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 Ninja Tune certainly know how to pick the gems. And this time, there's just one - with an opportunity to preview all the tracks online. Dial M For Monkey sees a welcome return for the chillout master, Bonobo, with a masterful follow up to Animal Magic. It's a flawless blend of sampled breakbeats & jazzy live instrumentation that puts him in a class of his own. Listen to full length streams of all tracks in either real audio or windows media and a video stream right here on ivibes!
Simon Green aka Bonobo is back with nine perfectly formed tracks on a perfectly formed album. No huge, bloated, over-conceptualised rottage for the monkey man. He gets in, does what he has to do, gets out. 'Noctuary', with it's creepy stoned-Hammer feel through the headnod sitar-funk 'Flutter', on into the Rhodes-meets-Gamelan of 'D Song', the first third of the record sets out the tone for what is to follow - all beautifully melodic and perfectly assembled but with enough of a creeping undertow to stop the music becoming empty or boring.. 'Change
Down' is double bass folk and cut-up drums, 'Wayward Bob' is a devilish waltz, while 'Pick Up' is a straight funk 'n' flute throw down. 'Something For Windy' sounds like a dub of a postman on his rounds, 'Nothing Owed' is epic pastoralia, while 'Light Pattern' rounds things off with what sounds like the theme to the best TV programme never made.
With all instruments played, sampled and sequenced by Green’s own fair hand, there is a consistency here, both within the tunes and across the record that crate diggers can only dream of. There is real development, the building of moods and feelings, a genuine attempt to make great music which is incidentally computer music. He may make a monkey of himself, but he’s no musical mug…
Here you can listen to full streams of all tracks in windows media player or real audio player:
Noctuary
Real Audio
Windows Media
Flutter
Real Audio
Windows Media
D Song
Real Audio
Windows Media
Change Down
Real Audio
Windows Media
Wayward Bob
Real Audio
Windows Media
Pick Up
Real Audio
Windows Media
FREE MP3 Download
Something For Windy
Real Audio
Windows Media
Nothing Owed
Real Audio
Windows Media
Light Pattern
Real Audio
Windows Media
Pick Up VIDEO Stream!
Real Player
Windows Media Player
This article is in conjunction with ninjatune, http://www.ninjatune.net/
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