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- Summary: The second album for the Dutch electronic producer sees him exploring the life of a DJ and being on the road.
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- Record Label: Brainfeeder
- Genre(s): Electronic, Club/Dance
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Dec 7, 2011The whole sternly focused thing is laced with enough emphasis on sound design to function as an immersive headphone listen, while at least two-thirds of it can drain one's energy on a dancefloor.
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Oct 20, 2011From his eulogy of Detroit strings and deep beats, to London's ambiguous constant reinvention of bass culture, these are tracks that will hold their own in any city with DJs operating at the forefront of the shifting beat.
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Oct 20, 2011If the Dutch producer's last album 'Great Lengths' was an exercise in contemplative, spacious dubstep, then Ghost People is instinctual; muscles tensed in observance of the cerebellum's basest of commands.
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Oct 31, 2011Ghost People is the sound of Martyn cozying up to house music and mastering it, as close to focused and standing still as a restless artist like him could ever get.
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Oct 20, 2011While it often lacks the moodier, polyrhythmic highs of Great Lengths and the character that came with it, Martyn's efforts to make it back through no-nonsense propulsion nearly make up for it.
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The WireDec 6, 2011Dance album of this level of consistent quality are rare. Yet ultimately, no groove in this album particularly reach out and little new, different or memorable is offered for the imagination. [Oct 2011, p.65]
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Q MagazineNov 8, 2011Classy cross-pollination of techno and dubstep.[Nov. 2011, p. 136]
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Nov 8, 2011Great album. It doesn't hit you with anything at the beginning but slowly wins you over. There is never any 'wow' moment but the sounds very original.
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