, Orbital, 808 State) remixed a number of them. The series that starts with “Hyperreal Orbit” is good. The synths set the mood and I like the effects (though they’re dated now). I was going to give it a 4 but the last track was a re-rub of the first….
I had a sister who was a couple of years older than me (still is in fact) and so I used to hear some of these tunes blasting from her bedroom. Pure 90's dance. Best Tracks: Move Any Mountain, Omega Amigo, 666 Edit
Bit of nostalgia, couple of really good tracks but the rest haven’t aged so well.
The sound of 90s electronic 🎶
Nice
Good album for working out. I’m not sure how often I’d listen to it on my own, but it’s decent. I especially like Omega Amigo!
A high energy ball of fun. A little one note and very early 90s dance but I still enjoyed it. Vocals were meh.
This is fine… some interesting sounds going on here and there I guess. I just…do not understand the appeal of listening to music like this outside the context of a club or a car chase scene in an action movie or something lol
Fun album, nice to dance to. Still feels a bit dated now!
Raveros no enteros, acid house y techno rock y algo de ambient, a la altura de los primeros Primal Scream.
I am surprised I liked it, but I did.
Hyvää settiä, sopii hyvin työskentelyyn taustamusaksi :) semmosia 80 luvun synakikkailun jälkimaininkeja, itselleni tuntematon bändi ja levy etupeltoon.
Not really my cup of tea, but sounds good!
electronica, Psychedelic rock + Rave, könnte Soundtrack für einen Film sein, starke 3
Not the worst thing I’ve ever listened to. Most songs were pretty catchy, but it definitely reminded me of the band they form in Revenge of the Nerds.
Kinda mindless techno-ish, not my bag
Enjoyable, surprisingly catchy and positive hooks, makes you want to get up and dance. Feels like I should be on speed in a 90s office. Or tripping balls at a house party. Very little in between. Much of it melts into each other although you shouldn't be sober enough to realize it any way. Standout Tracks: Move Any Mountain, Possible Worlds, Omega Amigo, Evil Is Even
It was decent but nothing special about it for me
Rave music. The percussion drew me in, the electronics are catchy. I didn't dislike this. It was 2 or 3 stars.
I really wish I had been listening to this somewhere cool and genre appropriate vs outside in the sun
This sounds like menu music for one of those demo cds that came with the PlayStation 1. One of those albums where I check the run time three songs in and despair. Pretty repetitive and dated.
Favorite track was Human NRG. I still think there's too much electronic music on this list. This one was fairly fun, but got a little drone-y for me toward the end. Maybe a lil too long.
House, dance, rave... not really the type of music that I can deeply analyze so let's just leave this at... it was fine.
Maybe a nice opener for a rave event
Top album? Really?
I thought shamans were all about nature spiritsor something like that, but apparently they mostly deal in empty platitudes. You learn something new every day.
Listening to this makes me think that there's a psychic trying to explode my brain. Favourite Track(s): 666 Edit, Human NRG Least Favourite Track(s): Hear Me, Lightspan Lightwave
Not my cup of tea.
While I do like the later more straightforward rave version of The Shamen as prefigured by "Move Any Mountain" here, I don't think they're a particularly essential band. I guess an argument can be made that they mainstreamed House music in the UK, but if you want to include House in your list of albums to hear before you die, I think several performers of colour based around Chicago have a much better claim than a bunch of white guys from Scotland.
I would describe this as night club dance music. It was somewhat energizing while I was cleaning out my fridge, but it can get kind of repetitive if you're focusing too hard on it.
This project really seems focused on convincing everyone that 90s UK club music is the most significant music created by humans. I wonder when the authors happened to be 22 years old lol.
Pretty bad
It was OK, but rather annoying.
I feel like it had promise as a funky synth 90s-vibe jam, but a lot of the songs were just meh.
This feels like I am in a movie about arcade games from the 80s.
hyped asf for this. didn’t really end up fucking with it. sad. i kind of just found it annoying.
This is just so dated and too long.
Oh joy, another electronic album. :-/ If I were listening to this in a dark, smoky club at 3am in 1994... well, I won't say I would ENJOY it, but it would make more sense than listening to it in my office on a Tuesday morning in 2026.
My God this album is tedious. Just the same beats or tempo with very little variation for over an hour. I had my hopes up with the first song, "Move Mountains," which is kind of Charlatans UK/Stone Roses shoegaze-like but then it just descended into a boring rave of sameness. By the end I had tuned it out completely. I get what they were trying to do and appreciate the fusion they were going for...but mix it up a little.
Would probably be a 3 stars for me if it weren't so long and samey. I appreciate that these guys are into more of a fusion, mixing in elements of rock and rap into electronic, but the rap is straight up cringe, and it sounds very dated today. Some good songs, even sound a little like Depeche Mode on a few tracks. This would be a 2.5 for me if possible, but closer to a 2 than 3, started to grate around the 45 min mark
oh but it was boring. It all sounded the same and went on forever.
Please help me understand.
meh
Didn't hate it but can't really say I liked it. I am just lost with these older electronica albums. With most of the popular genres I can fit the records into a story of subcultures and influences that helps me appreciate them even if they aren't exactly my thing. But to me this just sounds like an alternate fan soundtrack to the Matrix. Yes I know the Matrix hadn't come out yet, no I don't care. I didn't dislike listening to it so it isn't a 1, but I can't rate it a 3 because I don't think I can make a coherent statement about any of the tracks, except there was something about mountains...
Too long.
very house! i think environment matters when listening to this. would be much more fun in a club and not sitting in my bed listening off of my laptop.
It’s dance music that I can’t imagine dancing to. There are some fun moments, and some really annoying moments which are unfortunately exacerbated by the album’s length. Not a fan.
Slot this in there with the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure. This is the type of music I imagine would be playing in a gay bar. And that’s fine I’m just letting someone reading this know that I suffered through enough of it that they don’t have to.
This makes me want to punch something. 2
#954. Good techno is already tiresome, bad techno is literally torture. 2/5: it sucks
listening to this at 7:45 while stone cold sober maybe not the best way to properly enjoy their music
Fine but just too long.
When we say that something is average, we mean that it is consistent. And this album is consistently bad, that is, it's average. 2 stars.
As with most electronic stuff, this wasn’t for me. It was fine as background music, but was too samey and repetitive to be engaging. They clearly realised that album opener ‘Move Any Mountain’ was the best track, as they essentially repeat it (albeit at greater length) for the closer. In general, however, I preferred the instrumental tracks as the vocals and lyrics were poor. I enjoyed the guitar parts on ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Make It Mine’. Apart from that, I’m really struggling to think of anything else that stood out at all. Nice to know they were against apartheid, though.
Very techno and repetitive. But not horrible.
kinda boring maybe just hasn't aged well
A bit cheesy-pie, innit?
Nostalgic sound but nothing to make it a must listen
Wanted to give it a 1 just due to the pure uselessness of it being on this list. Especially when another track of theirs that autoplayed was better than anything from this album. But, there were a few tracks in the second half that were decent enough.
Not really my style, and there’s a lot of it.
Highlights: Progen (Land of Oz), Omega Amigo, Lightspan, Make It Mine V2.5
No idea! Scottish psychedelic rock: Primed to love. Though I think it may be too dancey for me. Certainly for a crammed af flight to Austin. Perhaps I wait. HA are they rapping too? I should really probably wait but this is cute. Somehow I’m writing a ptsd evaluation on a packed flight while listening to this album and I don’t hate it. And yet I didn’t like it?
I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. This is an electronic dance album. It doesn't really do much for me, and I would not listen again.
I didn't mind it. Can't tell if these guys are on here because they're in some way influential, but to my electronica-averse ears I didn't hear much of anything unique.
The whole new agey techno-hippie vibe is decidedly not for me, but despite lacking depth and complexity to my ear, this slowly won me over a bit as some decent trippy background music. Not something that'd hold my attention for very long; but tbf I don't think that's the intended way to listen to this anyway.
I can almost see the flashing lights and frenetic energy of the dancers as well as smell the conflated reek of sweat, cologne, perfume and spilled drinks in a club I only want to get the hell out of.
Dance club electronica with vocals. Maybe it was groundbreaking at some point? But now it sounds somple and stereotypical. A 2.
You can practically smell the dry ice being pumped around the Top of the Pops stage. I mean, this is as 1990s as you can get. I hear this and I’m seven years old again. Zig and Zag are teeing up shows like James Bond Jr. and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles on the other channel, and I’m eating a luminous yellow “Roy of the Rovers” bar (which I'm guessing has since been taken out of circulation for health reasons). It may be incredibly dated, but I have to admit that “Move Any Mountain” is an enjoyable tune. The rest of the album went by me in a haze, and I don’t mean the same type of haze that afflicted the ravers of the 90s. I can hear what The Shamen were trying to do, and at times there were a few interesting moments, like the dark minimalist guitar tones in “Evil is Even”. It just feels completely stuck in 1990, and mostly sounds like the menu music in an old Namco arcade game.
Quickly moved down to annoying, made worse due to the three different releases with different tracks, length, and order. What does that say about their belief in their product?
Other than the opening track, which is a great single, there isn't much that stands out on this album. A fairly decent 90s dance album, but not exactly something that I feel is an essential album to listen to.
Remarkably boring club music.
Techno
Mi(n)d-lessly repetitive dance instead of being psychedelic and hypnotic. This kind of dance definitely didn't age well. It was quite underwhelming like they were repeating the same motifs and beats from one song, and calling that an album?? Go guys give us nothing 👏 (2.5)
I was wondering how we got from Kraftwerk to 90's electronic music and bet it was The Shamen. The album was all sorts of 90's cheesy, but that's the beauty of it. This was like the Sonic Youth of electronic. Had some good sounds but no super bangers.
There are a few decent tracks on here, but it should not be over an hour. If they released this as 6-8 of the best tracks, it might have crossed over into the US and become a classic. At times, they're pretty good at imitating the best US producers of the time, but some other songs are quite corny and the "rapping" is downright bad. Yet again, I need to point out that this list is packed with second rate UK copies of pioneering Black contemporaries in Chicago, Detroit, and New York. Take this off the list and add in the real artists who originated, innovated, and elevated dance music in the 80s/90s.
generøs 2'er. Tog en evighed at komme igennem
Måske lidt et stretch at absolut skulle høre den her før man dør, men synes det var ret charmerende! Altid sjovt at høre tidlig elektronisk musik
Felt very long. Sounded like its time. 90s soft electro techno thing
Well, that was something.
Very tiresome
2 out of 5. Some nice beats/rhythms but still kinda boring for me.
I owned this album in the early 90's as I was a bit of an EDM fan. I remember giving it exactly one listen back then. During this listen, I remembered why...it's lifeless. The singing sounds so disinterested, and so much of the album plods along at a medium pace.
Eh ok. Don’t hate, don’t love.
I just can’t with these mediocre house albums anymore
2 more days to go and I'm done with this list. After it all, I can really say that the worst stuff here really is are the House albums. Must be an european thing, but to think that these are still relevant today makes no sense to me. This list really needs quite the update and they should hire somebody else to do it while they're at it.
Another album to just zone-out your mind and waiting for it to finish.
my first proper foray into acid house music (at least that i can remember) and whilst it is pretty good for what it is and made good background music as i did my assessment task, i don't think i will ever return to it again outside of maybe 2 songs. Fav Song: Possible Worlds: Deep PSI Least Fav: Evil is Even
2 Inoffensive, boring though
Never heard of The Shamen and understand why, it's by no way in my taste. The shitty electronic sound of the 80's is so prevalent that I would enjoy a trip at the dentist 10_000 times more than listening to this album. Hopefully the second part of the album redeems it a bit. Favorite songs: Possible Worlds: Deep Psi
Going from Aphex Twin to this is a drastic shift in quality. I just didn’t like this. I think my favorite song here was 666 Edit because of the sharp synth tones. Probably would not revisit this. Could have been worse. At least it was only a hour.
Very boring electronic stuff, maybe like 3 catchy songs and the rest just falls in the background extremely easily.
Franchement, je voulais l'aimer, cet album. Vraiment. J'ai vu que c'était un album d'électronique, j'étais content. Je me suis dit que ça changeait un petit peu. Malheureusement, à l'écoute, j'ai un peu déchanté. C'était pas affreux, bien au contraire, il y avait pas mal de passages sympathique. Le gros défaut, c'est qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup de dynamique, c'est plutôt plat du début à la fin. Et ça dure une heure ! Alors forcément, la lassitude finit par s'installer. J'ai longuement hésité à mettre 3, mais je me suis quand même un peu trop ennuyé pour ça, alors ça sera un 2.
It's a rare piece of electronic music that I vibe with. This just isn't my jam at all. It was inoffensive, clearly well done, and I did rather enjoy the bit where the sudden bursts of silence functioned almost as percussion.
It’s not shit, but it is very unenjoyable. Unless you’re gurning your tits off on about 8 doves, I suspect.
Repetitive electronic music. Most of the lyrics are whispered. Hard to keep myself interested towards the end. 2/5 Won't listen again
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.
Just not my Jam at all
umas parecem música genérica de menu de um jogo ruim, outras são até interessantes. enfim, nada demais. um pouco longo e eh isso
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.)
meh
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
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
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
Not my cup of tea
Meh instrumenta music, even for me.
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
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?
Fine background music, not one I see myself coming back to a ton
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.
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.
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.
0/15 bekannt 5,5/10 Beste Songs: 666 edit, make it mine, move any mountain
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
2.5 maybe? Liked it more than I expected but it's definitely of an era
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2/5
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.
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 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.
Was ok. Never in danger of a 1
The Shamen named themselves after Len Houmous’ 15th wife, Sharon. Sharon Shamen. 2.3 1/15 Move Any Mountain
Some interesting bits, but what is it with electronic music that you need acid to enjoy it?
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!!
Wow did I step into the Matrix? Or maybe Hackers?
nah
This is pure psychedelics. My head hurts
Not really my kind of record. Beats were not catchy or engaging enough for me.
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.
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.
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
Too many mountains to move…
- 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummers al toegevoegd aan MMMM
Was interesting at the time but doesn’t age well.
518/1001
Kind of boring
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
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.
😂
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
Not my thing
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.
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.
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
only a few songs were okay
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
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.
Mid like queen
mid
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.
There’s so much of this style on this list. This is one of the worst examples.
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.
Meh.
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.
巧 <- why this character on album?
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.
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.
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.
Not bad, but bland and forgettable
Whatever.
Not really my thing, though I found parts of it at least interesting as upbeat work music.
Very bland 90s dance/techno I’m afraid
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.
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.
Meh
Ik heb niks tegen housemuziek, maar dit vind ik toch wel een matige keuze. Het is allemaal een beetje karig. En zeer gedateerd. Ik het redelijk goed hebben als het aanstaat en ik lekker aan het werk ben, maar meer dan 2 sterren kan ik hier niet voor uitdelen.
Very 90’s baggy house influenced not brilliant not offensive
Some interesting parts but too repetitive for my tastes.
Some music shouldve been left behind in the 90s.
Caca de vaca. hay que estar drogado y en una rave para disfrutarlo.
Another boring electonica album.
Not the best album, but it did not hurt me to listen to it either.
Not really a fan of electronic music. Wasn’t really a fan of this album.
I don't think this is the worst electronic album I've heard on this journey, but it wasn't very good either.
3/10 Just awful - repetitive, robotic junk. I was kind of into this when I was 10, but then I grew up. Is that patronising? I hope so.
I've never liked "rave" dance music ... still don't.
En tiiä en oikeen tykänny
Hahahha wauw wat is dit? Een psychrock band word een rave act? Sign me the fuck up! Ah shit gaat dit weer een album worden wat heel vet is maar ongeveer een half uur te lang? Zo voelt het nu al namelijk... De ideeën zijn echt vet en ik ben helemaal klaar voor wat er gedaan word, maar ik merk nu al dat nummers net ff te lang doorgaan om interessant te blijven. En ja dat is een beetje dit album in een notendop. Echt wel wat vette dingen er in, maar duidelijk een pionier. Of wacht, dit komt uit 1990?? Nee man, dan heb je geen enkele reden om zulke matige electrorave te maken. Kraftwerk was al bejaard tegen die tijd, JMJ had er al wat bangers op zitten, zelfs Violator van Depeche Mode komt uit hetzelfde jaar!? Nope, nee, helaas Daarvoor is dit te weinig, niet goed genoeg. Heb me zeker aan het begin best wel vermaakt, maar uiteindelijk is dit een behoorlijk lang, niet heel erg interessant elektronisch album. Te weinig rave, te veel psych rock zeg maar. Ik kan me wel goed voorstellen dat dit album een blauwdruk was voor de latere interessantere albums uit de jaren 90. Daar ben ik het dan wel weer echt dankbaar voor! FAVO: Move any mountain, Possible worlds: Deep PSI, lightbeam soundwave
I do feel like these rave albums get sold a bit short here. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I'm not going out to a rave to listen to this. How would you even go about doing that anyway? Even if taking your headphones to a club was some sort of social norm, is this the album you'd choose? Some of the songs I wouldn't really say are suited enough for a rave, they are too slow, too quiet, and the vocals help suck out the energy. So what exactly is the point to this album? It's too calm for a rave, but it's too repetitive and has too many disco/dance elements for standard listening. The music itself isn't necessarily terrible, but where, how, and when do I listen to it?
It's worse than the music that Ross made in that episode of Friends.
this album is approximately twice as long as it should be
dosadno, naporno i na kraju krajeva skroz bezveze
Too techno funky-ish
I don't think we're going to be moving any mountains today. Outside of the recognizable singles, En-Tact sounds like rave wallpaper — fine for a club in the early 90s but flat in any other context. So many tracks blur together that I wonder how often this record has been mined for a dancefloor scene in a movie. I don't think it translates well without the crowd and the club context. Listening at home it's a letdown. But it feels less like a failed album than one stranded outside its purpose. It reminds me how quickly purpose-built music can lose its spark once its moment has passed.
Incredibly bland lyrics and delivery style with a very standard sound overall for a dance/rave aimed group. There are more interesting choices out there.
And the award for most repetitive album goes to... 2 ⭐️
Nah
You can’t be a 90s house classic and not be a little silly !!!
I was hoping for more from the scotts. no thank you
y'all really dug up their graves and shot their bones for fun with these reviews
At first I thought it was great. After the 4th song it gets really old though. "Move Any Mountain" was great though, so glad they put that first.
I should’ve bought some glow sticks. 2.5/5
Just no, one of the worst albums on this whole list 1.75
I'm not really sure how to feel about a lot of dance music. I guess it's hard to judge it sitting in front of my computer and not on a dance floor. I like a lot of what they're doing here. There's a trippy, zoned-out quality to a lot of the songs that I like. There are also a lot of things that place this firmly in it's time period (early 90s). Standout Track(s): Hear Me
A dance album that lacks energy is never a good thing.
Not a fan
some fun songs at the beginning, most of the sounds toward the end were boring, not my genre but alright
I don’t like electronica apparently.
Interesting to an extent Far too long At times it sounds like casio piano demo with a soundboard playing quotes over the top. When I'm 2/3 the way through, the idea of a second listen is exhausting
"Progen 91"/"Move any mountain" is, of course, Shamen's biggest hit. I used to dance to it a lot in the basement of the Koornbeurs. Unfortunately, the rest of the album doesn't quite reach that level.
This is kind of cool, but there's better electronica out there. I do quite like "Hyperreal Orbit," but the rest of the album is a little less interesting.
It's just not my scene at all. There were some interesting moments but I found myself just tuning it out. 4/10
It's not a bad album, just of its time and aged like milk. I'm struggling to justify giving it more than two stars, so there we go.
made good Dress To Impress background music
It was just tooooooooooo long man, why are these so damn looooooong bro just make it shorter man cmonnnnnn
okay so like obviously it's a bit ridiculous to rate a house album while sitting and listening to it motionless while working my office job but this era of house is just SOOOOO BORING to me at least listening to it in album format which is what i am doing and rating it on. so ya low 2 for me Fav song: Don't have one
A bit boring.
Pretty dated - I could be more generous given that I think it would be a couple more years before dance electronica found any consistency but the Mr.C(?) rapping keeps this below a 3.
This is a tough one to review because it sounds so incredibly dated yet in a way also so much of its era. It really encapsulates the backend of the acid house movement, but very much like the underpinning of any of those songs it is admittedly rather repetitive. I really struggled to get through a full album with this, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad album. I was never a Shamen fan. I always found them to be more of a singles band, and given this album drifts over the hour mark, it causes me to market down a bit because I just lose my interest. Worthy of a place in this list, not worthy of another listen ever again.
2.5 Time for my weekly British techno album! Thank you sir! Please, I’ll take 50 more! I love slop!
What is this. Almost completely empty! Still listenable though. 1.8
Not for me
Just not my cup of tea. Sorry lads. Simpsons: No
It was alright, but I did think that there was an issue with my Internet connection a few times during this. Also gutted that Ebenezer Goode is from one of their other albums.
Maybe it I was suffering from Oxygen Restriction I’d be able to tolerate this.
1.6
Average 90s dance
2 sterne
Wow, this sounded more 90s than I recall the 90s sounding. I don't think it holds up very well.
That’s a no
An equally-lame Euro version of C&C Music Factory, although maybe not as fun. ZZZZZZsnore. Very difficult not giving this a 1, but this doesn't make me violent, just bored AF. 3/10 2 stars.
Early dance music is hilarious. This is a fun little novelty. I didn’t hate it but obviously I didn’t take it very seriously
If geometry dash was a crappy game they’d use this album for music. Just funky enough for a bland UK audience. This was an embarrassing listen in the daytime. Some of the tracks were alright, probably better on drugs. 3/10
Oof. This was about what you'd expect from early 90's dance music, but some of it was pretty bad, and there were three different tracks where they asserted they could move move move any mountain. Human NRG sounds like what you'd hear in a spoof movie if they wanted to make a joke about the dance music at the club. There were some high points to this album that earned it a star.
Takes me back, but it's extremely dated.
Techno ravey
Album 818 of 1089 The Shamen - En-Tact (1990) Rating : 1.5 / 5 So much electronica on the list. Will do for background music if nothing else is available.
Maso
This was quite the chore to get through.
"Hooooonk mi mi mi mi mi..." I don't care that this is meant to be a rave album, this puts me to sleep. All of these 90s British electronic albums do. Well, except for you Aphex Twin. Keep doing your thing, Richard. But The Shamen? WHO CARES?! I certainly don't. I'm not even going to say that much more. The album's so repetitive that there are literally songs on here with two separate versions on the album. If that's not a padded runtime, I don't know what is. The vocals aren't my favorite. The lyrics are kind of shallow, but I can at least appreciate that they're there. I just can't do this rave stuff for this long. That's my big problem with these sorts of albums. They're SOOOOO long. It gets tiring. Each song on their own could work for a party situation. Hell, you could play multiple songs in a row and have it work. But playing this type of music for 70 minutes straight? I can't do it! It gets tiring! Whatever. I'm never going to think about this album again. 2/5.
This is a 2 star album for me. Nicely produced, the toe taps occasionally. On the third track it started to struggle to hold my interest. I like electronic music, and dance music, but this is not something that I would listen to again, or would drive me to seek out more from the discography. It is somewhat one paced, and lacking any drama. The album is too long, a common fault at the beginning of the CD era and from track 9 or so it didn't hold my interest. Would I listen to this album again? No. Would I buy this album? No. 1. "Move Any Mountain" (Progen - Beatmasters 7") 3:28 - Fun. This was a single . 3* 2. "Human Nrg (Massey)" 4:39 - This is OK. I like Electronic music and this is easy on the ear, but it is a little dull. 3* 3. "Possible Worlds: Deep PSI" 3:44 - 2*. Somewhat dull. Nice guitar. 4. "Omega Amigo" 4:44 - This drifted along. I started to lose interest. 3* 5. "Evil Is Even [Edit]" 4:23 - Starts promising and different from what has gone before. That said, it doesn't go anywhere. This album is struggling to hold my interest now. 2* 6. "Hyperreal Orbit" (Early Fade) 5:22 - OK. 3* 7. "Lightspan" 4:39 - A brighter sound with the keyboard flourishes. 3* 8. "Make It Mine" (v1.3 Lenny D Vox) 3:32 - Oh some dynamics. Nice guitar. But then the verses don't deliver on the guitar riff. 3* 9. "Oxygen Restriction" 3:49 - I lost interest . 2* 10. "Hear Me" (O My People) (Edit) 5:11 - I do not like the vocals on this track. Over long. 2* 11. "666 Edit" (Move Any Mountain) 4:48 - This does not "bang to the beat of the drums" for me. Is the pace going to pick up? Just. This does nothing for me. Dull and pointless remix. 2* 12. "Make It Minimal" 3:18 - The beginning keyboard riff had me thinking we would launch into something like Freeze's IOU. No. Again doesn't really deliver. 2* 13. "Hyperreal Selector" (Edit) 4:01 - Dull. 2* 14. "Lightspan Soundwave" (Edit) 4:19 - Dull. 2* 15. "Progen 91 [I.R.P. in the Land of Oz]" 5:21 - More of the same. 2* Average 2.4
Fine, never felt clear what this was supposed to be. A bit Buck Bumble but slower.
2 While I realize the first to take the hill is important in battle, there are at least 20 other records from this time period that advanced House/Techno/Hi-NRG music further. Other than "Move Any Mountain," (#38 US which was a breakthrough) this one is soggy and derivative. In addition, it is to blame for the dozens of generic "House music" hits that followed in its wake. Now I need to listen to Derrick May and those twin KLF records that geared it up and cooled it down.
No thanks. I think this is makes a pretty strong case that there are not in fact 1000 albums that are essential to listen to before you die.
++: Move Any Mountain, Human Nrg (Massey), Evil Is Even [Edit], Oxygen Restriction, 666 Edit, Progen 91 [I.R.P. in the Land of Oz) +: Possible Worlds: Deep PSI, Omega Amigo, Hyperreal Orbit, Make It Mine, Hyperreal Selector +-: Lightspan, Hear Me, Lightspan Soundwave -: Make It Minimal 5,5/10
Boring music. Peurile lyrics. I had never heard of these guys before and I really wonder how they made the list because they are so unexceptional. I will be generous and give them 2.
I like the music more than the vocals and lyrics. My energy wained by 666 edit. I can imagine it being used in a spin class nowadays. On the songs with less vocals, it fit for focussed working. At those 90s raves I can imagine this going down well. I don't think I would listen to without ear/headphones. The "move any mountain" across different tracks becomes repetitive.
Some of the instrumentals are very up my street but the vocals frequently ruin the vibe, a kind of low 2…