Studio Voodoo

Studio Voodoo | Format: DVD Audio

Product Details

• DVD Audio (March 27, 2001)
• Please Note: This is a DVD-Audio disc which is playable on most DVD players as well as all DVD-Audio players. Click here for additional information regarding compatibility.
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Digital Sound
• ASIN: B00004YR52
• Also Available in: DVD Audio
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,748 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. This Beat Is Voodoo

2. Fire

3. Lamentatio

4. Straight From The Heart

5. Trancedance

6. Integration

7. Imagenes de Espa-a

8. Rain

9. Epilogue: Songs of Gnos

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars delicious insanity., April 12, 2001

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Todd Spinney "TopSpin" (Leominster, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Studio Voodoo (DVD Audio)

Wow, these boys can mix! This 'DTS Experience' is mind numbing in its complexity. It is jaw dropping mixed specifically for the 5.1 format. It's very difficult to describe it. There is drums a-plenty, tribal rhythms, Spanish guitars, opera divas improvising over trance-techo beats, quirky (and at times annoying) spoken dialogue, synths synths and more synths panning and shooting all over the room. Is is perfect? No, buts it's darn close. I found the yoga instruction dialogue throughout Trance Dance to be irritating. I could also do without the cheesy new-wave three-party converstation that starts off the otherwise mind-blowing Integraton.

Bottom line: If you have a DTS-capable sound system (especially if you have 6.1!) this is the 'wow' disc to get. I can't wait for their next release!

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Effective Surround, Vapid Music, January 22, 2002

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"surroundguy" (Peripatetic) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Studio Voodoo (DVD Audio)

This DVD-Audio, one of the few created specifically for surround, is a slickly produced recording that uses surround quite effectively. In general the music superficially combines a variety of musical styles (Swahili vocals, Balinese "ketchak" (monkey-chant), chants, operatic vocals, flamenco guitar, etc.) over a generic "tribal" electro beat that overall becomes a vapid, unsatisfying mish-mash. It feels like dts, in an effort to promote DVD-Audio and surround, hired some musicians to whip up surround music that would have a broad, bland appeal. There is 1 slide per piece (each crassly headed by the self-promotional "dts music experience"). The mix is actually 6.1 if you are setup for that. There is also an "art" gallery and a binaural headphone mix offered. People who think this is "avant-garde" must only know mainstream rock. And while the use of surround is effective, it's not as innovative as the very adventurous Immersion release, and not as musically coherent as the Subotnick release (to mention 2 other DVD-Audios that are true surround sound).

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Can't stand it as a whole, August 14, 2001

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John Cooley "jcinmobile" (Mobile, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Studio Voodoo (DVD Audio)

First of all, the recording and mixing engineers did a great job, but ....., there are only moments of repeatably listenable moments of music. The remainder seems more experimental noise of the nervous banging, talking, generally irritating type. I tried several times to listen this as openly as possible, and in the end just feel cheated. Not just out of my money, but out of my time. By the way I came across this DVDA because Amazon shows that people who bought Blue Man Group (BMG) also bought Studio Voodo. They are not even close to the same. BMG is great, this is a bad investment.