Tyrant 2: No Shoes / No Cake

Tyrant | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Fabric
• ASIN: B000063CL4
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,414 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Falling Down

2. Raasbucket

3. Crazed Cello

4. Echo Jazz

5. Ebergy (Bass Fresh Mix)

6. Lost & Found

7. Kb's Groove

8. Rock

9. Ashley's War (Dj D Mix)

10. Multiple Mirrors

11. Beat Dis

12. Things Fall Apart

13. Chick N Stew

14. Resistance

15. Hot

16. Love Variations Pt.1 (Charlie Dark Reconstruction)

17. And L

18. Pfhey

19. Stucco Homes

20. So Special

See all 32 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Welcome to the world of echo. Welcome to the world of Tyrant. What is Tyrant? Tyrant is Craig Richards (visual artist, player of records) and Lee Burridge (dapper don, disc jockey). It's a soundsystem that doesn't actually own a sound system. It's a night that moves where the mood takes it. It's whatever you want it to be. What's the plan? Well, what usually happens with affairs like this is each DJ gets a CD each, but Burridge and Richards - being the awkward bastards they are - eschew all of that in favour of combining heads for both CDs. The resultant signature sound, which sounds like neither of them yet somehow sounds like both, is as good a manifesto as any Situationist could muster. Flitting idly and nimbly between house and breaks, deep and dub, cool-out and peak-hour, Tyrant take us where - if James T. Kirk will forgive us - no man has gone before. This is house, Jim, but not as we know it.Although their heart is in house, Tyrant's music is as much influenced by dub as it is Chicago and is nearer to King Tubby than King Unique. It¹s got that wobble of uncertainty that makes you wonder whether you've taken drugs. (In fact you haven't. The music's supposed to sound that way.) Do you want to know the difference between those DJs who feel it and those wouldn't know what it was even if it came round to their house and ran off with their girlfriend? It's to do with basslines. Listen to the myriad of crap house records and it's like sitting on a particularly bad fairground ride. They shouldn't sit on the beat, but ride and slide off it. It's what gives movement and funk to music and it's what makes girls wiggle their hips. It's sexy. The tracks you're listening to here are so full of it, we've had to use two CDs to fit it all on. There's "it"-ness for you. We're not going to fill you with dreary biographical details, because you probably already know that Craig plays weekly at Fabric in London and Lee plays all over the place (though he cut his chops in Hong Kong) as befits a DJ of his calibre. Together they are Tyrant, the soundsystem that doesn't own a sound system. Tyrant the sound system without much hair. Welcome to their world. --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smooth with no Shoes, June 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tyrant 2: No Shoes / No Cake (Audio CD)

While I don't pretend to understand the title, this second mix CD from the tyrant boys is the best thing i've heard all year. Craig Richards and Lee Burridge are doing well enough for themselves in the UK, and I'm glad they've found the time to put together another Tyrant CD.
Even better yet, it's a double CD. Twice the lovin'. Grooving house and breakbeats, with a lean towards the progressive without stepping through that door. While the selection of tracks is great, the mixing is mint. Smooth as Smooth can be.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great compilation, June 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tyrant 2: No Shoes / No Cake (Audio CD)

I've been a fan of most of these DJ's (Lee is the bomb) for quite some time now. This CD doesn't disappoint...its still worth the wait if you don't live by a cool enough record shop that carries the CD. Some of these mixes I have not even heard before and I consider myself a elctronic music elitist. I really like it a lot...buy this. Its the real deal.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just to answer your question..., April 14, 2004

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Jim Galligan (Denver, Co United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tyrant 2: No Shoes / No Cake (Audio CD)

Lee and Craig did a rare thing and teamed up on both disks. Unlike the unsaul arangement of one mixing the first disk, and the other doing the chore on the second, they mixed each disk together working on track selection and final mixing/mastering.