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For all its irrepressible sonic whimsy, Production also reveals quite a bit of unexpected depth.
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It's all remarkably effective. In capturing "the ghost in the machine," Mirwais has made a most warm and humane album.
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Mirwais lays down grooves that aren't even sensual; they're rambunctiously horny.
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A collection of songs that are as clever and intelligently crafted as they are danceable.
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Alternative PressFilled with laid-back, intelligent electronica equally suited to dancing and chilling, Production ultimately succeeds through its deft combination of strikingly disparate elements. [#153, p.79]
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Production is a dance record, but Mirwais is no mere slave to the rhythm. While other artists keep the BPM pumped up, the songs here drift and simmer. "V.I. (The Last Words She Said Before Leaving," for example, creeps along at a funereal pace for more than six minutes and doesn't catch much of a beat until four minutes in.
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MixerUnrestrained by the limits of producing a radio-friendly album, Mirwais produced an excellent album that can be appreciated by both fans and critics of Madonna. [Apr 2001, p.92]
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Something of a mixed bag, "Production" teeters between grating aimlessness and uniquely dark, claustrophobically compressed runs through the Vocoder-happy lands of French house music.
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RevolutionThe only real disappointment is the sub-Air styling of "Naive Song," its vocoded lyrics sounding almost like a pastiche of his fellow Frenchmen's work. [Sept 2000, p.113]
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Cerebral, meticulous and frivolous, Production is a disco-science celebration of pop trash that most electronica gurus would be too spiritually elevated to deliver. Mirwais' knack for song puts him in another league altogether
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What could have been a huge breakthrough instead sounds staid, as if he were so used to rocking the house that he didn't want to risk rocking the boat.
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teopNov 28, 2005the best album of 2001
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JeanR.Oct 21, 2001One of the best albums of 2000! Each song symbolizes something special in its own way! Brilliant sound effects and PRODUCTION!