Solutions for a Small Planet

Haujobb

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 1996)
• Original Release Date: November 19, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B000005OPE
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #277,594 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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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

By	B. Snavely (San Diego, CA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

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

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 beyond all boundaries, March 7, 2001

By	doktor242 "doktor242" (NYC, NY USA) - See all my reviews

this was the disc which showed the world that haujobb is unstoppable. it's nearly 4 years old, and it *STILL* sounds futuristic. Tracks like Distance, AntiMatter and Transfer seem to transcend genre, dark and smootth, while Rising Sun and Cleaned Vision's frenetic beats are hard dancefloor fodder. There's no reason to NOT buy this cd.