Devious Methods

Hive | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 10, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: London / Umgd
• ASIN: B00000DI25
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,719 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #97 in Music > Dance & DJ > Drum & Bass

Track Listings

1. Weapons Of Mass Destruction

2. Ultrasonic Sound

3. Questionable Directions

4. A Chain Of Prophecies

5. Experiments In Synthetic Rhythm

6. Inside The Hive

7. Sci-Clone

8. Behold A Pale Horse

9. One Way Path

10. Devious Methods

11. Moves Within Time (1st Movement)

12. Moves Within Time (2nd Movement)

13. Moves Within Time (3rd Movement)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars by far one of the best drum n bass albums I have heard., July 17, 2000

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eSTRANgED (Salt Lake , UT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Devious Methods (Audio CD)

I purchased this album four months ago after hearing his new mix tape (sick). It has not left my stereo yet. It mixes hip hop and abstract drum n bass together creating by far one of the best drum n bass albums i have heard in the five years that I have been listining to jungle or drum n bass. Anyone will appreciate and enjoy, not just jungle heads.......

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars incredible, October 24, 2001

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Aaron P. Krowne (Blacksburg, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Devious Methods (Audio CD)

If you are into "dark" drum&bass, this is your album. There is incredible variation between the songs, so that the CD as a whole is not monotonous but still has a unified mood. You will not get bored (this is rare for drum&bass artists, but Hive pulls it off beautifully.) The construction of the tracks ranges from breakneck-pace drums to slow and heavy beats. Samples are very well-placed, and a funny, or forboding, complement to the music. Use of synth and guitar samples -- albeit sparingly -- is icing on the cake. You'll listen to it over and over again (I did.)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a classic from day one, August 14, 2005

By 

A. Shelton "nastyalbert" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Devious Methods (Audio CD)

I love this album. I heard it when it came out, and I still play it out 7 years later. I don't know how the kids I was chilling with knew to buy this album back then, but they always rocked out to Ultrasonic Sound. I finally found and bought the album about a year later. That track blew my mind then, and the whole album still does now. It's a thematic, mind-bending experience through both the fierceness and lulling vibes of the drum&bass journey as it should be felt in its entirety. Synthetic Rhythms and all the Moves Within Time tracks are examples of experimental deviations that a thorough EP should consist of. Devious Methods is an all-time favorite track to turn up the bass to...feel it thump, and let your brain dive off into the deep end. All dark d'n'b dj's will be looking up to this album for years as a milestone in turntablism and music history. buy it even if you dont know anything about drum&bass, it will educate you.