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...Rizzo has worked with the likes of Coldplay, k.d. lang, Alanis Morissette and Paul Oakenfold, and brings to the project all the consummate, knob-twiddling expertise that you would expect of a two-time Grammy nominee. Huun Huur Tu's sparse, ethereal songs - where simple lutes like the doshpuluur and two-stringed fiddles like the igil form the typical accompaniment - are fleshed out with drum loops, cello, keyboard and guitar, but they are not overwhelmed. In haunting paeans like "Mother Taiga" or "Ancestors Call" the romance of the Tuvan steppe is potently concentrated...
...vital part of those means is the album’s flawless production, courtesy of the DFA. Quite simply, the increasingly popular NYC duo give Echoes what Paul Oakenfold gave the Happy Mondays on Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches and what the Dust Brothers gave the Beastie Boys on Paul’s Boutique. The DFA’s production brings the Rapture’s early sound, evocative of Joy Division and the Cure, to its logical fulfillment—bridging the band’s penchant for the 80s with the means and trends of 21st century rock...
...It’s funny that in Detroit, trance is bigger than techno and in Chicago, trance is bigger than house,” Paul Oakenfold notes. Yeah, it’s a total mystery. At the end of our 30 minutes, he signals that it’s time to move on, and before I know it, he’s already whipped out his cell phone, back to work. Business as usual...
...Paul Oakenfold just wants to make people dance. Maybe, I think to myself, that’s why he can’t be bothered to discuss his work at any length. He’s doing his job, so isn’t that enough? “The more people globally who get into dance music, the better it is for everyone. If they’re having a good time, then great; it’s all about the people,” he says benevolently. Oakenfold also enjoys excursions into Hollywood (besides Swordfish, he?...
...maybe that’s the point—Oakenfold wants to look above mere dancing. “Let’s be creative and original rather than jaded and boring,” he declares, sans irony once again. And so we have Perry Farrell, Nelly Furtado and a bevy of divas singing about having a good time, holding hands and dancing happily. Yet subsumed in tidal waves of studio effects, their voices ride the uncomfortable line between being reduced to cogs in the machine and struggling to stay afloat. Tricky, whose unearthly growl once spoke volumes, sounds...