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Killing Puritans | 
enlarge | Artist: Armand Van Helden Label: Ffrr Category: Music
List Price: £15.99 Buy New: £0.90 You Save: £15.09 (94%)
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Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 146977
Media: Audio CD Discs: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 685738331925 EAN: 0685738331925 ASIN: B00004TG99
Release Date: May 29, 2000 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Killing Puritans (Intro) | | • | Little Black Spiders | | • | Breakdancers Call | | • | House Boxing | | • | Full Moon | | • | Koochy | | • | Watch Your Back (Headhunters) | | • | Hybridz | | • | Flyaway Love | | • | Swampthang | | • | Conscience |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review NY DJ Van Helden has described his second LP, Killing Puritans, as his "Sex Pistols" record. Generically "dance", he loads his tracks with a Rollins-like spleen and raw production that seems to kick against the complacency of Ecstasy culture. The record opens with a rant against the corporate machine and moves swiftly to The Scorpions sampling metal-dance of "Little Black Spiders" and meta-cool of "Breakdancers Call"--jazz solos, b-boy licks and Fatboy fills. His pace and breadth are fearless--from the Will Smith apeing block party of "Full Moon" (with rapper, "Common") to the low-end booty of "Hybridz" and apocalyptic preachers sampled from Central Park. The LP swells with classics--"Flyaway Love" detonates hellfire over an Ibizan disco-dream and finale "Conscience" howls with urban empathy. Backing a soaring blues from Wu-Tang's Takeitha with a ferociously ramped-up mix, Armand ends his LP with rave's "Inner City Blues". It's an extraordinary, unblushing work.
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| Customer Reviews:
House Music all night long (say what?) January 8, 2004 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Fantastic Album!! Once you get past the shaky first couple of tracks. Sorry Mr van Helden, I do like "Little Black Spiders", but it wouldn't be my choice for opening track...The standout track is "Hybridz"; an old-skool track straight from a 1986 Sugar Hill block party. Very Jungle Brothers, and very good. Other quality productions are "Flyaway Love", which captures the spirit of the terrace at Space (Ibiza) rather well; "Koochy", a Gary Numan remix; and "Conscience", rip-roaring vocal jimmy with Wu-Tang's Tekitha. Very nice. The cover art is pretty special, too. If you like kids with guns.
A blend of music to suite anyone June 30, 2000 Mr. B. Milne (Aberdeen, Scotland) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first heard this Album when my friend bought it and I got it the very next day. Every track is so different, from the Banging beats of 'Breakdancer Call' to the Will Smith style hip hop track 'Full Moon'. Turn it up loud and savour the sounds!
Hmmm...different June 15, 2000 mrmacu@hotmail.com (Cheshire, England) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're expecting to hear the same old cheesy tunes from his last album but remixed, then think again. At first i wondered if the cd had been put in the wrong box because of his new styles. There is a huge range of music styles, rock, dance and their's even a Will Smith-a-like with the 'Full Moon' song. Even though it is a big change does not mean its pants, it is in fact fantastic. On writing this review i have owned it for less than a full day, but if i like it now i know i will love it forever as new things take time for me to accept. Great one Helden!
this years fatboy slim album June 3, 2000 earlyworm@ilovesuebarker.co.uk (sussex) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i first heard koochy when a demo version came into the radio station at uni. i have to say that i thought that it was some kind of sick joke. i thought it was the ultimate rip off job ever, and something that mr sean coombs would have ben proud of. it even became a bit of an in joke about how bad the record was, worst record of the year also popped into my head.then i heard koochy in a nightclub and suddenly i could feel the bass and hear the thumping tune that it actually was. coming back to it on record again makes me snigger slightly but its on my going out minidisc purely because of how thumping it actaully is. alongside koochy, we have "little black spiders" (blatantly fatboy slim), "full moon" (blatantly phatts and small) and hybridz (almost blatantly prodigy). its a culmination of all the hit records accross any dance genre of the last five years and as such serves a great purpose, its a going out record. it may not be the most original piece of plastic that'll spin in your player this year, but it may well be one of the most memorable.
Absolutely brilliant ! May 31, 2000 mar@freemail.it (viareggio,Italy) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a true masterpiece!All of the tracks are incredible.From house to funk,from big beat to jazz! 75 minutes of every type of music,real music against trance! Armand is an absolute genius! Don't think, buy it now!
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