Episode II: New Edition

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Uffe Savery and Morten Friis have made a great album here. I'll just go over the tracks.

Played-A-Live: Being the most famous track on this CD, of course it's good. It got up to #2 on Hitlist Germany. It's quite fast paced. It has a great start and the "exciting part" of comes of a quiet, slow part in the song, which I like.

Snakefood: It does have a "snaky" sound to it. It includse an Indian or Arab snake charming flute number, and some it does give the mood of a cunning snake.

A-Gusta: I like the marimbas in this track. They give a soft touch, but then there are these low pitched melodies they add in that toughen the song. But I like the change.

Samb Adagio: It's a good track. Nothing too special. It's just the percussion and a tad of electric effects.

Everything: It starts with some echoing "Zoom"s and has this kind of scary, yet saddening high note of violins, maybe? It's a little borign to me, though.

Everything Epilogue: Still has a sad tone to it, but it's more interesting then the original Everything. Uses mainly marimbas.

Crazy Benny: starts with them Australian pipes used by Aboriginies, Didgeridoos. Strts off kind of wied, but gets pretty, "dancy." Includes some scratches.

Baya Baya: A nice peaceful, with natural sounds of the beach environemt in the background. And of course the "B-B-Baya!". It makes you think of beign on vacation. A softer song, tat calms you down.

Adagio: Not as lively as Samb-Adagio. It's anther softer one. It's my least favorite, but it's still OK.

Overall, it's a good CD. These guys are jsut as good as Blue Man Group, but it's only 2 and their Danish. Note, that the slow, soft songs, aren't too bad, and this is still 5 star.

A dance-group using synths and especially drums as their trademark, pretty unique sound actually. The great melodies match the drums just perfect. "Played A Live" was one of the biggest and most played dance song of that year and it's also the highlight of this album. But there's more then just one song here. "Samba-Dagio" is a samba influneted song, hence the name. "A-Gusta" is a cool song with a electro sound, synths and drums. The group are still alive, recently they had a hit i Europe with "All the people in the world" a remix of a pop song. The album itself is passable, defenitely a diffrent experience but the song have a tendacy to sound very simular after a while with a few exceptions. Still allright to purchase.