Number 224 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th CenturyBig Beat / Breaks
Let's Get Killed
1997 · big beat · breakbeat · trip-hop · downtempo
1500 Records · 31453 9100 1
№ 224 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century
Field recordings from New York streets over breaks; a film without pictures
Street recordings make New York feel like the lead instrument on Let's Get Killed. David Holmes builds around overheard voices, movement and mood until the album starts behaving like a film with the pictures removed. The city lingers after the tracks stop.
№ 6 on The 10 Best Big Beat and Breaks Albums
The Belfast DJ wandering New York with a tape recorder, collecting voices from strangers and building tracks around them. Big beat with literacy, and the record that pointed at the film-scoring career that followed.
Also ranked
- Dancefloor
- № 117
- Influence
- № 224
- External poll
- № 149
Tracklist
- A1Listen
- A2My Mate Paul
- A3Let's Get Killed
- B1Gritty Shaker
- B2Head Rush On Lafayette
- B3Rodney Yates
- C1Radio 7
- C2The Parcus & Madder Show
- C3Slashers Revenge
- C4Freaknik
- D1Cadell Returns
- D2Don't Die Just Yet
- D3For You