Pink Floyd fans will surely be the most obvious audience for this, but they will probably be the hardest to sell on it, too. Take a lot of Pink Floyd music and a whole host of fans of the band and put it all together to create an electronica disc. That’s what you’ve got here. While Floyd sounds pervade the album, there is only a little music here that would really make you think it could fit onto a Pink Floyd set. That said, this is entertaining and quite tasty no matter how you slice or portray it. Floyd fans with a heart of adventure should pick this up. Fans of electronica will find an even simpler learning curve.
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Track by Track Review
Heartbeat, Pigmeat (UFO Technicolour Dream) Mix
A blipping sound like some kind of heart monitor opens it. Then some percussion joins. A flute goes over the top. Some organ is heard. Spoken soundbites are added. This is a dense and weird bit of spacey psychedelia that keeps shifting and changes with a lot of spoken words at its heart.
Further down the road it works to electronic, techno meets hip hop. There is a lot of scratching along with some bits of hip hop vocals. It moves to more of a beat poetry version of the earlier section after that.