Made In Japan [Live]

Deep Forest | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 2011)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Epic
• ASIN: B0000296JO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,394 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

We never expected a live album from Deep Forest, the two French keyboardists (Eric Monquet and Michel Sanchez) whose stylishly peculiar music (ambient meets dance meets Pygmy vocalese) is a laboratory-like concoction of clever sampling, synthesizers, and studio savvy. Sanchez, in fact, confesses to stage fright. Yet here we find the two lads on a Tokyo stage in 1998, accompanied by four musicians and three singers, breathing life--at times, even fire--into their digitally spliced global village. It's a different sound for the group, and mostly an invigorating one. The real-time human element permeating Made in Japan infuses DF's carefully crafted atmospheres with an energizing vitality and sense of spontaneity. Any absence of studio sophistication in Deep Forest's live sound is compensated for by the music's celebratory mood and the concert's interactive, transcultural, communal environment. This serves to reinforce an ongoing subtext in Deep Forest's aesthetic--the desire to draw a musical thread through the mystical pursuits of far-flung cultures. Highlights: the beguiling grooves of "Bohemian Ballet," the mysterious propulsion of "Café Europa," and the groove-fueled choir that drives "Forest Power." --Terry Wood

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a pleasant surprise, November 30, 1999

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C. Riker "silver_spring" (Silver Spring, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Made In Japan (Audio CD)

When I heard a few months ago that Deep Forest was going to release a live Cd I was surprised. One would think this studio mastered group combining world beats with dance grooves might not be able to pull off a live album. Prepare to be surprised!

The CD combines their most popular songs from the preceeding three albums. Performing with Deep Forest are several singers from various backgrounds. This is a very beautiful CD and relaxing too. If you want a great CD and are new to the World beat realm pick up a copy. I think you will enjoy this CD.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh my gosh, it's rockin'-awesome!, December 25, 1999

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[e-mail] (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Made In Japan (Audio CD)

A couple of years ago, Deep Forest toured through my area, and I thought that a live concert by a band whose music is built almost entirely on samples an sequencers seemed a bit pointless. Next time Deep Forest comes my way, I won't make the same mistake. This album is nothing less than brilliant. Each song is completely reinterpreted, with live vocals and gorgeous instrumentation. They walk a delicate line between making these reinterpretations pointless and making them completely unrecognizable, and they do it with uncommon grace. Every track sounds fresh, the album has an unlikely consistency considering the differences between the albums from which the original songs are culled, and the production on the entire disc is perfect. When most bands who try their hands at live recording fall flat on their faces, the best concert album I've ever heard has come from an unlikely source.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best live CD I've ever heard, August 31, 2002

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Distant Voyageur "Nicholas Computer" (Io) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Made In Japan (Audio CD)

I'm not too much into live albums. In general, I am more into the studio recorded albums than I am into live albums and I hate the redundant clapping and shouting but Made In Japan is a HUGE exception. They actually improved the songs!

Many of the songs on here while they sound good on their parent albums sound greatly improved especially those from the Comparsa albums. Green & Blue in it's parent album sounds good but the live version on Made In Japan sounds absolutely incredible! I especially love the live versions of Deep Weather, The Hunter and their internation smash hit Sweet Lullaby. While the original version has a sort of danceable beat the live version on this CD to me is better. It's great to hear their older songs given different drum loops with Sweet Lullaby being the prime example. In fact I like the live version alot more with the beats sounding a bit more original. The more complex sound of Sweet Lullaby magnifies that tracks power.

The musicianship is absolutely incredible. Forest Power is just plain breathtaking with fusions of rock, world, pop, jazz, funk and New Age all melted together.

While I don't really recommend live albums that much Made In Japan however I have to say is a must have.