Wide Angle

Hybrid, Hybrid | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kinetic Records
• ASIN: B00004XSML
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,868 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #42 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > Techno-House

Track Listings

1. Opening Credits

2. If I Survive

3. I Know

4. Beachcoma

5. Dreaming Your Dreams

6. Snyper

7. Theme from Wide Angle

8. Sinequanon

9. Kill City [Edit]

10. Altitude [Edit]

11. Finished Symphony

12. Altitude [Red Square Reprise]

13. Kid 2000 [Edit][*]

Editorial Reviews

UK version of 1999 release from electronica group comparedto Chemical Brothers and Underworld. This special editionCd includes a 9 track bonus disc featuring Chrissie Hynde on'Kid 2000'. 19 tracks total. 2000 release Slimline doublejewel case. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Breakbeat/Trance.... a TRUE HYBRID, June 10, 2000

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Nick Wax (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wide Angle (+5 Track Bonus CD) (Audio CD)

One the first disc of this two disc set, you are taken on an incredible ride... the first track titled "Opening Credits" is a lush orchestration performed by an 80 piece Russian Orchestra (whose talents are showcased throughout the album)which segues into the pulsepounding twister "If I Survive", which features the vocals dramatics of Julee Cruise (who is also featured on 3 other tracks). One of my favorites is definetly track 8 "Sine Qua Non", features FRENCH RAP ARTIST Soon MC. Yes I said FRENCH RAP, it's a fairly down tempo groove that relaxes with it's melodies and soothing vocals. The Highlight TRANCE ANTHEMS are track 7 "Theme from Wide Angle", and Track 9 "High Life". Also featured on disc one is the gorgeous sonic embodiement of energized peace, titled "Finished Symphony". If you can purchase the single for this song GO ahead, and DO it. The Echoplex mix is well worth your money. The second disc is a 5 track live CD witch features a couple non album tracks, including Kill City, and Altitude). For this price, YOU MUST BUY THIS CD RIGHT THIS MINUTE. Enjoy. 12 tracks on disc one include: 1. Opening Credits, 2. If I Survive 3. I Know, 4. Beachcoma, 5. Dreaming Your Dreams, 6. Snyper, 7. Theme from Wide Angle, 8. Sine Qua Non, 9. High Life, 10. Fatal Beating, 11. Finished Symphony, 12. Altitude (Red Square Reprise)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Album that really pushes the edge of the envelope of trance, September 30, 2000

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"richm25" (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wide Angle (+5 Track Bonus CD) (Audio CD)

And about time too! Just when we thought the teabag had been left too long in the trance teapot and was beginning to stew, along comes a group that actually tries to push the genre. Hybrid, a group of lads (and a lady) harking from Swansea, (in Wales - you know Wales? That place west of Hereford, England?), come along with a truly classic album.

Wide Angle is an excellent mix of breakbeat and trance that really tries to do something with the songs. Not one song on this album sounds as if it depends on one trance line hook or one sample - all the songs are pieces of music in their own right.

One of my favourites has to be Finished Symphony, where the physical presence or an orchestra is pitted against an involved breakbeat to create a song that will give you that little tingling feeling towards the back of the head right through until the climax. It doesn't feel contrived, or awkward - the orchestra fits in perfectly with the synth stabs and the percussion. And it actually sounds like a piece of music!

Another is the Theme From Wide Angle, which is a superlative piece of trance engineering that just keeps the tension going all the way through. And without using the de facto trance kit sounds too - the beat is pounding and energetic - you literally have to get up and do something when this song is on. This is excellent dancefloor trance - just turn it up until you can't hear next door banging on the wall.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Trance CD I have ever heard., October 18, 2000

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D.M.K "smart reader" (Las Vegas, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wide Angle (+5 Track Bonus CD) (Audio CD)

OF the 200 Trance CDs I own...this is the best CD I have ever heard..this is the best trance band I have ever heard..there is nothing else to say.