Roni Size - New Forms 2?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!

[joethelion]

so...

I don't know how to feel about this...
ok - obviously other than the first aspect of "damn, I feel so old, I can't believe it's already been ten years since I discovered that album"

(which I credit to one of the major aspects as to how/why I got into electronic music)


I just downloaded the tracks, and haven't listened to them yet, but here's the Amazon.com description

2008 release, coinciding with the 10th Anniversary of the original New Forms album from Roni Size Reprazent. To mark this anniversary, Roni Size has returned to re-edit New Forms' 13 original tracks. Four brand new tracks will also be featured including the single 'Don’t Hold Back', which manages to not only sound like a perfect bedfellow for the original thirteen tracks on New Forms but is also thoroughly contemporary. Not surprising perhaps, considering the timeless quality that Roni Size/Reprazent captured through the likes of 'Heroes', 'Share The Fall' and the top 20 single 'Brown Paper Bag'. 17 tracks.

[dubman]

wat

[mmm skyscraper]

source of the sample used in Destination

[joethelion]

Originally Posted by dubman

wat

yea... I know

it makes no sense whatsoever

here's the amazon link


I will say... he manages to absolutely RUIN "heroes" this time around

[dubman]

thats really bizarre
like... flat out admitting that youre done and have got nothing left.
his albums have sucked for years, why would he tweak himself in top form to match his nonsense of today

baffling.

[joethelion]

..."New Forms 2" is so frustrating that it's hard to describe how utterly confused (and angered) I am by its mere existence

like, if he said "oh, I always dug "New Forms" but wanted to present it as a continuous dj mix" that would be one thing

but I mean come the fuck on! "Brown Paper Bag" is barely over three-and-a-half minutes now

"Digital" and "Heroes" have sub-par, boring... monotonous beats sort of just thrown over top of them (that don't vary whatsoever through the whole track)

and the new songs... wow "Don't Hold Back" doesn't fit in AT ALL

...grumble

[den]

I've always thought it would be awesome to see Railing performed with a live band. Just a drum set and a bass guitar and a microphone.

[pafufta816]

roni size did a live thing on jools hollands tv show. it was with portisheads drummer, live bass, turntables. it was really cool

i read a review of this album when it was released and i didn't even bother to check it out. sounds like a really thoughtless concept. roni size should focus on creating new music in new contexts, but he's selling something that was relevant 10+ years ago.

[joethelion]

I am off to bed right now
but I've got an old live recording from the New Forms Tour

tomorrow morning I'll upload it

[joethelion]

back to the "good old days"

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ullias