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For one of the most consistently inventive groups in mix culture, United Future Organization's debut falls way too close to the aural wallpaper zone. The influences -- cool jazz, light funk, and Brazilian percussion -- stand out as separate entities rather than meld together, and the rhythms are usually surprisingly static for a group predicated on making dancefloor denizens move. "The Sixth Sense" and "L.O.V.E" are dragged down by dull drumming before the Brazilian "Upa Neguinho" injects a bit of rhythm life. The songs centered around samples of beat icon Jack Kerouac and vocal jazzhero Jon Hendricks fare well, but elsewhere the repetition too often is just boring rather than pulling you into a groove. Only the Parisian cabaret accordion and Monday Michiru's vocals on "My Foolish Dream" and the breakout finale, "Off Road," really register strongly. United Future Organization is still obviously fitting the pieces of their sonic puzzle together and it shows in the timid, tentative mix as much as the music. From the evidence here, you wouldn't have expected the group to be capable of the quantam leap to No Sound Is Too Taboo -- but United Future Organization did just that.
© Don Snowden /TiVo
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Rob, FeaturedArtist - Robert Gallagher, ComposerLyricist - Raphael Sebbag, ComposerLyricist - Toshio Matsuura, ComposerLyricist - Tadashi Yabe, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Nigel Constantine Weir, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1993 UNIVERSAL SIGMA, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
Raphael Sebbag, ComposerLyricist - Toshio Matsuura, ComposerLyricist - Tadashi Yabe, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ariel Wizman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1993 UNIVERSAL SIGMA, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
Raphael Sebbag, ComposerLyricist - Toshio Matsuura, ComposerLyricist - Tadashi Yabe, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Nippon Phonogram
Edu Lobo, ComposerLyricist - Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Nippon Phonogram
Les Mccann, ComposerLyricist - Jon Hendricks, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Nippon Phonogram
Jack Kerouac, ComposerLyricist - Raphael Sebbag, ComposerLyricist - Toshio Matsuura, ComposerLyricist - Tadashi Yabe, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 USM JAPAN, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC.
Raphael Sebbag, ComposerLyricist - Toshio Matsuura, ComposerLyricist - Tadashi Yabe, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 USM JAPAN, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC.
Raphael Sebbag, ComposerLyricist - Toshio Matsuura, ComposerLyricist - Tadashi Yabe, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, MainArtist - M. Michiru, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1993 UNIVERSAL SIGMA, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
Raphael Sebbag, ComposerLyricist - Toshio Matsuura, ComposerLyricist - Tadashi Yabe, ComposerLyricist - United Future Organization, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 UNIVERSAL SIGMA, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
Album review
For one of the most consistently inventive groups in mix culture, United Future Organization's debut falls way too close to the aural wallpaper zone. The influences -- cool jazz, light funk, and Brazilian percussion -- stand out as separate entities rather than meld together, and the rhythms are usually surprisingly static for a group predicated on making dancefloor denizens move. "The Sixth Sense" and "L.O.V.E" are dragged down by dull drumming before the Brazilian "Upa Neguinho" injects a bit of rhythm life. The songs centered around samples of beat icon Jack Kerouac and vocal jazzhero Jon Hendricks fare well, but elsewhere the repetition too often is just boring rather than pulling you into a groove. Only the Parisian cabaret accordion and Monday Michiru's vocals on "My Foolish Dream" and the breakout finale, "Off Road," really register strongly. United Future Organization is still obviously fitting the pieces of their sonic puzzle together and it shows in the timid, tentative mix as much as the music. From the evidence here, you wouldn't have expected the group to be capable of the quantam leap to No Sound Is Too Taboo -- but United Future Organization did just that.
© Don Snowden /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 00:47:28
- Main artists: United Future Organization
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Music LLC
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1993 UNIVERSAL STRATEGIC MARKETING JAPAN, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC ℗ 1993 UNIVERSAL STRATEGIC MARKETING JAPAN, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
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