{"id":88241,"date":"2012-05-06T08:02:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88241\/choose-noise\/"},"modified":"2012-05-06T08:02:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:02:57","slug":"choose-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88241\/choose-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"I CHOOSE NOISE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hybrid’s first album (Wide Angle) raised the bar for dance music.\u00a0 The Welshmen were not the first producers to combine trance and breakbeats (BT and Way Out West started doing it a few years earlier).\u00a0 However, with the addition of real strings and dark atmospheric effects, Hybrid improved the formula.\u00a0 A year later, the album was re-released – as a double disc set with live material and bonus tracks.\u00a0 Kid 2000 features Chrissie Hynde on vocals.\u00a0 Extensive touring (initially as Moby’s support act) increased awareness of the band.\u00a0 Hybrid remained an ‘underground’ dance act though\u00a0 Hybrid is generally underrated.\u00a0 Mike Truman and Chris Healings have produced some great dance music over the past thirteen years (including over a hundred remixes).<\/font><\/p>\n

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The next two albums flirted with rock music.\u00a0 Musicians such as Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction) and Peter Hook (New Order) added guitars and vocals.\u00a0 Morning Sci-fi and I Choose Noise are both quite dark albums.\u00a0 Following a collection of remixes and the Soundsystem_01 compilation, Hybrid released album number four (Disappear Here).\u00a0 It is a shade lighter – on the whole.\u00a0 The main vocalist and lyricist on the album is Charlotte James.\u00a0 She also contributed guitar, piano and cello parts.\u00a0 It is the sound of Hybrid maturing.\u00a0 However, the earlier material is better.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Interpol released four albums in eight years.\u00a0 The band’s sound has become more refined with each album.\u00a0 Interpol emerged before The Killers burst onto the scene.\u00a0 Some of their influences are the same (eg. Joy Division and eighties indie music in general).\u00a0 There are similarities in their styles of music.\u00a0 The problem with Interpol is: It’s all a bit ‘samey’.\u00a0 Listening to one album each time is sufficient.\u00a0 I find I have to be in the mood for it.\u00a0 It’s not very jolly music.<\/font><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1AcW09Ya68w<\/p>\n

INXS formed in the late seventies – and came to an abrupt end in 1997 when Michael Hutchence was found dead in a hotel in Sydney.\u00a0 The band was most popular between 1984 and 1993.\u00a0 The Greatest Hits was released in 1994.\u00a0 There was just one more album with Michael Hutchence (Elegantly Wasted).\u00a0 A few years ago the band decided to recruit a new lead singer in a televised competition (Rock Star).\u00a0 Once the new vocalist had been chosen, the reformed INXS released an album which was moderately successful.\u00a0 There was far less interest in the last album though.<\/font><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YIsFr8v18Jo&feature=related<\/p>\n

James formed in the early eighties.\u00a0 The band is still going strong.\u00a0 James did split up for a few years.\u00a0 Tim Booth enjoyed limited success on his own.\u00a0 The band reformed in 2007 and has since released three fairly successful albums (the last two are actually mini-albums).\u00a0 The singles collection was also updated (the first compilation was released in 1998).\u00a0 I haven’t heard the new material but I have read positive reviews.<\/font><\/p>\n