Jurassic Shift [Extra tracks]

Ozric Tentacles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Original Masters UK
• ASIN: B000007WSP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #546,053 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

1998 reissue on Snapper of the neo-psychedelic act's 1993 album for the Dovetail label. Digitally mastered, it features all eight original tracks & adds 'Feng Shui Live' as a bonus track. Nine tracks total.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Space rock and dinosaurs., July 18, 2001

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Lord Chimp (Monkey World) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jurassic Shift (Audio CD)

Ah, yet another trippy excursion into the Ozrics' twisted world of swirling synthesizers, quirky guitar intonations, ethnic influences, and one of the tightest rhythm sections around. This album captures all of the best Ozric qualities, making it one of their best. The title track totally rules, being an imaginative piece that sets a busy climb of slow, ambient soundscapes sprinkles with jagged guitar quotes, giant bass lines, and strokes of wacky synths that culminates in an explosive climax. "Feng Shui" is much the same, but concurrently very different. It spends a good eight minutes building to its exhilarating finale, which is perhaps the closest this band gets to a heavy metal riff. "Vita Voom's" middle section is one of the band's most beautiful moments, despite the heavy, thumping bass and drums at the beginning. Colorful washes of synthesizers and acoustic guitar create a sublime musical canvas. What more can be said? Ozrics rock, and this is one of their best. Apparently this music is wild on acid or whatever, though I've never tried that. I can say it's pretty killer with your senses intact, though.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars stands the test of time, March 16, 2006

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D. K. Jackson (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jurassic Shift (Audio CD)

My history with ozric tentacles is a sort of strange one. I first heard about them maybe six years ago when I was in a hard core prog rock phase with King Crimson as my favorite band at the time. The music is mostly imporv based and instrumental with the occasional trippy vocals added in.

The sound reminds me in a way of early 90s late 80s music that hasnt totally shed the 80s electronic touches which in a weird way the best comparison I can think of are the Stone Roses. Not that they share any musical similarites but theres an experienced 80s element thats really different from a lot of 80s revival thats going on now.

Their improv tribal beat based music has a real dance element that isn't in a lot of prog rock. Id reccoment this for anyone into more psychedelic dance, prog rock or more intresting jam music fans. After all these years I still can come back to this because of the diversity in guitar playing, electronic touches and just the good beats.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Uneven, but with some great tracks, February 24, 2002

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Ryan (Somerville, MA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jurassic Shift (Audio CD)

*** 1/2

Allmusic.com recommends 'Jurassic Shift' as *THE* Ozric Tentacles CD to get. Personally, I'd go with 'Erpland'. JS has a similar sound to that CD, but its tracks are a little more drawn-out, a little less focused. Which is not to say that it's without some excellent tunes -- the title track builds a climactic sonic landscape around some great guitar jamming, the caffeinated 'Vita Voom' is ideal mood music for zooming down the freeway, 'Sunhair' and 'Stretchy' weave pleasurable, floaty washes of texture -- however, the other tracks just sort of burble along without going anywhere interesting. 'Feng Shui' exemplifies this problem with like ten minutes of vaguely oriental mild noodling, and a noisy "heavy metal" sequence grafted onto the end for good measure.

Overall, the good tunes are very enjoyable and worthy of eventually being added to an Ozrics collection, but, IMO, the mediocre ones hold JS back from 'essential' status.