Night Works [Import]

Layo & Bushwacka | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 8, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Xl Recordings UK
• ASIN: B000068C24
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,720 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Vinyl

2. Ladies And Gentlemen

3. Shining Through

4. Sahara

5. We Meet At Last

6. Mainlining

7. Let The Good Times Roll

8. All Night Long

9. Strike

10. Sleepy Language

11. Blind Tiger

12. Automate

13. Love Story

14. 2MRW

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Dance/Electronic Album of the Year, September 10, 2002

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Karl Miller "kemspeaks" (Phoenixville, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Works (Audio CD)

I first heard tracks from this CD while in Europe this summer, and had to bring home a copy. The follow up to one of the true suprise albums of 1999, ("Low Life"), "Night Works" dances a razor thin line between electronic dance anthems and subtle Portishead-like after-hours chill music.
It's hard to describe the sounds of Layo and Bushwacka, but if electronic grooves are something that you enjoy, and you're looking for something different than mainstream, you owe it to yourself to check this release out. The mix of samples, horns, guitars and vocals commands attention from start to finish, and the tracks are mixed incredibly well. Be sure not to miss the highlight of the set, "Love Story", a Devo meets Nina Simone chiller that has to be one of the best songs recorded this year.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oxymore of the year: intelligent house..., September 14, 2002

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Takis Tz. (InYourHead) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night Works (Audio CD)

The reason i dont go to clubs that play "house" is because most of it is unintelligent and monotonous uninspired music. Plus, exactly because it is easy to make everyone does it. You know what Clint Eastwood has said about a certain part of our body and how everyone "has one". Well, same goes for house records, everyone makes one.
But then comes along "Layo & Bushwacka" to throw my theories to the trashbin. This is an intelligent album! Most of what "happens" in it, from the beats to the riffs to the strings has a subtlety about it. And that is exactly what makes "Night works" stand out from the rest.
I dont claim to be an expert on house, nor would i want to be, but i think it would be fair to say that to label this merely "house" would be an injustice to the music offered here.
"Night works" is a beautiful, at times imposing and intimidating, work of music. Its atmosphere keeps expanding on you as you listen to it, the music functions like water, it occupies the space it is played in.
There many ideas finding their place in the LP, all as i said happening in a "not-in-your-face way".
As far as "dance" or "club albums" are concerned this is easily the most interesting release i have heard so far this year.
I read somewhere that Layo and Bushwacka are veterans of the "house scene". If so, this shows in a very convincing way.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Drifting on the Electronic Highway, May 7, 2003

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50miles (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night Works (Audio CD)

Layo & Bushwacka, first heard of by name only, till I got the chance to online listen to a live-set. Superb... These two guys are innovative in a sense rarely found. Most of the time, producers keep milking the same cow. None of that here. NightWorks keeps surprising, being accessible but also deep and stimulating to undergo.

This disc brings summer from the speakers, offers fun and warmth, uptempo and relaxing. L&B use groovy, indeep basslines with light drum+bass, congas and a high flying melody.

In order to get a good picture of the album, listen to "Let the good times roll". Okay, it's the best, but the rest is though diverse, the same level.. Fantastic..

I scale L&B in the same order as Sasha, for both go beyond constructed boundaries. If you like Sasha, LTJ Bukem, Thievery Corporation, Morcheeba, David Holmes or Orbital: get this one..

It's a keeper you won't regret, nor bore. Let the good times roll!!