Extractions [Import]

Dif Juz (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
• ASIN: B00000E0RI
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,386 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Croswinds

2. A Starting Point

3. Silver Passage

4. The Last Day

5. Love Insane

6. Marooned

7. Two Fine Days (And a Thunderstorm)

8. Echo Wreck

9. Twin and Earth

10. Gunet [*]

11. Soarn [*]

12. Hu [*]

13. Re [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally beautiful, amazing record, October 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Extractions (Audio CD)

I had this on vinyl as a kid in the 80's - and it sounds great on CD. It has aged beautifully and sounds completley timeless and mindblowing even now. A gorgeous record. I pull this CD out constantly and listen to it... I always seem to be in the mood. It's just really, really, really great.

I wish 4ad had put the "No Motion" track from the "Lonley Is an Eyesore" compilation at the end of the original LPs 9 tracks here, rather than 4 select tracks from the first two EPs (which are available, with 'No Motion' on the recent 'Soundpool' CD) - but beggars can't be choosers! I guess that's what CD burners are for...

A great album with fantastic production and complex, ambient, wind-chime, jazzy sounds... will put you in a great mood. Timeless!

Why did they break up so fast?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Art Rock from the Heart of the 80's, June 5, 2003

By 

Ross Amador (Alhambra, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Extractions (Audio CD)

Dif Juz apparently didn't remain together much longer after the release of the "No Motion" track which appeared on the 4AD compilation "Lonely is an Eyesore". This is truly unfortunate because the track reflects a band beginning to peak and show incredible promise.

This album is entirely instrumental, comprising tracks from previous Dif Juz releases. Deceptively complex, the music lies somewhere between progressive rock and mid-career Cocteau Twins (or imagine a softer, dreamier version of Mogwai). For an album that is now 17 years old it has aged extremely well and still bears repeated listenings on my CD player. Highly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Music, Questionable Production, March 29, 2006

By 

Thomas Horan (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Extractions (Audio CD)

In the early eighties, Dif Juz released a series of brilliant, instrumental EPs characterized by a muscular, cold-wave guitar and rhythm section gliding through gorgeous sonic landscapes. Fortunately, prime examples of this alluring music fill out the final 1/3 of this release. Tracks 1-9 are the band's sole full-length for 4AD. The album material itself is wonderful (especially Twin and Earth, Last Day, Marooned, and Echo Wreck), but it suffers from heavy overproduction by Robin Guthrie, who seems intent on presenting the band's seminal post-rock as though it were new-age, coffee-house background music. Put down your latte, listen closely, and you can hear the masterpiece that might have been.

Dif Juz's sound more compelling and distinctive when they stick to their minimalistic roots, as anyone who has heard the absorbing Soundpool compilation can attest. I did like Extractions. I guess I just expected a little more (or less).