Ninetynine

Haujobb

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 4, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 27, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B00000IN5C
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,451 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Grounds

2. Overflow

3. Doubleyou

4. Cutedge

5. Ninetynine

6. Less

7. Pulsar

8. Creator

9. X-Flow

10. Untitled

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

After 1996's drum & bass-inflected Solutions for a Small Planet and Daniel Myer's ambient-electronica side projects Cleen and Newt, it was plain to see in which direction Haujobb were moving. Listening to Ninetynine might jar fans of the band's older, industrial-dance material, but even if you resent the change, you can't help admiring Haujobb's skill in pulling it off. Minimalist, atmospheric electro is the underlying aesthetic here, but Myer and partner Dejan Samardzic have created a varied and engaging disc with the power to both please and perplex. Guest vocalist Vanessa Briggs brings a moody trip-hop feel to "Overflow," "Less," and "X-Flow"; "Cutedge" marries a stop-start groove to stringlike synths and burbly static; and "Ninetynine" explodes halfway through with a jazzy, percussive, Photek-like force. There's even a 13-minute-long "hidden" track of disjointed samples and drum patterns, as though Haujobb were letting you behind the curtain and into their strange museum of sound. A triumph in '99 or any other year. --Steve Landau

Product Description

Once Again Daniel Mayer and Dejan Samardzic Attemp to Revolutionizethe World of Electronic Music.fascinating Rhythms,embeded Into Warm Soundscapes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not your father's Haujobb, April 20, 2000

By	Eric Oehler (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you were expecting another "Solutions", this isn't it.

If you wanted a replay of "Freeze Frame Reality" or "Homes And Gardens", this isn't it.

If you're looking for aggressive EBM, this isn't it either.

But if you want some truly beautiful minimal electronic music, this is a great palce to start.

Processed washes of sound, sparse rhythms, heavily modulated vocals and just general ambiences dominate this album. Songs and sounds float in and out of the stereo field. It's beautiful headphone chill-out music.

It's not especially catchy, though. Its sparseness makes for some wonderful sound and brilliant production, but the tracks do often lack hooks or melodic structures. Not ncessarily a bad thing, but if you were looking for something as catchy as "Journey Ahead", you're going to be surprised.

Speaking of surprises, the additional of female vocalist Vanessa Briggs adds an even more ethereal touch to the album, and highlights some of the most memorable tracks.

Cold, Spacy, brilliant. Just don't try to dance to it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The first glimpse of 21st century music, November 22, 1999

By	"suchman" (Cuyahoga Falls, OH United States) - See all my reviews

Daniel and Dejan have done it again... they have managed to craft together a cold vision of the future and blend it with a particularly human touch. haujobb still creates that stark, tense atmosphere that make you just beg for more like all of their older releases. The only difference is that haujobb have taken ANOTHER new direction with situationally placed sounds.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Minimalist ambient., December 3, 1999

By A Customer

This album shows, probably more dramatically than any other I've heard, that the spaces _between_ sounds can be as important as the sounds themselves. If "Solutions For A Small Planet" contained a humming futuristic cityscape inside its sounds, then the sounds of Ninetynine define an entire, barren, coldly beautiful universe. As with most ambient, either it clicks for you or it doesn't, and this definitely works for me.