Solutions for Small a Planet

Haujobb | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 1996)
• Original Release Date: November 19, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B000005OPE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,082 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best electronic albums of the 1990s, July 12, 2002

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B. Snavely (San Diego, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Solutions for Small a Planet (Audio CD)

It's sad that this group is pigeonholed into the "electro/industrial" genre by the media, most critics, and even fans. If you enjoy electronic music, or even modern music in general, once you give this album a few spins there is no going back. Haujobb began their career in the early ninties, sounding more like a Skinny Puppy or FLA knockoff, but they quickly got off that track and have been wonderfully innovative ever since. Gradually, this band IS being discovered; I recently attended their show with futurepop darlings VNV Nation in Los Angeles and the venue was packed with a couple thousand people. Haujobb played their set before the headliner VNV Nation, and got a better crowd response, which is almost unheard of!

Musically, this album is hard to pin down. It slightly reminds me of Photek, Portishead, Matthew Herbert, Front Line Assembly, and maybe soundtrack stuff like you'd hear in Alien movies. Like Portishead, this album takes grip of time and has its way with it. It's dark and futuristic like the best FLA albums, and much of it is tight, spacey drum'n'bass. But in the end these comparisons fail, because Solutions For a Small Planet is just so unique.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accellerationism, January 12, 2000

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"suchman" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Solutions for Small a Planet (Audio CD)

This album is for the futurists of futurists (AKA Accellerationists)... as digital and analogue as music can get, and still retains that human feel with pianos, saxophones, offbeat drum'n'bass, very "brave new world" lyrics. Every song seems to be a ridulously true statement about humans relationship with technology... phrases like "virtual masturbation", "no stationary living spaces, no static structures, mobility junkies", "jacked on the wire to a thousand billion degrees." Reminds me very much of a soundtrack to 5th Element or something. haujobb create magical music

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good listened to in parts or whole, March 28, 2006

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M. Mierzwa (Davis, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Solutions for Small a Planet (Audio CD)

About the Band:
Considered an industrial music giant, Germany's Daniel Myer and Dejan Samardzic typically puts out music that at times can be described as traditional electronic body music to much more experimental dark ambient techno. In addition to making use of both vocals and electronic created music, the prolific band is often considered a significant influence on many other industrial and electronic bands.

About the Album:
The hour and ten minute long album is considered by many Haujobb fans to be one of Myer's and Samardzic's best. Released in 1996, the album came at the mid-point of their long music careers, and shows the maturity and quality one would expect from electronic music veterans. A number of the tracks are completely instrumental, with others having minimal vocals or voice-overs including for small portions of the tracks. While I like the instrumental pieces, I tended to prefer the tracks where Myer's cool vocals were much more prominent.

Some tracks I recommend:
- Nature's Interface
- Journey Ahead
- Clockwise
- Depths
- Sub Unit One

This is one of my favorite Haujobb albums, but I tend to prefer to listen to it on quiet evenings at home alone. The majority of the album is rather subtle in its approach, having a more atmospheric feel. A number of the tracks, most notably Journey Ahead, on this album tend to please patrons of industrial club dancefloors. The Cage Complex is also notable because it includes a saxophone.

Sideprojects:
Architect, Cleaner, Clear Vision, Cleen, HMB, & Newt

Similar Artists:
Ah Cama-Sotz, Black Lung, C/A/T, Empusae, Forma Tadre, Frontline Assembly, Halo_Gen, Gridlock, Mlada Fronta, Sleepwalk, This Morn' Omina