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70's day in work today. We've all brought 70's compliations in. Sitting here in the loudest shirt I own looking like a poor mans Noddy Holder.

Kipper tie, yes please two sugars.
 

Classic Album No 2

CHAOS AD / SEPULTURA / 1993

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Chaos A.D. is the fifth studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in late 1993 through Roadrunner Records. This was the record that helped the group transcend their previous death/thrash style, deepening their forays into hardcore punk, industrial and Brazilian-styled percussion. It would later become one of the founding pillars of the groove metal subgenre.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_A.D.#cite_note-1
It won silver and gold certifications throughout Europe and the USA, and was considered their first step into the metal mainstream.


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The band considered a number of producers, including avant garde jazz composer John Zorn and Al Jourgensen of industrial metal pioneers Ministry. They settled with Andy Wallace who had previously mixed Arise. Sepultura wanted isolation, and for that Andy Wallace suggested Rockfield Studios located in South Wales.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_A.D.#cite_note-2
"Kaiowas" was recorded live among the ruins of the medieval castle of Cheptow. It was an entirely acoustic track, with Andrea Kisser and Max Cavellera on the guitars and brother-drummer Igor Cavellera and bassist Paulo Jr. handling the percussion duties. When they recorded "Kaiowas", the quartet never even considered playing the track live, because they thought it would be too difficult to recreate the drumming on stage. They changed their minds after seeing a video of the American band Neurosis: "We saw in that live video that the Neurosis guys put down their guitars and everybody started to play the drums on stage", lead guitarrist Andreas remembers. "We decided to try the same thing. We rehearsed it once and it was wonderful. We haven't stopped playing the song live since."
During Chaos A.D's sessions, Sepultura recorded a number of B-Sides "The Hunt", from New Model Army, "Policia", from Titas, "Inhuman Nature", from the American hardcore punk band Final Conflict and "Crucificados pelo Sistema", from Brazilians Ratos De Porau. Igor was a New Model Army fan and he convinced the other band members to include "The Hunt" on the record. Paulo joked that the money of the LP would go straight to new dentures for Justin Sullivan, the toothless singer of New Model Army.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_A.D.#cite_note-barcinski131-0

Out of the boredom of playing the Arise songs for two years straight and the threat of musically stagnating, Sepultura pushed the envelope on Chaos A.D. The first track, "Refuse/Resist", revealed the band's new musical direction: slower, with more emphasis on groove than speed. The song starts with the heartbeat of Max's then-unborn first son, Zyon, followed by some Afro-Brazilian drumming reminiscent of Salvadore, Bahia reggae group Olodumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_A.D.#cite_note-barcinski131-0. About the track's introductory guitar riff, Max acknowledged that it "could have been created by a death metal band."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_A.D.#cite_note-haagsma1993-6
Diversity was the key to Chaos A.D., revealed Max Cavalera. "Biotech is Godzilla" was "pure hardcore", according to the elder Cavalera. "Nomad", with its characteristically slow riffs, was described Max as the answer by lead guitarist Adreas Kissers to Metallica's "Sad but True". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_A.D.#cite_note-barcinski128-7The album also featured Sepultura's first all-acoustic incursion, "Kaiowas". "It's like a mixture of Led Zepplin, Sonic Youth and Olodum", said Max of that particular song.


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Classic Album #3

Dig Your Own Hole - The Chemical Brothers (1997)

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Dig Your Own Hole is the second album by British Electronica duo The Chemial Brothrs, released in the UK on 7 April 1997. It features Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Beth Orton as guest vocalists.
In 1998, Q Magazine readers voted Dig Your Own Hole the 49th greatest album of all time. In 2000, the same magazine placed it at number 42 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.



From Rolling Stone

The list of ingredients reads like some techno nerd's record collection run amok. But the whole thing roars like the Massed Turntables of the Apocalypse: a high-stepping bass and drop-kick beats that sound like a speed-and-ecstasy spin on Sly and the Family Stone's wicked '69 jam "Sex Machine"; the reverb-and-percussion voodoo of reggae-dub wizard Lee Perry; a death-throe synth that howls like Jimi Hendrix's Strat in feedback purgatory; drum breaks that crack like Public Enemy DJ Terminator X doing a Buddy Rich at the decks; a call to party – "Back with another one of those block-rockin' beats!" – sampled from the 1989 track "Gucci Again," by the original gangsta rapper, Schoolly D. And that's just the opening track on this album. You can dance to it until your limbs turn to tapioca or just sit, listen and have your mind blown inside out. Either way, "Block Rockin' Beats" will fry you alive. And along with the rest of Dig Your Own Hole, the genuinely explosive second LP by the British DJ and remix duo the Chemical Brothers, it burns the whole rock vs. techno argument into a fine, white ash.
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Excellent album McB. Listened to it again the other week and regressed back to being in my early twenties and the substances that came with it.

Track ten's super.

At the moment I'm mostly enjoying some Led Zeppelin.
 

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