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Reconstituted, sees Apell introducing more vocals and song-based elements into his eclectic fusion of trip-hop, drum n bass and dubby electronics, with even a couple of covers creeping into the tracklisting...heads looking for a bit of unpredictable early hours listening should find something to like here.
threedworld.com.au
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The heart and soul of this CD (Reconstituted) is the sometimes funky and always interesting instrumental pieces...The sound is at times techno but it reminds me more of the high energy pieces by Tangerine Dream than of the 90's techo scene.
englishprogrock.blogspot.com
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Album highlights include Pell’s take on Neil Young’s classic "Don’t Let it Bring You Down" featuring guest vocalist Rachael Hawkins, and an ethereal, down-tempo, rainy-day version of George Harrison’s Beatles-era "Long, Long, Long. "Dubya," is a Pell original with lyrics inspired by absurd quotes from current US President George W. Bush. In "Mobile Cell," Pell uses cellular interference as musical accompaniment to great effect. - kindweb.com
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Australian Anthony Pell takes music, samples and live performances from a wide variety of styles and puts them together to make some funky grooves. Imagine if Amon Tobin was going for a ’70s Parliament-Funkadelic sound ... There is a lot to recommend here, especially for fans of Amon Tobin. Exclaim (Canada) |
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This has definite Squarepusher influences but manages to carve its own little niche out ... plenty of cool stuff going on to keep you interested. Future Music Magazine (UK) on Entertainment Complex.
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Anthony Pell (Apell to his fans) provides listeners with a rich instrumental backdrop, creating the best experience one can have listening to music. Apell has made the drum tracks on Beaver Street & Beyond so intentionally fake, so otherworldly and with such a fervor that one can't help but be enthralled by the arrangements. Top Tracks: Summer, Lust.
Rating: 7.0/10 neufutur.com |
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From somewhere in the north-west fringe of Melbourne City emanates the wild and completely unbridled electronica of Apell. While bridled horses run rings around the racecourse nearby, Apell wanders freely through post-rock psychedelia, guitar-tinged electronica, noise, and anything else that catches his fancy ... something Danny Elfman would have written for as band; the weirdness factor is right at home with Beetlejuice. www.fasterlouder.com.au
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Drawing equally from Massive Attack, King Crimson, Moby and Bill Laswell, Beaver Street & Beyond runs the gamut of genres in the space of 13 compositions. Opening with a jazzy Entertainment Complex Apell would sit rather nicely next to a number of Clan artists, whereas Digirap adopts the rock with a strong dub undercurrent.
However, it's on the subtler moments (Tim & Tony and Summer) where Apell excels. Soothing synthetics combine with Latin-inspired acoustic guitar and darkened brass to create a nice epic feel a' la Radiohead. Another top quality Australian electronic release.
Warren Wheeler - The Sound Monitor
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Beaver Street & Beyond is the album of the crazy eccentric genious Australian composer....Come I said “Anthony Pell is a crazy one or a genius, or you are both!!” "Ah!! Finally a great disc!". Yes, why Beaver Street & Beyond is such a great disc, A DISC THAT MAKES YOU MOVE YOUR ARSE A, AND THEN NOT, A DISC THAT TAKES YOU TO SOCCER, THEN TO YOUR CRIB, THEN SHAKES YOU THEN IT AMUSES YOU!....there it is Beaver Street & Beyond! Most advised to anyone who loves music, in every form.
Paride Polimeno - Stillborn Extreme Music Zine (Italy)
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Could it be that along with the likes of John Zorn, APELL IS THE SECOND COMING OF FRANK ZAPPA?
It just might be worth a casual mention if nothing else. You can hear his past efforts from a variety of straight forward rock outfits emerge on tracks like Tim & Tony but it’s the eclectics packed within tunes like Exciting Soul Cock of the Stirring North, which boasts a merging of flamenco, Middle Eastern/Indian influences, and the bagpipe, that marries this album with your ears.
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Beaver Street & Beyond is a highly creative and ultra-modern blending of downtempo electronic music with guitars (electric and acoustic) and bass. Apell tosses in samples, drum loops, saxophone and keyboards into the sonic porridge, which is largely instrumental, save for a few vocal tracks and vocal samples. Beaver Street & Beyond gives you a sense at how forward thinking electronic artists can at least incorporate something a lot more human sounding into their work – Congrats to Apell for stepping forward and showing how it can be done. Guitar9.com (US)
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Beaver Street & Beyond represents an original and groovy album of SEDUCTIVE electronic music ... so diverse and multifaceted in style that it could appe(a)l to a number of different music fans, including those who LIKE MASSIVE ATTACK, UNKLE, GROOVE ARMADA, ZAPPA, RADIOHEAD, JOHN ZORN and many others.
Marc 'the MEMORY Man' Urselli-Schaerer (4 STARS at www.chaindlk.org)
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Crossing Over into Madness
Apell is the debut release from the MULTI-TALENTED Melbourne musician Anthony Pell. The disc combines elements of funk, jazz, and rock into BIZZARE ELECTRONIC BASED MUSIC. Impressively, Pell plays all the instruments on the recording. Which included drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals, saxophone and percussion. The vocals range from distorted voices to weird sound bytes. Similar to many ECCENTRICS, Pell has lots of fresh ideas, but sometimes loses focus. APELL DISPLAYS HOW AN ARTIST CAN CREATIVELY CROSS OVER INTO MADNESS, BUT WHEN IT ALL COMES TOGETHER FORMS ENJOYABLE MUSIC.
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Inscrutable Musical Mind
Respect for the Jaded comes from the inscrutable musical mind & home studio of down under musician Anthony Pell. It is a hard to describe piece of audio, with weird samples, driving bass/drum grooves, vocal snippets & loops of spoken statements, crying babies, screeching guitars…whew. A tour de force of a creative mind who lives in a world of his own…the industrial groove has muscle!
Marty Peters RECORDING (Magazine US)
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Doing Things a Little Differently
This is a quirky pop/rock effort that features a very creditable vocal performance (So Where Did You Hide?)….the synth lines sets this apart from many similar efforts. We like the changes of pace & tone that occur, and this is a track that showcases a songwriter who sounds like he isn't afraid to try & do things a little differently.
COMPUTER MUSIC (UK)
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