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Early 90s mixtape discussion caused this ....

for me, search "Drop", and "In Gorbachev We Trust" ... it's rapidly, rapidly downhill from then on.

― phil, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually think En-Tact is a great album. Hyperreal yum.

― N., Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Personally I'd destroy everything. But I am far too lazy. Why waste the energy?

― cuba libre (nathalie), Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

_Drop_ and _En:Tact_ (UK version) are both fantastic, as are many of the remixes from _En:Tact_ (as N. says, "Hyperreal", yum). Also, I think "Boss Drum" is a deeply underrated single.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think En-Tact was significant at the time, for surfing the zeitgeist of dance music, and because of the Shamen's concert / club night synthesis as an innovative format.

But the music? Now it just sounds like easy listening indie / house. Whereas the acid house remix of Strange Day's Dream (97) was a total revelation to me. You could use all this weird acid stuff in a song? How fucked was that?

I don't think they ever became innovative as dance producers. That was for Orbital, Orb and later The Prodigy etc. to run with.

― phil, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was surprised how much I disliked Boss Drum (the album) after loving En-Tact so much. They really do sound like two different groups. The singles off Boss Drum are pretty nifty though.

― Vinnie, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think they ever became innovative as dance producers. That was for Orbital, Orb and later The Prodigy etc. to run with.

I absolutely agree with this, actually. Where we differ is that I think that _En-Tact_ has aged remarkably well. The first 7-8 tracks are immensely wonderful.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I was surprised how much I disliked Boss Drum (the album) after loving En-Tact so much."

My feelings too.I have the US version of En-Tact,and it holds up very well.Hyperreal Selector,the MeatBeatManifesto remix,is one of my all time faves!

― dek1, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The original "Pro>Gen" and nowt else

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always wondered how it was possible for The Shamen to go so quickly to shit after Will Sin's death.. even if it was designed.

Either way, yeah, I can't say I have the same passion for The Shamen as I did several years ago, but certainly "Drop", "What's Going Down" and surrounding singles, "In Gorbachev We Trust", "Phorward", and "En Tact" are all highly classic.

"Omega Amigo" was a grossly underrated pop single.

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

I am intrigued about this 1988 album Strange Day Dreams with three Syd Barrett covers. Glitterhouse compare them to The Triffids and The Doors. Is it worth the 5.25 €?

Boss Drum was quite all right at the time but I will hardly ever listen to it again.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I have "Strange Day Dreams"... it's just a weird collection released on an Italian label that collects B-sides, singles, and oddities from around the time of "Drop" and "What's Going Down?". The live version of the title track has Angus making fun of his roadie..."(something) tons of Scottish Blubber!". Kinduva weird contrast from "E's are good, E's are good!", I have to say.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm currently going through a nostalgia spiral and I think both 'en-tact' and 'boss drum' are pretty damn neat. Whatever that stupid album was that they released afterwards was total crap, though.

The cover art on 'Boss Drum' is just so early-nineties futuristic, though. It's worth it to me just for that. It looks like the cover of a Nintendo game.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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