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Harmonic 33 |
| Music For Film, Television and Radio Vol. 1 |
| Warp | 2005 | Album |
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Moody and downtempo yet bipolar and exotic. Harmonic 33 are English producers, Dave Brinkworth and Mark Pritchard, two DJ’s with the penchant to entice you into a world so otherworldly and rare, you’d think you were in a movie all your own. To say that their music is hip-hop based would be an understatement as the tracks are varied, ranging from space-age trip-hop to luxurious string based orchestral works that are somewhat sad yet gorgeous, creating a hypnotic and melancholy world that fits both somewhere in the distant future and the immediate past.
Blending a splash of 60’s futuristic composers like Lew Davies and Dick Hyman and adding a pinch of Ennio Morricone and John Barry, Harmonic 33 creates some sort of soundtrack for a film set in a time of film-noir. A place where hard boiled detectives and deceiving vixens look leery eyed at one another and turn shady corners. It’s a soundtrack that sets a mood in an alternate universe where nothing is as it seems. The songs create an ambiance of moments where you hold your breath and think something will happen, where you feel like you are being followed. There are moments where you feel you are piecing clues together to solve a murder in order to send the big underworld boss up the river and moments where you feel you are being followed by his henchmen. Of course, this only exists in your mind, but for the sake of the story, you are the hero drinking a martini at a seedy lounge, smoking a cigarette as the smoke drifts into the lights above and the camera fades out as you crack a smile knowing you solved the case, sent the bad guy away for a long long time and saved the damsel in distress. For all that’s worth, this is the soundtrack that sets the mood as you take a sip of your bourbon and await the next case. |
| DaVe Lipp |
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