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'Coburn', the album, is a nineteen track romp through the crazy but commercial digitised world of Coburn - their aim, to produce a viable crossover between pop and underground. Well, it looks like they've just about accomplished that! If they're not creating sensuous soundscapes or 'orchestral' giants they're generating pulsating dance beats or chill-out vibes.
Coburn are DJ's/Producers Pete Martin and Tim Healey and they use their combined knowledge of sound and dynamics to construct this 'mash-up' of modern music that sounds like a headlong collision between Gwen Stefani, The Pet Shop Boys and a big truck containing tons of electronic gadgetry driven by a well seasoned and experimental MC. Overall the album has a pretty light feel and is an entertaining piece of work that certainly gets the job done - and some! Not content to just cherry-pick from contemporary musical themes, Coburn also dig deep into musical history and lift out some quite surprising and quite influential sounds and ideas and also manage to include a few 'ethnic' snippets . There's a touch of experimental psychedelia, some jangly 60's pop and occasional 'eastern' vibes if you listen hard enough. In fact, Coburn get close to doing 'digital-world music'.
Coburn is an interesting work that has so much variation running through it that it sometimes sounds a bit like an electro/dance sampler album. Nonetheless, Coburn will appeal to many with its infectious, foot-tapping dancey vibes and pop sensibility. It's clever, it's pretty chilled and it's very well done.
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