HYBRID
Wider Angle
DISNCD63
Distinct'ive 2000
21 Tracks. 149mins50secs

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Although Wide Angle was released nearly a year ago, and that it was our album of the year in ’99, it was never actually reviewed here. So, now that Distinct’ive have decided to re-release it as a limited double album, we’re putting it right.
Do you remember how you felt the first time you’ve heard Electribe 101’s Electribal Memories or Massive Attack’s Blue Lines? Do you remember how these records didn’t sound like anything else around? How they sounded so far ahead? Wide Angle is of the same calibre. It grabs you and doesn’t let go. Never. And the comparison to Blue Lines doesn’t stop here. What strikes first with Hybrid’s album, is the combination of break beats, trance, luscious strings, similar to the ones heard on Unfinished Sympathy, and amazing vocal performance by Julee Cruise. Then it is the homogeneity of the sound throughout. This record sounds like the combined soundtrack of Dr Zivago, any James Bond movie and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Wide Angle is a massively ambitious debut. And where most would have either been shy or fallen into complacency, the Hybrid boys never seam to be able to do anything wrong.
The addition of a second CD, including tracks recorded live, hence the crowd noises, and the collaboration with Chrissie Hynde, is only a bonus to all music lovers. This album is just indispensable. It’s either you have it… or you’re out of it!

5/5

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TRACKLIST

Wide Angle
Opening Credits
If I Survive
I Know
Beachcoma
Dreaming Your Dreams
Snyper
Theme From Wide Angle
Sinequanon
High Life
Fatal Beating
Finished Symphony
Altitude (Red Square Reprise)

Live Angle
Kid 2000
Burnin'
Snyper
Accelerator
High Life
Finished Symphony
Kill City
Altitude
Kid 2000 12" Original Mix

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