Birdy Nam Nam

Birdy Nam Nam | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Uncivilized World
• ASIN: B000E8N5FK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,364 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #54 in Music > Dance & DJ > Turntablists

Track Listings

1. READY FOR WAR, READY FOR WHUT? - 3'05''

2. BODY, MIND, SPIRIT... - 3'35''

3. TOO MUCH SKUNK TONIGHT... - 3'35''

4. '11''

5. KIND OF LAID BACK - 3'47''

6. JAZZ IT AT HOME - 5'57''

7. WE DRUMMIN’ - 1'15''

8. NEW BIRTH - 3'03''

9. ESCAPE - 3'31''

10. L’INTERLUDE DE QUALITÉ - 1'23''

11. ENGINEER FEAR - 3'35''

12. RAINSTORMING - 2'13''

13. IL Y A UN CAUCHEMAR DANS MON PLACARD (Feat. D-Styles & Mike Boo) -

14. MIGRATION - 5'06''

15. ABBESSES - 6'27''

16. NEW STEPS/BREAKING BARRIERS (Bonus Track) - 3'02''

17. FROM HERE TO THERE (Bonus Track) - 2'48''

Editorial Reviews

Alternately gloomy or funky, shot through with electronic acids and methodical cuts, the Birdy Nam Nam sound dispenses with plucking a guitar or crafting a chord on a Rhodes. Pushing back the limits of that raw material, these merciless crate-diggers deliver considered music, a jewel of vinyl composition that owes as much to DJ Shadow as to Sun Ra, as much to the electronic experts of the 1990s as to the 1980s rap producers. Birdy Nam Nam no longer play records, they play music. You can get off on Birdy Nam Nam without knowing that all the music you hear was assembled by DJs from mountains of vinyl - but the additional DVD enlightens us about Birdy Nam Nam’s working methods - filmed in situ, in the studio and on the stage and includes live versions of the album tracks and recent unreleased pieces. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never a dull moment, May 17, 2007

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K. D. Kelly "home and away wrecker" (sf, ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Birdy Nam Nam (Audio CD)

Somewhere between Aphex Twin and Sesame Street, between bubbly and unnerving, resides this extremely off-kilter, inventive marriage of sound that's part jazz, part lounge, part hip-hop. For a quartet of French DJs who readily admit they haven't yet learned how to play instruments or read music, this turntablism experiment comes across as brilliantly polished (no instruments were used while making the album, just other records). Even when confronted with tracks like "L'interlude de qualite," in which a contemplative flute accompanies what sounds like amplified field recordings of arachnids molting -- and "Rainstorming," which pairs a slacker groove with scary bipolar whispers -- the album never seems deliberately quirky. This is Bjork's turf; J Dilla's "Donuts" with broader horizons, Avalanches with a thicker resume. The glue that holds Nam Nam all together are the infectious, fluid beats underlying all the cut-and-paste layers, particularly strong on the polyrhythmic skin-burrowing ambi-prog morsel, "Migration." Look for Nam Nam to get even more inventive on future releases when the DJs teach themselves how to play instruments and begin sampling themselves.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Birdy Nam Nam, August 10, 2006

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Laura Gonzalez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Birdy Nam Nam (Audio CD)

Amazing. A revolution in turntabalism. I have never heard such creativity. If your into this kind of music, I suggest buying this, I was very pleased.

5.0 out of 5 stars Needs More Attention, March 30, 2010

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B. Szilagyi (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Birdy Nam Nam (MP3 Download)

I don't have much to say that hasn't been said in the other 5 star reviews, but I felt that I should give this a 5 star rating in hopes of convincing more people to listen to Birdy Nam Nam. You'll be glad you did!