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Product Identifiers

Record LabelMercury / Talkin Loud / Universal

EAN0731453493421

eBay Product ID (ePID)109665384

Product Key Features

Era1990s

Run Time4716 Sec

FormatCD

Release Year2006

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenreElectronic

StyleClub/Dance, Electronica, Ethereal, Jungle/Drum'n'Bass

TypeAlbum

ArtistRoni Size/Reprazent

Release TitleNew Forms

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

DistributionUniversal Distribution

Number of Tracks23

Country/Region of ManufactureEngland

ReviewsIncluded in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", Ranked #13 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year.", Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997.", Ranked #7 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year.", Included in AP's '10 Essential Pioneering Electronic Albums'., 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...drum-and-bass that employs live instruments and shoots straight down the middle....Size and Reprazent make the best case yet for drum-and-bass as the ultimate end-of-the-century urban-soul music.", "Like Soul II Soul, Bristol, England-bred Size and his group, Reprazent, create a funked-up soundscape of jazzy riffs, horns, wistful vocals, spacey bursts and pops, and MC toasting..." - Rating: A, Ranked #28 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll., Ranked #38 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", 8 (out of 10) - "...It's this year's consensus electronica album....Reprazent understand that the real `jazz thing' going on in drum'n'bass....resides in the rhythm section--the relationship between hyper-syncopated breakbeats and the roaming, ruminative, but always visceral bass...", Ranked #15 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., "The album remains a tonic and astonishing listen....NEW FORMS still gives off a lot of heat.", "...The Bristol-based Roni Size and the Reprazent posse...audibly smash all preconceptions of drum'n'bass's being inaccessible....Roni Size and Reprazent have created new forms to love, cherish, and behold.", "...contains more vision...imagination in the first few minutes of it's opening track than 99 percent of any album, from any genre so far this year...the finest drum n'bass album of all time....it is to the Nineties what "Sgt. Pepper" was to the Sixties; a record of unbridaled passion."

Additional InformationThe Bristol drum'n'bass maverick's multi-platinum, Mercury Prize-winning opus featuring his crew of vocalists, instrumentalists, and co-producers.