Back to Mine

创立于1983年的DMC公司是英国第一间倡导DJ文化的唱片公司，过去20多年来对俱乐部文化一直起着举足轻重的作用，而该公司的系列唱片Back To Mine多少给人一种出自名门的感觉。Back To Mine的每一辑都会交由不同的音乐人去打理，音乐人会负责选曲和混音成沙发音乐，而选曲的原则是音乐人平日卧室里常听的私房音乐，单这一点已经能吊起乐迷的胃口，毕竟大家都想知道这些音乐人闲时是会听些什么。 Ultra Records的Back to Mine系列是展现一个电子乐队音乐品味的绝佳机会，其概念很简单：艺术家被赋予最大的‘编辑’自由，根据其品味选歌、编排、混音、制作出一张舞曲chill-out风格的专辑。 The Back to Mine series has already provided some memorable compilations from a diverse collection of dance luminaries, including Morcheeba, MJ Cole, Groove Armada, and Talvin Singh. Now, famous brothers-in-rhythm Paul and Phil Hartnoll, a.k.a. Orbital, offer up a selection of tunes that lie close to their hearts and get their heads bopping. Their effort is indulgently deep and impressively broad, and it's certainly one of the series' most eclectic offerings yet. Starting with John Barry and His Orchestra's "The Knack," we are taken through a weird and wonderful selection of tastes and styles, leaping from soundtrack to ska, rave to reggae, industrial to psychedelic, punk to pop. The intensely wide range of sounds means that the CD doesn't flow quite as mellifluously as it might, but with songs by Lee Scratch Perry ("Justice to the People"), the Tornadoes ("Love and Fury"), PJ Harvey ("Kamikaze"), the Selecter ("Celebrate the Bullet"), Jethro Tull ("Living in the Past"), and Plaid ("New Bass Hippo"), it's still an enjoyable, sprawling, and educational album that manages to pull together a disparate but relevant bunch of pre, post, and present dance tunes. --Paul Sullivan