| Kettel / Through Friendly Waters |
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| Album: | Through Friendly Waters | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Kettel | Added: | 06/2005 | |
| Label: | Sending Orbs | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-07-10 | Pull Date: | 2005-09-11 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica, Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | 11 Sep | 4 Sep | 28 Aug | 21 Aug | 14 Aug | 7 Aug | 31 Jul | 24 Jul |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 27, 2008: | Lost and Found Through Friendly Waters | 4. | Sep 01, 2005: | Trip Over Zero Pinch of Peer | |
| 2. | Sep 08, 2005: | Trip Over Zero Shinusob | 5. | Aug 25, 2005: | Trip Over Zero Through Friendly Waters | |
| 3. | Sep 04, 2005: | Coronary Heart Disease Every Kiss You Gave | 6. | Aug 22, 2005: | Go For Dover Through Friendly Waters |
| Album Review |
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| Captain Dee Reviewed 2005-07-11 | ||
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Kettel, from the Netherlands, is a renowned name in electronica. This is the premiere release on a new label, Sending Orbs (sent directly to us from Europe!). This album finds him doing very melody-centered glitch-hop/IDM, through Kettel has also done instrumental hip-hop and ambient (you can see strands of that in this album). Because of the strong and simple digital melodies, the whole thing strikes me as extremely videogame-ish. Not in a retro 8-bit NES way, but more modern. Think Nobuo Uemstasu (Final Fantasy composer) or Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger composer). Lot’s of samples, interesting textures, and quirks make this a well-crafted work of electronica. Imagine Mum and Marumari, mixed together with a Playstation. Recommended! Also, keep an eye out for this promising label... Favorite Tracks: 2, 5, 6, 9 - Captain Dee, June 2005 Note: The album is mixed together, but tracks stand alone pretty well *1. Happy chimes, simple melody, sound effects. Cute. (2:28) **2. Hollow-ish keyboard, harp, and chime melodies intertwine over windy ambience. Magical vibe, like walking through a forest. Very Square-Enix. (4:16) 3. Messy IDM beat, bubbling electronics, wistful melody. (6:21) *4. Deep lush ambience, slow IDM beat, field recording of a crowd plays quietly in the back. Pretty! (3:33) ***5. Tight click-clack beat, quiet bird noises, warm piano melodies. Later, touches of violin. Super addictive, so gorgeous! (4:18) **6. Dancey IDM beat, cheery melody, cool rewind-ish ambient washes in the background. Lovely, but also fun. (6:15) 7. Sped-up hip-hop-ish beat. Light-hearted piano and digital melodies. Some muddled, depressing spoken samples make for a weird juxtaposition. (4:47) *8. Bouncey beat, rhythmic clicks and snaps everywhere. Warm ethereal ambience, quiet echo-y chants, comforting electronic melody. (8:18) **9. Bizarre creature-ish noises, soundtrack-ish ambience and garbled violin, slow repeated piano melody. 3:30 in, a hard-hitting glitchy hip-hop beat kicks in. Wow! Beautiful, mystical stuff. (8:40) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Bodpa | 5. | Through Friendly Waters | |||
| 2. | Pinch of Peer | 6. | Every Kiss You Gave | |||
| 3. | Shinusob | 7. | Purple Jacket Trot | |||
| 4. | I Was Fine | 8. | Mwoeb | |||
| 9. | Whom | |||||