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The hype of the year in U.K. electronica ("It is to the '90s what "Sgt. Pepper" was to the '60s" - "Melody Maker") -- and worth almost every overheated word. "New Forms" is actually a misleading title. The 23 tracks on this double CD by drum-and-bass ace Roni Size and Reprazent, his Bristol, England-based co-op of DJs, rappers, singers and live musicians, draw from much that is familiar in dance music: jungle's high-speed rattle; the pneumatic pant of vintage techno and house; the beatnik-fuzak swing of acid jazz; the whale-noise school of old-time German synth music. The attraction here is in the shape-shifting, the way Size and Reprazent shuffle, stack and scatter the obvious and the incongruous -- 150-plus beats per minute, the loamy groan of an acoustic bass, the dropout dynamics of dub, the soul-siren call of vocalists Onallee and Bahamadia -- without tripping over their own cunning. "New Forms" will not be Digital Britain's breakthrough album in America; this is a record of big ideas, not of accessi
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Track List
- Railing
- Brown Paper Bag
- New Forms
- Let's Get It On
- Digital
- Matter Of Fact
- Mad Cat
- Heroes
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Share The Fall - (Full Vocal Mix) (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Watching Windows
- Beatbox
- Morse Code
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Destination (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Intro
- Hi-Potent
- Trust Me
- Change My Life
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Share The Fall (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Down
- Jazz
- Hot Stuff
- Ballet Dance
- Bonus Track: Electricks
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