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Artist: VA
Album: Afterhours 2
Label: Global Underground [Boxed]
Catalog#: GUAF002CD
Format: 2xCD, Mixed
Country: UK
Released: Feb 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Progressive House, Downtempo, Minimal, Experimental, Ambient
Rip by: MPX
Bitrate: CBR 192 kbit
Size: 92Mb+92Mb
Continuing from where the previous ended, Global Underground presents the second installment of its alternative mood music. Releasing the first volume as a tease in limited numbers, GU’s interpretation of the Afterhours certainly showed that the label and its compilers were diverse in their appreciation of the weird and the wonderful.
Afterhours 2 provides a double CD compiled as an ideal selection of sounds aimed at that post clubbing experience. Mellow, abstract, atmospheric, dark beats that can put your mind at ease after a night on the town. Featuring UNKLE, Slam, Boards Of Canada, Primal Scream and a host of artists from the GU Music label, the album will include an assortment of interesting production work.
It’s a strange feeling, but it’s right. You have to give it to them; though these sounds have been explored by others like Warp before them, the presentation captures the feelings and moods that define the afterhours; somewhere calm, but not chill, dark and twisted with a majestic black rose cementing its alluring nature.
You must wonder, what must go inside the mind of someone who creates sounds like this. This music isn’t made for the mainstream and for most people they may never hear music quite like this. And with the compilers, Trafik pulling no stops to search for gems that seemed to be impossible to find; music that sleeps in the cracks of the world. If people like Trafik and labels like GU didn’t take a chance to explore new terrain, all that would be left are commercial records done “chilled style” for purposes of “now that’s what I call chillout music vol. 100” or use every other downtempo track that’s been used a hundred times prior and repackage it under a different umbrella.
To Trafik and GU, the afterhours more or less is neither a place nor time. It is wherever you want to be at whatever moment you feel. It’s an attitude and an understanding that sometimes you just want to let go. I agree. The afterhours, you really need to experience it for yourself
Tracklisting:
CD1
01. Olvis — The Sea
02. Penumbra – Deep Listening
03. Stef, Pako & Frederick — Magic Shop (Trafik Aftercuts Edit)
04. Slam — Kill The Pain
05. 7 Hurtz — 3 Sisters
06. Sissy — I See You (Dub Mix)
07. Boxsaga — Steppin'
08. Spanna – Phere
09. 7 Hurtz – Pump
10. Psycorps – Collusion
11. Boards Of Canada — Amo Bishop Roden
12. The Aloof ft. Ricardo Nicolia — On A Mission
13. Burnt Friedman — I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
14. K-roxx – Grand
15. Roxy Music — In Every Dream Home A Heartache
16. Tricky – Hollow
17. The Forth – Into The Outside
18. Trafik — Surrender (Green Ice Mix)
19. The Album Leaf — Over The Pond
CD2
01. Unkle — I Need Something Stronger
02. Colder- One Night In Tokyo
03. Cotton Belly – Tempest Dub
04. Primal Scream – Jailbird (Weatherall Dub Chapter 3 Mix)
05. Dub Chemist – Wobbly
06. Rockers Hi Fi — Push Push (Re-rub) (Trafik Aftercuts Edit)
07. Nush — Nush (Trafik Aftercuts Edit)
08. Leonine — Wrong Intentions
09. Murcof — Memoria (Sutekh Trisagiorion Mix)
10. Dominik Eulberg — Der Zug Der Kraniche:Boten Der Veränderung
11. Visage — Fade To Grey (Trafik Aftercuts Edit)
12. Psychonauts — Empty Love
13. Telfon Tel Aviv — My Week Beats Your Year
14. Murcof – Memoria
15. Trafik — Echoes (Petter Slow Dub)
16. Jon Hopkins – Circle
17. Closer Musik — One, Two, Three (Ewan Pearson Mix)
18. Sinner dc – Alice
19. Subside — Home To An Empty House
20. Beanfield — Tides ft. Bajka (Accapella)
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