- Audio CD (July 31 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Universal Music Group
- ASIN: B00005A11O
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #39,407 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Heartfixer |
| 2. Something Special |
| 3. Nu Chic |
| 4. Sabbatical |
| 5. Better Now |
| 6. Death By Chocolate |
| 7. Jeunesse Doree |
| 8. Online |
| 9. Jim The Jinn |
| 10. Roy's Choice |
| 11. Trash Box |
| 12. Jump Over |
| 13. Maybe San Jose |
| 14. Love's Labour Lost |
| 15. North West |
| 16. Saw It On The Radio |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
De Phazz are a Heidelberg-based combination of composers, arrangers, musicians and vocalists who play their own mixture of easy listening, cool jazz, Brazilian exotica--and even a splash of dancehall reggae when they feel like it. Death By Chocolate is actually a little less playful than their last album Godsdog. The humorous samples are still there but remain more in the background, while the foreground is taken up by quirky but lovable music and witty lyricism. The anchors of the project are producer Pit Baumgerter, songwriter Pat Appleton and composer Otto Engelhard, though the featured artists run to about 20 personnel and cover a wide variety of bizarre names and great instruments. There's a love of irony and irresistible, feel-good music throughout this album that keeps it buoyant and captivating throughout. And the range of sounds and moods is quite dazzling: gleeful, insouciant humour on "Something Special ("You' re So Special--Just Like Anybody Else" sings Appleton), subtle reggae licks on Nu Chic and Sabbatical, upbeat club thumps on "Better Now", downtempo jazz of the title track and overt bossa rhythms and French lyrics of Jeunesse Doreé. A little like being at a retro cocktail party, sipping on outrageously decorated drinks and indulging in flirtatious lounge chat, Death By Chocolate is certainly a good way to go. --Paul Sullivan
Product Description
DE PHAZZ Death By Chocolate (2001 UK 16-track CD album and the third from the German producer-led downtempo outfit who are set to blend soul latin trip hop and even drum & bass into a seriously funky album. Includes the brilliant opener Heartfixer as well as Sabbatical and Death By Chocolate. Housed in a fancy digipack picture sleeve)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
still in love......,
By anne "pocaa" (québec) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death By Chocolate (Audio CD)
I bought this CD maybe 3 years ago.........and i am not tired of it at all.....still groovy, still goooood...a little funky....brings a smile in your face all the time..sound is wonderfull....De-Phazz are sound magicians!!!! Can say tgis is still my #1!!!!!!!!!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of these things is JUST like the other!,
By Daly Mavorneen "Brimstone" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death By Chocolate (Audio CD)
If you like the retro-vocal melancholy, jazzy, cafeteria-style, insular-yet-panoramic, lush, smoky-lounge, orchestral, strange, ecstatic, DJ-scratchy, sublime, sampled and genre-bending compostions of Art of Noise, The Matthew Herbert Big Band, Enzso, Funki Porcini, Yello, Caleb's Cosmosis, Hugh Marsh, Future Sound of London, United Future Organization or Bowery Electric, then you will love this. 'NUFF SAID.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most significant discovery in years,
By Roderic Simon Potter (Carp, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death By Chocolate (Audio CD)
De Phazz are simply the most exciting group I have heard in what seems like a lifetime. Theirs is music at its best, the kind that everyone at our parties asks "what IS this music, it is fabulous". Do yourself a favour - if you want music that is varied in style, 99% brilliant, 100% easy on the ears, and very, very smooth, buy this album. After that, I expect you will investigate their other offerings, "Godsdog" being of similar quailty.
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