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Ramda

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damn, this guy has an array of sounds that so easily mix together: jazz, jungle, and then all that indie rock crap.. the cd is so versatile that you can put it on repeat a couple of times and it doesnt get old. even though amazon doesnt have any clips as of now for you to hear these songs, i am gonna recommend some anyhow 2.distant 3.galileo (must be listened to in that order) 7.the lonely lounge piano player's lost in his little world and 12.headphoneland in the school of old.. aight, one more thing to add, adam, the artist has a good little essay inside the cd, and even though it might sound a little pretentious, i think his basic points are meant well that music is an important factor in the human life. ooh your music is soooo good.. BUY IT.

I picked this Cd up first from my local lending library, not really knowing what to expect - the liner notes had fascinated me, as had the references to Steve Reich in one or two of the song titles, so I thought it was either going to be, like the best of Reich's pieces, full of ecstatic melodies and swing, or, like Reich's worst, disjointed and flat. After listening, both. The best tracks, like "Lonely Lounge Piano Player.." and "Galileo" use unconventional rhythms and timbres thrown together almost haphazardly to create lush and dubby electro-acoustic songs. Imagine Tortoise playing with chance procedures, or Reich playing with Do Make Say Think, maybe! The worst are quaint and over worked doodles, but are thankfully rare. Adam Pierce hasn't really been able to recapture this form, which is a great shame.

Mice Parade is a phenominal band. The second I heard their music off of this site I ordered the cd "The True Meaning of Boodleybaye." A masterpiece....Everything I have heard from them I love. This band literally sounds like something out of this world. That sounds corny but listen to it. I've never heard any kind of music that has done this before and this is phenominal. Buy everything you can from this band.

3 1/2

The reliable one man band of Mice Parade is guaranteed to please if you are a beat-oriented percussion hound of open mind. Weaving exotic, although highly circular instrumentation around his intense, intellectual drumming, Adam Pierce provides vibrant counterpoints to so much generic idm pervading so much of the scene. Some of these eccentric compositions do tend to be a little too self-contained for their own good, but the sheer variety in head bobbing dubby undercurrents present throughout the disc makes for another keeper.