| · America's answer to Massive Attack, 10 years late.
While it's generally a mistake to approach a CD recorded by a dance DJ in the same way as one would approach a CD recorded by a regular band, it's generally a mistake for a dance DJ to record a CD in the first place.
Angel, the woman behind 60 Channels, has been working clubs on both sides of the Atlantic for the last five years, following a 1998 debut that caught the mood of the times, mixing the sound of different U.K. acts such as Laika and Massive Attack. Her second album, again featuring a clutch of vocalists
ranging from Frente's Angie Hart to Asian Dub Foundation's Navigator, leans much more heavily towards dub, and while the result probably works quite well in a live setting, those who don't like to test their homes' structural integrity with their sound systems will find Covert Movements as light on musical content as it is bass-heavy.
Still, kudos to any woman who manages the DJ-writer-producer, label boss and occasional vocalist combo in this field.
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