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GrooveRider, Mysteries of Funk

Audio CD

Disk ID: 674148

Disk length: 1h 8m 49s (11 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1998

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Cybermatic Jazz 1:58
2. Rainbows of Colour 4:19
3. On the Double 4:04
4. Time Space 7:13
5. Where's Jack the Ripper 8:09
6. Fly With Me 9:13
7. C Funk 7:42
8. Imagination 8:27
9. Rivers of Colour 7:00
10. Imagination 4:57
11. 560 5:41

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Review

Grooverider isn't hailed as the "don of drum & bass" for nothing. It's an honorable title that he has earned and held since the genre's very foundation in the early 1990s. Mysteries of Funk, surprisingly Groove's first full-length, is a sample of jazzier and more tech-step-oriented strains of drum & bass. Taking slightly forced, Björk-esque vocal arrangements and beautiful guitar licks and arranging them around soft, café-style breakbeats, "Rainbow of Color" emphasizes the jazz-funk solution to Groove's great mystery. "On the Double" takes the fusion of sound even more literally and exercises a more soundtrackish approach with a film chase-scene sound. The mighty Grooverider later flees the café scene with a handful of strictly main-floor tracks like "Where's Jack the Ripper?" and "560." The former takes crunchy bass quacks and pounds against them with a metallic snare drum; the latter takes quirky sub-bass pulses that are quickly recycled into heavy reverb while a simple conga rhythm accents each beat. Groovy. --Daniel ShumateLimited Edition Double CD.

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