Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Bond: Classified


Bond: Classified [Asian Edition]
Label: Decca | Release Date: 2004 | MP3 320 kbps: 146 MB | APE & CUE: 544 MB
Genre: Classical Crossover

"Amazon.com
Bond is a string quartet made up of four good-looking women, two from Australia, two from Great Britain. Their training is in purely classical music, which this CD certainly is not. Their previous CD was banned from the UK classical charts, presumably because of the overly insistent use of beats and other intrusions, and this CD too contains African, electro, Latin and hip-hop beats. Bond will be the first to acknowledge that they're heavily influenced by the club scene and pop culture from London to Bangkok. Here they are joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the sound is enormous: there's level upon level of overdubbing. Some of the tracks have, as their basis, classical works: Pachelbel's Canon, snippets of Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, Carmen's Habanera, Brahms' Hungarian Dance no. 5, Barber's Adagio for Stings. But the sound we get is lush, beat-heavy, club-ish, full of excitement and basic rhythms, and the "classical" connection--aside from the melodies from the above-mentioned pieces--must be taken on faith. The women's solo playing, if there is any, is not audible. The over-riding feel is disco; this is for dancing and for creating a mood of excitement.
Robert Levine
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01. Explosive
02. Scorchio
03. Midnight Garden
04. Lullabye
05. Samba
06. Hungarian
07. I'll Fly Away
08. Dream Star
09. Highly Strung
10. Adagio lor Strings
11. Senorita
12. Explosive (Orion & Ed Leal Production)
13. Allegretto
14. Shine
15. Fuego
16. Strange Paradise
17. Speed
18. Big Love Adagio
19. Kashmir
20. Gypsy Rhapsody


MP3
http://rapidshare.com/files/55618164/B.C.MP.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/55617011/B.C.MP.part2.rar

APE-CUE
http://rapidshare.com/files/55617507/B.C.APE.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/55617469/B.C.APE.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/55617587/B.C.APE.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/55617646/B.C.APE.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/55618326/B.C.APE.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/55617112/B.C.APE.part6.rar

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