Recorded: 1999 Released: 2000
Label: Ntone / Ninja Tune
Catalog#: Ntone CD 40
Style: Nu Jazz, Downtempo

Flanger are Uwe Schmidt (info (http://anonym.to/?http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/atom_heart/; info (http://anonym.to/?http://www.atom-heart.com/) and Burnt Friedman (info (http://anonym.to/?http://www.nonplace.de/)

Track listing
01. Nightbeat 1 [3:53]
02. Bosco's Disposable Driver [5:51]
03. Midnight Sound [5:22]
04. We Move [5:58]
05. So What [6:11]
06. Human Race Race [5:34]
07. Angel of Love [6:38]
08. Nightbeat 2 [4:04]
09. Stepping Out of My Dream [7:16]

"Midnight Sound" is the real thing, a musical expedition that charts some new territory, a coherent work alive with vitality and authenticity. This album creates new musical blends that will intrigue listeners in both South America and Europe. With Flanger, Atom Heart and Burnt Friedman found a place where they could indulge their sheer love of playing. "On much of the second album" states Flanger in short, "we played jazz and added the latin flavour wherever we could". Not only their wealth of ideas but also their ability to "humanize" the sounds of samplers, coupled with the funkiness of their music, is evident on this album. With electrically defamiliarized instrument-set-ups, "Midnight Sound" ignores all the stylistic pigeon-holes that critics so love squeezing musicians into. There seems to be nothing Flanger is reluctant to touch upon. Atom Heart and Burnt Friedman's post-electronic themes provide an incredible, ear-opening glimpse into the new directions for popular music - music that may soon make every kind of music we have known before seem obsolete. A most compelling invitation, engraved in Hi-Fi. --Clemens Moreira

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