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Pelican City - The Chilling Effect (1999)

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Music, Nu Jazz / Broken Beat, Trip-Hop, Ambient / Downtempo / Easy Listening, Lossless

Tracklist

1. Over From the Start (Intro/Outro)
2. The City
3. The Bleeding Fader
4. Still Alone
5. The Search
6. The Fool (Neutral Milk Hotel)(A Pelican City Experiment)
7. Danger's Theme Part I
8. Danger's Theme Part II
9. Calling the Birds
10. The Chase
11. Come On Air (Wunderkind) (A Pelican City Experiment)
12. The Bedroom
13. The Rainstorm
14. The End of Life
15. An Exodus

The music on this CD almost sounds as if it is being played from an old record. It is a very moody and sad soundtrack and can be very intense at times. The are lots of layers to each song and each listen can bring you closer to a full understanding of the music.

Athens based band Pelican City creates a cinematic backdrop of moody, downtempo trip hop sounds. On the latest album, Hip Hop DJ/Producer Brian Burton collaborates with guitarist Todd Monfalcone, horn player Josh Perry, and sax player John Bell. The combination of deep & heavy Hip Hop beats, melodic guitars, cinematic string arrangements, and chilled out horns create the scenery for the Pelican City's new album, Rhode Island. Burton started Producing and DJing about 3 years ago. He started out mainly doing Hip Hop projects under the alias Danger Mouse and has released 4 Hip Hop mix CDs available on Hiphopsite.com. In 1999 he was voted "Best Hip Hop Act" in Athens as a DJ, awarded by Flagpole Magazine. Then again in 2000, he was voted "Best DJ" in Athens also awarded by Flagpole Magazine. Some of the acts he has opened for include Outkast, Goodie Mob, Biz Markie, & an upcoming show with Dan "The Automator." After spending a summer in Chicago, he was inspired to create the first Pelican City album, "The Chilling Effect." This album, a soundtrack for a film that remains a mystery, featured a tripped out Remix of the Neutral Milk Hotel song "The Fool." The Chilling Effect was called "moody, noirish trip hop in a blunted, Portishead/Kruder & Dorfmeister vein" by MAGNET Magazine. The new album, Rhode Island, is the musical description of a place. Pelican City, Rhode Island is the city that the film The Chilling Effect took place in. The city on this album sounds dark and mesmerizing...