Bedrock [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

John Creamer

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 2002)
• Original Release Date: September 10, 2002
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Bedrock / Hyper
• ASIN: B00006GO91
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #264,669 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
With its promises of a wealth of "unnamed, exclusive, and unreleased tracks", and with tracks like their massive remix of Kosheen's "Hide U" and Creamer & Quick's saucy "Fuck Sonnet" paving the way nicely, this first "proper" Bedrock mix comp from Creamer and K is set to blow up big. Adopting the same no-holds-barred vibe that the pair are known to push on dance floors the world over, this is pure aural stimulation. Disc 1 starts with Peace Division's "The Voice" before moving into Sholan's deep, textured "Can You Feel," and then heading into more pumping territory with Fafa Manteca's cruising "SOS EP," Milo's dark and juicy "Jungle of Mirror," and Dan K's unhinged "Grace." Disc 2 opens in impressive tribal style with 4 Toaster's "Real World Pt. 2" and keeps up the momentum with the heavy unreleased dub of Against the Grain's "Seven," G Pal's "Ocean of Blue," BlH3's "Marscarter" Mousse T's dub of Kim English's "Supernatural" and Danny Tenaglia's "Hambone Wow" served up as a final, thrilling course. If it's a super-duper double dose of ultraheavy tribal twisters you're seeking, this may do the trick. --Paul Sullivan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bedrock shows dark, tribal and funky house at its best !, November 19, 2002

By	Jorge T. Saldivar (Dallas, Tx) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bedrock's newest "mixed and compiled" album makes a difference having to do with progressive house/trance music; this time pics John Creamer and Stephane K for their good taste and style for house. If you have heard their past works like most of their remixes you can see why are they masters on moving entire dancefloors and pleasing crowds with ther heavy and deep progressive basslines giving them a more intense touch with tribal percussions and as it goes keeping you on their world with dark and heavy voices coming from who knows from.

On disk 1 they make a great and original intro on my opinion, on difference to many deep house mixes most of them start with a good dark soundscape or melody, this time they start with an extremely cool-addictive bassline not to dark, not to tribal, but perfectly techy and funky, then changes to deep techy house with nice vocals and so on trip you till the end; ill give this cd 4 stars

Now, on disk 2, men we are talking of other stuff!, these is high class like danny t's good-house-stuff. For at least the first 20 min of the second disk this boys trip you on a deep and dark world followed by amazingly good heavy basslines and frightening soundscapes as well as evil voiced women talking simultanously, then after a while they introduced you good funky pumping house making you wish to be on a dancefloor dancing like crazy, and at last part of the cd i loved how the show off taking totally to africa with nice percussions and intense progressive heavy basslines that would bounce your whole house.
I'll rate this second cd with 4.5 stars.

My advice for listening this whole album is to play it loud with no one home and never stop listening from the first track till last

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overall mix that leaves you wanting something more..., October 31, 2002

By	Anand Subramaniam (Chennai, INDIA) - See all my reviews

Digweed's Bedrock label got 3 releases absolutely spot-on perfect with Digweed's, Van M's and Fortier's mixes for the label. This, along with John Creamer & Stephane K's reputations as producers and remixers extraordinaire placed a lot of high expectations on their outing with Bedrock. Are these expectations met? For the most part, yes. The sound is typically their own, with unearthly vocals dancing around dark, deep basslines. As a standalone mix, this album cuts the mustard quite easily.

But we don't want it to simply cut the mustard, do we? After all, as mentioned before, this is a Bedrock mix. Unfortunately, this album suffers in comparison with Van M's or Fortiers outings in 2 distinct respects. Firstly, you come to expect a certain amount of vocals in a Creamer/K work. You even allow for a higher-than-normal amount. But Disc 1 here suffers a little bit from an over-indulgence in them (Disc 1, Track 2 - "Can you feel, can you feel, can you feel, can you feel, what I'm going through?" - overkill, one feels). Secondly, the kind of magically consistent transitions of mood that characterized previous Bedrock mixes is notable in its absence. As Creamer put it, this album may be "a collection of remixes", but in trying to infuse something different into the individual tracks, Creamer/K may have sacrificed sheer purity of mood.

Disc 1 kicks off with a belter, moves into vocal territory and stays firmly put. There are a few redeemers in the pack, like the hilariously funny-yet-deep...that don't let the vocal override the sound. Overall, not bad, but could have benefited from a little more vocal editing.

Disc 2 is refreshingly different. Starts dark, goes darker with "Seven", and delves into some really dirty, wicked grooves all through. The vocals are still there - but this disc manages to keep the vocals where they belong in the overall context of the sonic journey that it is. Beautifully done.

On the whole, this album isn't a bad buy at all. Just don't expect genius from it, that's all. Creamer/K show in Disc 2 exactly what they are capable of. Maybe soon they'll come up with an offering that hits the nail sqarely on the head. Until then, this'll do...

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Computer mixed or not...., May 11, 2003

By	Barry L. Novak (Appleton, WI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This mix isn't anything to get excited about. It showcases one track in my opinion and that track is F--K Sonnet. The rest of the tracks are bland and lack character. I notice a lot of users commenting on the fact that it is computer mixed versus live on turntables. Computer mixing is a skill in itself as well, the capabilities of turntables these days makes them almost like using a computer. DJs have the ability to look at a waveform using tables just as easily as on a computer these days, and with Final Scratch most DJ racks are becoming more computerized. So I honestly don't think the equipment used effected this mix, it's just a bit boring and does nothing to grab the listener's attention. Considering the pioneering choice of equipment, this mix could have tried to be a lot more adventurous. As it stands this is one to skip. Like someone mentioned before, I will be awaiting a Steve Lawler Bedrock compilation.