Mary Anne Hobbs Presents Wild Angels

Mary Anne Hobbs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: PLANET MU
• ASIN: B002JTMO4U
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,370 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mark Pritchard - ?

2. Hudson Mohawke - Spotted

3. Mike Slott - Knock Knock

4. Brackles - LHC

5. Gemmy - Rainbow Rd.

6. Untold - Discipline

7. Tranquill - Payroll (Paul White's Clean Dub)

8. Architeq - Sleeping Bear Lament (Take Remix)

9. Rustie - Zig-Zag

10. Mono/poly - Red and Yellow Toys

11. Hyetal - We Should Light a Fire

12. Starkey - Gutter Music V.I.P.

13. Darkstar - Videotape

14. Floating Points - Esthian III

15. Sunken Foal - Of Low Count and Light Pocket

16. Teebs - WLTA

17. Nosaj Thing - IOIO

18. Legion of Two - And Now We Wait

Editorial Reviews

BBC Radio One's firebrand DJ Mary Anne Hobbs presents the third selection of her favorite new artists with the Planet Mu label. The phrase wild angel was an expression that Hobbs used for the influential playing of the late Alice Coltrane on her West Coast Rocks special; it could just as easily describe the music on this album. Mike Paradinas at Planet Mu loved the expression and suggested it as a title. Wild Angels is a great transatlantic showcase for emerging new artists who fuse existing genres like hip hop, dubstep, grime, and soul into exotic and exciting new forms. Coming from Los Angeles, Glasgow, Bristol, and Philadelphia, they represent a growing new global electronic music scene. The mixture of underground classics and exclusive new tracks makes it an essential purchase for the curious and the converted. This collection features pioneering tracks from Glasgow's Hudson Mohawke and Rustie, who have been highly influential on a host of new artists. Starkey's underground dancefloor anthems Gutter Music VIP and Mark Pritchard's devastating cerebral piece ? accompany exclusive tracks from next-generation artists such as Teebs and Gemmy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An essential glimpse into the future of music, September 28, 2009

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This review is from: Mary Anne Hobbs Presents Wild Angels (Audio CD)

Mary Anne Hobbs is now officially the queen of the electronic new school with her weekly radio show offering a portal to the freshest electronic experiments and cutting edge urban sounds from across the globe. Wild Angels is her third compilation for the cutting edge Planet Mu label and is another great album showcasing where new electronic music is at in 2009 and beyond.

In true experimental style Mark Pritchard opens proceedings with his catchily entitled `?' in which an electronic drone slowly morphs into a slow atmospheric melodic soundtrack to your favourite sci-fi movie.
Wobbly beat merchant Hudson Mohawke then wakes us from our deep space coma with his trademark messed up future take on hip hop before Dublin's Mike Slott transports us into an instrumental broken nu-soul wonderland with the excellent `Knock Knock'.

Brackles gives your bass bins a medical with the relentless lo-end frequency attack of `LHC' as some nice key work and sampled female vocals add a little light relief. One of the finds of the compilation for me is Gemmy who shows the UK Funky massive they need to up their production standards as he comes through with a deep bassline gem called `Rainbow Road', miles ahead of most of the game.

So far so melodic but like any inner city soundtrack worth it's salt the compilation is not without it's darker moments. Untold twists some exotic percussion beyond recognition with the unnervingly entitled `Discipine', Rustie's `Zig Zag' is an intense rave brain basher - only for the headstrong and Legion of Two hammers the final nails into the coffin of those left standing on the dancefloor with his brooding `And Now We Wait'.

Dark Star and Sunken Foal show that musicians can work in harmony with the deep electronic underworld and one of the break though names of 2009, Floating Points also lends his undoubted talents to the comp as do Starkey, Architeq and a host of other pioneering electronic souls.

An essential glimpse into the future of music.

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