Per chi come me non è un frequentatore di locali dance e ancor di più un ascoltatore, incappare in un disco come questo è indubbiamente un piacere. Sebbene la ricetta musicale prodotta, campionata, assemblata e ri arrangiata dal duo inglese non sia musica amata da tutti, i due djs Tom Findlay e Andy Cato più noti come Groove Armada confezionano un ottimo cd. Vario, poliedrico, contaminato e originale "Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)" parte bene fin dal titolo. Infatti, si passa da spunti decisamente plastici e danzerecci a momenti più "musicali", ricercati e d'atmosfera. Il viaggio musicale dell'armata del groove si colora così di hip-hop, dub, soul, funky e bassi tuz tuz tanto cari ai Djs delle balere estive. Inoltre i due hanno collaborato con diversi artisti per autocontaminarsi e portare nel loro genere una vena creativa che a loro non appartiene.
Il disco si apre con le atmosfere hip/hop thrilling di "Suntoucher" vocalizzata da Jeru the Damaja, una piacevole sorpresa. Il primo singolo è "Superstylin" ottimo connubbio tra dance e Dub con un cantato in puro Giamaican Style. La seguente "Drifted" è un trip di psichedelia elettronica molto rilassante . Atmosfera che dà rilassante si fà magica e piacevolissima con "Little by Little", canzone che vede protagonista la bellissima ed intensa voce della leggenda vivente del cantautore Folk/ Soul Richie Havens. Nel pezzo seguente "Fogma" i due djs scendono profondamente nell'house più classica. Si continua con "My Friend" canzone-tormentone di qualche estate fà che cmq ri-ascoltata fuori dal bombardamento radiofonico dà la possibilità di gustare la voce della cantante Rachel Brown. Ultima menzione per "Edge Hill" una canzone con al suo interno chitarra acustica, arrangiamenti sinfonici e suoni space. Ottima.
Atmosfere rilassate e al contempo groovy fanno di questo album un ottimo prodotto, a mio parere da avere, insieme a pochissimi altri nel suo genere.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Suntoucher (06:31)
"SV
Urban Organic, Mic mechanic
Super-human MC powers help me fly around the planet.
Touch the Microphone device, whole countries get flattened
Saving damsels in distress so young girls don't panic.
Putting MCs under pressure till they crack like ceramic
Always thought they could flow but sink like the Titanic.
Rhymes rip through your skull like icebergs through the hull
Survive the impact, and arctic cold freezes your soul.
Create a new style, then break the mold
Compositions are controlled, and liable to explode
like land mines, my crew blows through like wind chimes.
Make it hot like fire, 200 proof like Moonshine.
Risky, playing yourself is risky
And the flows mad jazzy like Dizzy Gillespe.
And the sound be harmonious and deadly
like a harpy call either break one like Wayne Gretzky.
No man can test me, so why try?
Focus like a samurai, stronger than a Maitai.
Or a Tsunama... I mean Tsunami
I rock it from MTV, to the BBC.
Radioactive waves short out your TV
LESB check it for me in the next galaxy.
Put it in a time capsule till the next century
In a black out use it for electricity.
Danger, high voltage
Don't feed me their daily dosage
I break it down mathematically, 99.9 is a percentage.
Like closing fine wine the rhymes are vintage
And the universal will gives me strength like spinach.
With dinage, I eat it like a tofu sandwich
With cabbage, I ask your girl, she knows that
I'm not the average... Nigga... who plays to pull the trigga'
Reality's the root of the rhymes that I configure.
Phony... Baloney, swear like Don Corleone
But when shit hit the fan they start crying like Pretty Tony.
Tender like Roni... but wish to be bad like Bobby
Been there, done that, smashed up
Rockin' rhymes is my hobby.
You're probably, like, what's he on
Cause I rock it from the start, till the beat is gone.
Not in the mafia but I'm the Microphone Don
And the words that I shoot out my mouth are Teflon.
Jeru never touch ya, Microphone wrecka'
Meet out in the stretcha'.
Step up in... my center
Try to match wits but the mentor will crush you
Jeru the Damager, the Suntoucher.
"
02 Superstylin' (06:01)
Enter in de dance, plug it in an we begin
Crowd up in de center, they watch fi de rydim
Watch the way we drop it in a mix timin
Rise and amplifyin when we come in wit de swin
Just followin the back an naturally harmonizin
Climb into position wit synchronized things
Live from out a ghetto, We maximizin
Sound of the Groove Armada
We Superstylin... we superstylin... we superstylin
Sometime... Can you feel de pressure does unwind
Sometime...
Sometime... Trough de day and trough de night
Sometime...
Sometime... You can make our pressure does unwind
Sometime...
Sometime... Its for your spirit and your mind
Sometime...
That's how we drop it on de up on de line
One time lyrics that must stick on your mind
Pop a bass line, I'll go prop and provide
My MC super, I'll go double on de right...
Sometime... Can you feel de pressure does unwind
Sometime...
Sometime... Trough de day and trough de night
Sometime...
Sometime... You can make our pressure does unwind
Sometime...
Sometime... Its for your spirit and your mind
Sometime...
Baby let's recline...
Worldwide...
Enter in de dance, Plug it in an we begin
Crowd up in de center, they watch fi de rydim
Watch the way we drop it in a mix timin
Rise and amplifyin when we come in wit de swin
Just followin the back an naturally harmonizin
Climb into position wit synchronized things
Live from out a ghetto, We maximizing
Sound of the Groove Armada
We Superstylin... we superstylin... we superstylin
Sometime... Can you feel de pressure does unwind
Sometime...
Sometime... Trough de day and trough de night
Sometime...
Sometime... You can make our pressure does unwind
Sometime...
Sometime... Its for your spirit and your mind
Sometime...
04 Little by Little (05:30)
Give it out
Give it out
Give it out
Give it out
Give it away, give it away
Give it out
Give it out
Give it away
Today today today today today today today today today, yeah yeah yeah
Perhaps we're on own way
Perhaps we've gone too far
Perhaps we should slow down
Be where we really are, really are, yeah
Today, today
If you believe that there is no other way
Trying living, today today
Little by little in your own way
Today
Little by little
Trying living today, today, little by little
We're in today today
If you believe that there is no other way
Trying living today, today, little by little
You're on your own way
Perhaps we're on own way
Perhaps we've gone too far
Perhaps we should slow down
Be where we really are
Where we really are, ohh
Where we really are
Today, today, trying living today, today
Today
Little by little
Trying living today today, little by little
Be where we really are
Little by little
Today, today
...Be where we really are...
05 Fogma (06:54)
Bomb. One Tonne Bomb.
Some'll call me call me bomb.
Want to bomb bomb bomb.
Bombabadeebabombdeebomb
(mixed and repeated)
06 My Friend (05:01)
Whenever I'm down
I call on you my friend
A helping hand you lend
In my time of need
Whenever I'm down
I call on you my friend,
I call on you my friend
Listen, Listen, Listen
(Chorus)
Whenever I'm down
I call on you my friend
A helping hand you lend
In my time of need
Whenever I'm down
I call on you my friend,
I call on you my friend
Whenever I'm down
And all thats going on
Is really going wrong
Just one of those days again
You say the right things
To keep me moving on
To keep me going strong
Whenever I'm down
ain't nobody
Whenever I'm down
I call on you my friend
A helping hand you lend
In my time of need
Whenever I'm down
I call on you my friend,
I call on you my friend
Whenever I'm down
And all thats going on
Is really going wrong
Just one of those days again
You say the right things
To keep me moving on
To keep me going strong
Repeat Chorus
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