Daily Lama [Import]

De-Phazz | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Jazz
• Copy Protected
• ASIN: B00006L6YE
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,500 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Looks

2. You Stayed

3. Whats Behind

4. Wrong Dance

5. Atomic Cocktail

6. Cup Of Hope

7. True North

8. Almost Gone

9. Nightmare

10. Preachin To The Choir

11. Try

12. Dummes Spiel

13. Things And Times

14. Belle De Jour

15. Wait

16. Down The Railroad

17. Desert D Amour

18. Style

19. Word In A Rhyme

20. Jean-Mi

Editorial Reviews

The fourth album for the German dance act is a pleasant cocktail combining dub, disco, soul, jazz, electronica, loungey Zulu-Grooves, a touch of Dancehall & every possible Latin-rhythm. The followup to 2001's critically acclaimed, 'Death By Chocolate'. Digipak. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars De Phazz turns Pop!!, April 16, 2003

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"e_organa" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Daily Lama (Audio CD)

Reviewer: Esther Garcia from London
I would hardly classify De Phazz latest CD as electric jazz. It is very far away from the innovative and sublime Godsdog. In Daily Lama De Phazz seems to be looking more at Pop music and Brazilian rythms than at those electronic rythms and mixes that made them famous. Songs look more conventional that anything else.
As a De Phazz fan I have to say that I like the Album. It is
good, but it is not what I expected (something like Godsdog). So just be aware of it: a good CD but nothing new.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of these things is JUST like the other!, March 4, 2004

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Daly Mavorneen "Brimstone" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Daily Lama (Audio CD)

One of these things is JUST like the other!
If you like the retro-vocal melancholy, jazzy, cafeteria-style, insular-yet-panoramic, lush, smoky-lounge, orchestral, strange, ecstatic, DJ-scratchy, sublime, sampled and genre-bending compostions of Art of Noise, The Matthew Herbert Big Band, Enzso, Funki Porcini, Yello, Caleb's Cosmosis, Hugh Marsh, Future Sound of London, United Future Organization or Bowery Electric, then you will love this.

It gets 4/5 because their previous CD, "Death By Chocolate" is slightly better. Start there!

'NUFF SAID.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strange, German r'n'b electronica, well worth a listen, September 14, 2008

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Carsten Knoch (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daily Lama (Audio CD)

De-Phazz is a revolving cast of singers and performers around German jazz/electronica producer Pit Baumgartner. For more than 10 years, De-Phazz has released an interesting and unique blend of jazz, German cabaret music, electronica, hip hop, reggae/dancehall and r'n'b. Baumgartner changes his lineup between albums, and there are very few singers who stay for more than a record or two. The music is sung mostly in English, but there are songs in German and French, too. Everything has a delightfully old-school, continental European touch: a 40s-style cabaret tune here, a 50s Brazilian-inflected German Schlager there. But there's also some seriously funky, and not-German-at-all soul here: a track like `True North' shows off Baumgartner's production chops - chops that could grace any contemporary `big' r'n'b artist's album. The path he chooses, though, is quirkier than that. And it's a very likable quirkiness, one I find myself returning to time and again. The sound is cultured and aware of the world's musics in a way that British or American electronica isn't. And that makes this first-grade pop music that doesn't become dated.