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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the BEST electronic compilations, December 25, 2002
This review is from: MTV's Amp (Audio CD)
First that all, I'm an electronic music fan from Colombia. I remember that my first SERIOUS contact with electronic music was the AMP TV show, via cable television, way back to 1996. In south america, just like in the U.S. the fresh new sound of the AMP TV show captivated a lot of people like me. And just like in the U.S., here in Colombia, finding good quality electronic music was a lot harder than now...
So when this CD came out, I ordered it in a music store that worked with imports, and WOW... even now after six years, few discs on my collection have the ammount of quality that this one has. It has the biggest artists in electronic music, as well as some of their most famous tracks. Of course, this cd may not appeal to the "bang-bang-boom-boom" techno-fans, because every track on this album is pure flowing style. Real quality. Buy it NOW.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An old collection...., April 17, 2002
This review is from: MTV's Amp (Audio CD)
If you're going to review this disc, you have to look at its release date. Yep, 1997. It came out only one month after the Chem Bros "Dig Your Own Hole". While the songs on here might be overplayed now, they were brand new when AMP came out. And for us Americans, AMP was just about the best electronic collection out there at the time. Yeah yeah, it's just MTV trying to capitalize on a new trend (at the time) but it's still good music. And it gave people who bought it just for BRB a chance to hear other really good, but not quite as popular, songs. It was the first time I'd heard Aphex Twin, Photek, and Underworld (forgive me, i'm American, and it was 1997) and after this, the Richard D. James Album and Second Toughest in the Infants were the next albums I bought. So yeah, while now it all looks old and overplayed, at its release, this was some quality hard to find stuff for Americans. One of the few actual good things MTV has done for music recently.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An artifact of '97 Electronica, February 11, 2000
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This review is from: MTV's Amp (Audio CD)
It's funny, in looking back at this CD, I feel some peculiar nostalgia in listening to what folks in 1997 believed was the future of music. As for the content, there are some essentials. Underworld's "Pearl's Girl" still melts my cortex with its synth line that ebbs like amniotic fluid. The tracks by Photek and Apex Twin are still great abstract electronica(see the Mille Plateaux label for further excursions.) There are also some overproduced misfires like the Chemical Brothers remix of "Voodoo People and the Chrystal Method's work that sounds like Musak for future "extreme sports" commericals(whoops! it did.) Overall, Amp marks a time when MTV had this brief period of innovation before the advent of the Boy Bands and Total Request Live.
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