Customer Reviews

Close The Door

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The song Midnight Melodic (Chase the Blues) got me interested in Terranova. I enjoy the soft but angelic vocal mixed with piano and heavy bass beats. It is definitely something for the chill periods, at the same time you can't help but bop your head listening to it sometimes. Other favorite songs on the album:
Plastic Stress
Never
Close the Door.

Get this if you like Gorillaz or garage techno.

Terranova is the only widely-known trip hop band from Germany and its music exposes a unique sound creation with their fresh blend of hip hop beats and the well-renowned European tradition of electronic music.

If you like Massive Attack or other trip hop bands, I'm sure you'll enjoy Close the Door as well.

My fav tracks include 'Turn Around' & ' Bombing Bastards'.

this is some serious intellectual downbeat. tricky is awesome and plastic stress blows me away everytime.

After i heard Terranova's DJ kicks, I decided to buy this one. Even if I expected something different, like the evil's sounds of their DJ kicks, i can tell you guys this is a great album. It is true it's slowly and the dark tones envolves this CD, but it doesn't mean that can be boring, not at all. I find that "midnight melodic" and the final reprise can be considered as real classics, . "Close the door" it's also a great song. On the other side, Coco's voice gives a great feeling on every track she's involved. The other guests are fine too, but i believe that Cath Coffey's voice doesn't catch the esprit of this record. Anyway, it worths to have it.

Considering the abundance of semi-good electronic music coming from the smallest, most obscure corners of the world, Terra Nova has certainly accomplished something to make themselves stand out. Sure, you won't find any breakthrough electronic masterpieces that make you dance on this album. If that's what you're looking for, listen to Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole again. Nor will you find any resemblance to K & D. I bought this expecting nothing and I was pleasantly surprised. My suggestion is to do the same when you walk into your record store. Expect nothing. Then you'll be very pleased with Close The Door as it lends whatever environment you're playing this CD in, an air of sophistication and mystery. This is music you play at an evening party while wearing Gucci and sipping Courvoisier in the company of beautiful people. Hey, and even if you don't wear Gucci and sip CV, it's always simply fun to pretend. Buy this CD and relax and feel lavishness being sprinkled on you because that's what Terra Nova is doing. It's a little bit of hip hop, a little bit of dub, a little bit of big beat, but all in all, you can hear the boys of Terra Nova working very hard to captivate your ears and to induce a level of sexuality seldomly heard.

I had first heard of this outfit via the "Compost" label and, oddly enough, Kruder & Dorfmeister. That being said, this really falls into a slightly different category than what I had expected.

If I had to try to classify these guys, I'd say they were the stronger hip-hop side of K&D. There are many guest appearances on this release, the most notable of which is Tricky. And, if you know what Tricky sounds like (pre-his latest release), you'll get the idea. If K&D tried to remix the "pre-millenium tension" cd, you'd get this release.

It's not a bad release. In fact, it's one that I'm glad I own. However, it can be very dark and depressing at times, which is fine in healthy doses. Whereas much of K&D and Theivery's stuff is good for sitting back in the Herman Miller sipping your favorite "adult beverage," this cd is almost suitable for prowling the city streets at night, in the rain, wearing a big hooded coat, etc.

If you like music like "lamb" or "tricky", this cd is a must. Listen to Tracks 4, 5, 9 or 10 to check out if you like it. But don't listen too often to this CD, because after a while it can become a little bit boring

After hearing numerous tracks floating around on compilations, Terranova finally releases the anticipated Close The Door album. Boy, what a disappointment. This album is a perfect example of a group with a sound, a very good sound. Yet, on this album, they proceed to push out half-hearted tracks with vocals that seem old, at best. At their best, they sound like a trippy version of DJ Krush, with a jazzy flavor. Don't look for that on this album.

They have two hip-hop tracks, "Midnight Melodic" and "x-files", that go no where quickly. They have a hideous guitar track called "Never" that I would never play in my lifetime. "Sweet Bitter Love" which just goes on and on like Chinese water torture, never capturing one bit of attention.

"Plastic Stress" is the perfect example of what's wrong with this album. Portishead like vocals with an annoying guitar riff over some dub beat. Way too slow to be of any satisfaction. It's not even "chill-out" or "ambient" or "dub", which I could easily accept. This album has reached a new low.

Then you hear tracks like "Sugarhill" or "Millenium Bug" and you say to yourself, "This is more like what I'm talking about". Instrumentals that aren't slamming, but they are at least interesting soundscapes. These two tracks are infinitely more enjoyable than the rest of the album combined, which adds up to ten useless tracks. It makes me wonder how good this album could've been? Where is the "Tokyo Tower" of this album?

How could a group with so much potential put out such a stale project? With vocals and beats that make the album sound commercial and outdated. Is that something one should strive for? How can they produce such a fabulous mix for the DJ Kicks series and follow this up with an album that is as lousy as Endtroducing... from DJ Shadow? A downer from K7!