Behind the Sun: Chicane: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Overture

2. Low Sun

3. No Ordinary Morning

4. Saltwater (Orginal)

5. Halcyon

6. Autumn Tactics

7. Overlap

8. Don't Give Up

9. Saltwater (The Thrillseekers Remix)

10. Andromeda

11. Don't Give Up (Radio Edit-Bonus Track)

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For some, outfits like producer Nick Bracegirdle's Chicane are not easy to swallow. Isolating the more jubilant properties of trance, the beat is a light bounce, levitating above club-dance brainlessness, sounding like a house music hybrid meant for sparkling sunshine instead of dark and sweaty warehouses. They exist in an idealized, pseudo-enlightened fairy tale filled with bright colors and youthful beauty. But that's not the problem. What rankles purists and picky fans is the audacity with which these "techno" artists go after the unconverted common folk, dragging electronic music out of its druggy, "in-crowd" pretensions. Bracegirdle and contemporaries like Olive, Sneaker Pimps, and BT (the last, most noticeably on his Movement in Still Life) are waging a turf war on the boundaries between techno and pop music, each using different tactics and borrowing from different sources. Chicane throws out an especially cutting salvo in the battle here, and it's a doozy. None other than Bryan Adams lends his raspy tenor to the subtle grooves and euphoric dreaminess of "Don't Give Up." It's one thing for Liam Gallagher to lend his pipes to a Chemical Brothers track, or for BT to tap Tori Amos for the ubiquitous club hit "Blue Skies," but Bryan Adams? Is this heresy? Or an ingenious use of vocal color that yields an incredibly hummable dance anthem? Maybe it's best not to analyze What It All Means. Just sit back and enjoy the summery grooves, trusting these ongoing musical inspirations to become whatever they need to be. --Matthew Cooke

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Japanese Version Featuring A Bonus Track: Don'T Give Up (Disco Citizens Vs. Tomski Remix)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Afternoon of Musical Bliss, Sep 28 2003

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zaitrancer (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Behind the Sun (Audio CD)

Unabashedly what some would call commercial pop trance, but who cares? It's about how the music moves you and not how 'purist' or 'elitist' you are, eh?

Chicane's 'Behind The Sun' playing over the headphones will carry you away to that serendipitous place where everything is beautiful. I'm talking about that sort of moment you can live in forever--a deep, contented warmth in the depth of your being. You know, that state of mind that is rarer and rarer in this hectic world--that place where the doors to all your cares magically close for a time.

This album has it all. Tracks with soaring, mellow synths; soft vocals, energised light beats that hover over the dancefloor, and yes even Bryan Adams. This isn't an album that you have to listen to over and over to finally 'get'. There are not layers upon layers of sounds and exquisite mixing that get better and better with age. It's a light aural delight from the moment you pop it into the CD player.

Although there are undoubtedly masterpieces out there that are definitive of all things electronica that are indeed on a deeper, more intellectual level with astounding mixing and track sequencing, Chicane's 'Behind The Sun' will both energise and move you to tears within the space of an hour. It's a musical journey you don't want to miss.

To be sure, electronica is a genre in which you mature and learn to appreciate deeper forms of the music over time, but this is relaxation or dance music pure and simple. Highly recommended for those new to the trance genre or those sceptics wanting to give it a whirl.

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3.0 out of 5 stars an ok background filler, July 4 2004

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Lizzie D (Wellington New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Behind the Sun (Audio CD)

I was introduced to Chicane via a friend giving me a copy of the track Halcyon and I just loved it. So with a positive first experience and all the amazon online reviews raving about the album Behind the Sun I went out and bought it.
There are a few stand out moments such as Halycon and Don't Give Up but for me the rest of the album really fails to fly. Personally I find it a bit dreary and thats really what all these reviews are about, personal opinion. This album is also not helped by the fact a lot of it sounds like stuff I have heard before eg I listen to Saltwater and all I can hear is Harry's Game by Clannad.
For atmosphere I would rather listen to Delerium or Conjure One not this.

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5.0 out of 5 stars boochiboy, April 22 2004

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Jerold T. Payney "boochiboy" (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Behind the Sun (Audio CD)

Wow!

Some kind of a cross between Dance & New Age with a great attitude.

The Critics say this & that about this CD......I am not really a Trance fan, but this CD works really well, with the beats used.

Dance, Spiritual, Meditation??? Does that really work together?
YES IT DOES!

For me I hear the music style of Flock of Seagulls, Enigma, Tangerine Dream & Enya...but again, you can do some serious clubbing with a few of the tunes as well.

I am very please with this CD..... I beleive you shall be too!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Follow-Up to FFTMC
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