New York Noise

EMAIL PRINTby Various Artists

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Album Info

Label: Soul Jazz

Release Date: 30 June 2003

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Experimental

Summary

This 16-track compilation offers an impressive sampling of the New York underground scene from the late 1970s and early 80s, including cuts from "no-wave," post-punk, experimental and hip-hop artists such as ESG, Material, DNA, Defunkt, and Liquid Liquid.

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What The Critics Said

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Stylus Magazine

Played start-to-finish, New York Noise begins to cohere into a joyously multi-hued mass, where hip-hop is a natural cousin of atonal noise, where minimalism becomes the perfect complement to funk, and where not even the skronked-out mess of DNA or the melodramatic ultra-seriousness of Glenn Branca can get in the way of a good party.

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All Music Guide

Another title that demonstrates what an awesome period the late '70s and early '80s was for music.

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Pitchfork

From hip-hop to no-wave, jazz-punk disco to house music to electroclash, sleek funk to crusty noise, there's a lot to cover, and Soul Jazz does the job admirably, touring the biggest landmarks and some of the interesting diversions not on the map, but nonetheless co-existing side-by-side.

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Q Magazine

Its brilliance lies in sifting the wheat from the enormous quantity of thenameless movement's chaff. [Aug 2003, p.119]

Rolling Stone

It feels like one big loft party, even when it veers into psychotic, dissonant No Wave by DNA and Mars.

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The Wire

New York Noise is exemplary: the right mix of 'hits' and obscurities. [#233, p.71]

Uncut

The vast majority of it still sounds like what it was: cerebral, bloodless 'dance' music for junkies, the kind of posturing Gotham tripe we used to describe as "atonal" and "angular." [Aug 2003, p.120]

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