Bundle of Joy

Land of the Loops

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 22, 1997)
• Original Release Date: July 29, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Up.
• ASIN: B000003L1F
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #101,434 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Alan Sutherland, a.k.a. Land of the Loops, is part of a new breed of sampling geeks. He's not the most interesting, the most groundbreaking or even the best looking. On Bundle of Joy, he's more like a kid on an electric playground, unpretentiously laying down happy dance groves, bizarre ambient drones and bits of humor. The results are catchy and trippy with a little something for the goofball in all of us. If you can listen to tracks like "Multi-Family Garage Sale" and "I Confess" without cracking a smile and losing that cynical little composure you've groomed so well, your inner child is seriously ill ... and that's just too bad. --Bill Snyder

Product Description
Re-issue of the temporarily out-of-print classic, which has gained a cult following.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm not sure why..., April 19, 2003

By	Lee Rentless (Pugetropolis) - See all my reviews

but I can't go without listening to this for more than a month since I first heard it. A friend of mine got two slightly different copies of this in a bulk purchase from an excellent independent music store liquidating it's largely scorched inventory after a pretty devastating fire (only the good die young). In an act of uncharacteristic charity, I ended up with a slightly charred demo copy. I've treasured it ever since.

Having dispensed with the maudlin discovery story, beep-boop ditties like Day Late & A Dollar Short, I Dream Of Ghosts, Cruisin For Sentient Beings, and Help For Your Aching Back move right along with haunting hooks, catchy beats, and ghostly atmospherics. Suitable for rainy downtown nights, many of which I'm sure the creator spent in a garage-turned-evil-electronic-laboratory, programming this eccentric classic.

A one of a kind. After the third or fourth listen, you will crave it's damp comfort. I am held in a puzzled sense of wonder.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Noisy Fun, February 18, 2000

By	Scott Wejmar (Turlock, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The best way I can describe this album is that it is a hodgepodge of strange and beautiful noises. The creator, Alan Sutherland, has woven obscure samples and original vocals over great loopy beats. The record opens up with a plunky guitar and a baby making noises. It quickly escalates into a great echoing beat and a woman's voice spelling out the artist name. The track, "Multi-Family Garage Sale" is catchy and recognizable from a Miller commercial a few years back. The record continues in haphazard fashion, interweaving original, childlike vocals and catchy beats. Its almost like Sutherland wrote created this record as the perfect music companion for those into "mind expansion." This has been the best find of the last few years. A beautiful, ambient trip that will have your head swimming.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bizzare Loopiness, January 13, 1999

By A Customer

Land of the Loops creates a similar type of atmosphere as Beck, though not exactly the same. The dark humor is at the same time light hearted and amusing -- a difficult balancing act between disturbing and cute. The rhythms are infectious, and the songs are well-constructed. It certainly grows on you after a few plays. Overall, it's worth buying if you're into trippy-alternative-ambient-dub-electronic-loop music.