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Baka Beyond — Spirit of the Forest
Album: Spirit of the Forest
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Released: 1993
Length: 5:20
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EXCELLENT!   
Posted 1 day ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 myersei wrote:

Actually, I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but Jmaxi is right.  I used to listen to this genre a lot...not 100% my choice.  I remember when both came out.  This came out in '93.  Deep Forest's first album, which sounds very much like this, was released in '92 (US release in '93).  The album you mentioned above was Pacifiique, it didn't come out until the end of 2000.

If anyone was copying anyone it was Baka Beyond, copying Deep Forest.


Don’t know if actual copying happened, but I was hearing the lovely Deep Forest in this.  
I was introduced to Deep Forest by the crew in shipping/receiving at Xerox PARC when they learned I liked The Art of Noise. 
Posted 2 months ago by staygood    [ Reply ]
Superb
The set I just heard is William’s talent that makes me thank whoever for RP
Agnostic not atheist 
Not drowning just just waving
Thank you
Posted 5 months ago by michael_crf    [ Reply ]
 Lyndont wrote:

Reminds me of the great Bob Harris. They were one of his favourites. He used to play this album a lot on his Saturday night program. This was pre RP of course!



RIP Whispering Bob!
Posted 6 months ago by hellsgardener    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of the great Bob Harris. They were one of his favourites. He used to play this album a lot on his Saturday night program. This was pre RP of course!
Posted 10 months ago by Lyndont    [ Reply ]
 Rixter wrote:


Takes me back to days lost in Africa on my motorbike after quitting corporate slavery. I guess it wasn't slavery if I could quit... but it certainly felt like it!

African music is an acquired taste for a westerner but if you are exposed to it long enough, you get it.




Well, thanx to RP, I GET IT!!! GREAT TUNE!  Thank You RP!  
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]


Takes me back to days lost in Africa on my motorbike after quitting corporate slavery. I guess it wasn't slavery if I could quit... but it certainly felt like it!

African music is an acquired taste for a westerner but if you are exposed to it long enough, you get it.

Posted 2 years ago by Rixter    [ Reply ]
Soooo fine!!!!
Posted 2 years ago by davidgrorie    [ Reply ]
The first 15 sec brings fond memories back of this guy

Posted 2 years ago by maxvonevil    [ Reply ]
Took a few moments for this to get going, then the percussion started and it became a "most excellent" tune. I like the addition of the Celtic fiddle parts with the African beat.

Posted 2 years ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
 eileenomurphy wrote:
Interesting! I like it! I never heard of them before, Thank You RP!   


Local-ish band to us, seen em many times, always a great show. Su Hart did singing workshops at a drumcamp run by Ayo that we attended.. Awesome fun 
Posted 2 years ago by meanderer    [ Reply ]
I've always thought this was truly special; RP rules for playing it! The rhythms and naturally uplifting sounds remind me of seeing the Kecak Dance often in my 3 times to Bali, during which not only the performers chanting, "Kechak! Kechak! Kechak!" (and dancing as if possessed) but also all the onlookers, animals and insects in the entire jungle around can get into a trance-like state of frenzied celebratory abandonment to the cathartic healing power of Sound and Nature. Hearing this Divine magic makes me want to go back!
Posted 2 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
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Posted 4 years ago by georgetelidis    [ Reply ]
Still wonderful.
Posted 4 years ago by jmkate    [ Reply ]
 ShoreGirl wrote:
{#Roflol}  Wilco meets Fleet Foxes meets The Head and the Heart meets Rusted Root.
Posted 5 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
From time when there was still forest. According to TV news forest is no more. At least in Amazon.  
Posted 5 years ago by Pjesnik    [ Reply ]
The Baka Beyond vocalists are just superb. All their records are wonderful.
Posted 5 years ago by Piranga    [ Reply ]
boom chicka boom tap stomp, 

boom chicka boom tap stomp,

boom chicka boom tap stomp,

boom chicka boom tap stomp
Posted 5 years ago by mrtuba9    [ Reply ]
This rocks.
Posted 5 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
the band are based in Bath a few miles from where we live. seem them several times including a couple of festivals. always great fun to watch and dance to. even got married to one of their tunes
Posted 6 years ago by dubberdan    [ Reply ]
Great stuff
Posted 6 years ago by tony_b    [ Reply ]
the entire album is good.
Posted 7 years ago by jmkate    [ Reply ]
 chunkymunky wrote:

They're still going strong.  I've seen them thrice.  Twice in a packed to bursting-at-the-seams pub in Oxford in the early 00s and more recently in our village hall (lots of folk acts go through here including the likes of Fairport). 

Well worth a watch, and amusing to see a group of surprised looking west-country pensioners dancing away to a kind of music they didn't know they liked!

 
your village sounds most excellent!
Posted 7 years ago by shay_shay    [ Reply ]
 mgkiwi wrote:
This song is sooooo annoying!!!!  {#Frustrated}

 

agreed - it tilts me while playing Poker
Posted 7 years ago by Poopsey    [ Reply ]
This song is sooooo annoying!!!!  {#Frustrated}
Posted 8 years ago by mgkiwi    [ Reply ]
 TerryS wrote:
Saw Baka Beyond in the late 90's iirc and they were amazing live. Why, they even got me out of my seat and swaying. OK alcohol may have been involved.

 
They're still going strong.  I've seen them thrice.  Twice in a packed to bursting-at-the-seams pub in Oxford in the early 00s and more recently in our village hall (lots of folk acts go through here including the likes of Fairport). 

Well worth a watch, and amusing to see a group of surprised looking west-country pensioners dancing away to a kind of music they didn't know they liked!
Posted 8 years ago by chunkymunky    [ Reply ]
This is a very annoying tune!!!! {#Beat}
Posted 8 years ago by mgkiwi    [ Reply ]
{#Roflol}  Wilco meets Fleet Foxes meets The Head and the Heart meets Rusted Root.
Posted 8 years ago by ShoreGirl    [ Reply ]
 Toke wrote:
Correct me if I am wrong here but I am led to believe it is not yodelling but a Native call that is used in the Cameroons, and a comment I read said that this is Hypnotic which is not far from the truth as these Natives use this call/sound when having taking some magical mystic drug that is required to enable them to enter the spirit world and contact their ancestors. I am amazed at the negative comments which is beyond me as this sound/track in fact the whole album couples the Gallic rythmns with the drum beats of Africa intertwining as if they were one, or perhaps they are. I have only ever submitted 2 tens and this is one of them. 
 
Cameroon you say?
 
Posted 8 years ago by LPCity    [ Reply ]
Loaned this CD to a friend of mine way back when.  Never saw it again.  {#Mad}
Posted 8 years ago by skooba    [ Reply ]
{#Cheers} love this tune, it just always puts me in a good space{#Bounce}! 
Posted 9 years ago by willmcnaught    [ Reply ]
Saw Baka Beyond in the late 90's iirc and they were amazing live. Why, they even got me out of my seat and swaying. OK alcohol may have been involved.
Posted 9 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
 haresfur wrote:
World music fusion raises questions in my mind about cultural (mis)appropriation but I'm coming to the opinion that it is overall a good thing and just as valid for British musicians to incorporate African influences as it is for them to incorporate blues.  And the same is true for other cultures.  I love that there are groups world wide playing Reggae - including aboriginal Australians.

Aside: IMO this is particularly true in the case of young musicians who push the boundaries of their cultural influences and can bring fresh excitement  to those of us overly set in our ways.

 
Very true, just yesterday the kid next door was playing some "garage" in his bedroom!
Posted 9 years ago by stunix    [ Reply ]
very nice!
Posted 9 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
 (former member) wrote:


This is cool...  love it...



 
..somehow still cool..
Posted 10 years ago by cShaggy    [ Reply ]
{#Jump}  {#Guitarist}  {#Cheesygrin}
Posted 10 years ago by moodfood    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
Thanks for the PSD option.  Got to hear "Hit the Ground"

 
I got Pink Floyd — Have A Cigar !!
Posted 10 years ago by By_The_Bay    [ Reply ]
Hey.

You like this music?

Then maybe you like this film:

https://songfromtheforest.com

post produced by this company


www.edelbytes.com

;-)

Jakob 
Posted 10 years ago by yocups    [ Reply ]
Had a big shout out from some bloke tonight, about work, life, people, men, women
So tired about cliché
This came just perfectly to cast away all he shadows where I was wordless 
Posted 10 years ago by ambrebalte    [ Reply ]
 ziakut wrote:
{#Bananasplit}

 

...agreed 100%
Posted 10 years ago by drivingunit103    [ Reply ]
First time I have heard this: love the electric violin, the yodeling: not so much. But with such a great groove it still grabs me.
Posted 11 years ago by BBoyes    [ Reply ]
World music fusion raises questions in my mind about cultural (mis)appropriation but I'm coming to the opinion that it is overall a good thing and just as valid for British musicians to incorporate African influences as it is for them to incorporate blues.  And the same is true for other cultures.  I love that there are groups world wide playing Reggae - including aboriginal Australians.

Aside: IMO this is particularly true in the case of young musicians who push the boundaries of their cultural influences and can bring fresh excitement  to those of us overly set in our ways.
Posted 11 years ago by haresfur    [ Reply ]
Like it...reminds me of at time in a forest of the great NW with only drums and voices.
Posted 11 years ago by Larry_Rosenow    [ Reply ]
Wow, haven't heard this song since like 1995, massive nostalgia trip. Copied from CD using Midisoft's Sound Impression in Windows 3.1.
Posted 12 years ago by zigfreed    [ Reply ]
{#Bananasplit}
Posted 12 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
Thanks for the PSD option.  Got to hear "Hit the Ground"
Posted 12 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
 AndyJ wrote:


Cause some folks like it... You can always go to Pandora or Spoify and listen to -you- music ...altho to me that's like drinking ones own bathwater... RP adds new, old, different and keeps changing... That's why -I- like it... I never know what's coming...and I have spent a few hundred on CDs from the experience... I like new stuff...even if it's just Nu2Mi...
 
I agree with AndyJ here; well said!
Posted 12 years ago by JIan    [ Reply ]
Changing to an 8!     {#Think}
Posted 12 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
we be dancing in my trailer - thanks Bill
Posted 12 years ago by arserocket    [ Reply ]
 kaybee wrote:

Definitely Sting was influenced by African music, like the vocals in this piece.

Normally I don't like yodeling (if this is what it is) but I do like this.

  Correct me if I am wrong here but I am led to believe it is not yodelling but a Native call that is used in the Cameroons, and a comment I read said that this is Hypnotic which is not far from the truth as these Natives use this call/sound when having taking some magical mystic drug that is required to enable them to enter the spirit world and contact their ancestors. I am amazed at the negative comments which is beyond me as this sound/track in fact the whole album couples the Gallic rythmns with the drum beats of Africa intertwining as if they were one, or perhaps they are. I have only ever submitted 2 tens and this is one of them. 

Posted 12 years ago by Toke    [ Reply ]
I like the supporting music. It's almost trance inducing. {#Bananajumprope}
Posted 12 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
 glowworm wrote:
Oh why do we have to have this keep coming around? And why can't we rate songs as zero - its not worth 1!
 

Cause some folks like it... You can always go to Pandora or Spoify and listen to -you- music ...altho to me that's like drinking ones own bathwater... RP adds new, old, different and keeps changing... That's why -I- like it... I never know what's coming...and I have spent a few hundred on CDs from the experience... I like new stuff...even if it's just Nu2Mi...
Posted 12 years ago by AndyJ    [ Reply ]
 jmaxi wrote:
Rubbish- I was listening to Deep Forest in the Whirlygig in the earltyu '90s - miles better IMHO

 vit wrote:


Except that this came out 9 years before that song (see Spirit of the Forest Info vs Deep Forest Release Date)

So maybe Deep Forest sounds a little too much like Baka Beyond.
 
 
Actually, I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but Jmaxi is right.  I used to listen to this genre a lot...not 100% my choice.  I remember when both came out.  This came out in '93.  Deep Forest's first album, which sounds very much like this, was released in '92 (US release in '93).  The album you mentioned above was Pacifiique, it didn't come out until the end of 2000.

If anyone was copying anyone it was Baka Beyond, copying Deep Forest.
Posted 12 years ago by myersei    [ Reply ]
Oh why do we have to have this keep coming around? And why can't we rate songs as zero - its not worth 1!
Posted 12 years ago by glowworm    [ Reply ]
This is great background music to work by..I like the yodelling.

Posted 12 years ago by drewd    [ Reply ]
Theres' on;y one Irish/Gypsy/Appalachain song— it does "Di-dee-di, Dee-diddly-di"... Zzzzz... Oops- dozed off there.... <1>
Posted 12 years ago by misterbearbaby    [ Reply ]
Yodeling in the valley {#Tongue}
Posted 12 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
Love it.
Posted 12 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:
Did Sting rip off the yodel in this song? It sounds familiar.
 
Definitely Sting was influenced by African music, like the vocals in this piece.

Normally I don't like yodeling (if this is what it is) but I do like this.

Posted 13 years ago by kaybee    [ Reply ]
 rtunell wrote:
Time to retire this one.
 
Just a two-week vacation would be fine with me...
Posted 13 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 Boz wrote:
My will to live has departed and not in a good way. This is awful just awful.
 
The only thing lacking here is the ability to mute/ignore posters like you so that they disappear and disturb us never again. 

Posted 13 years ago by james_of_tucson    [ Reply ]
Best listened to in a decommissioned church with an enthusiatic audience.
Posted 13 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
 zanref wrote:
Sounds really good after Pink Floyd. Like a girl's warm, gentle and galvanizing kiss after a wonderful and deep sleep...

 

I want whatever it is you ingested!{#Eek}
Posted 13 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
My will to live has departed and not in a good way. This is awful just awful.
Posted 13 years ago by Boz    [ Reply ]
Yawn
Posted 13 years ago by actusreus    [ Reply ]
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:
Did Sting rip off the yodel in this song? It sounds familiar.
 
yodels?
There are plenty of Yodels to go 'round.


Posted 13 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Did Sting rip off the yodel in this song? It sounds familiar.
Posted 13 years ago by Ahnyer_Keester    [ Reply ]
 xkolibuul wrote:
Whatever. There's no hiding the fact that "civilization" as defined along Western lines is really, really good at destroying other ways of living in the world. Its been true ever since Europe had the wherewithall to send galleons across the Atlantic, it was true of colonialism, and its true of multinational corporations and consumerism presently. Time to grow up, dude, there's a lot of tragedy out there. Be thankful you apparently don't have to face it in person.

Posted 13 years ago by Businessgypsy    [ Reply ]
 rtunell wrote:
Time to retire this one.
 

Posted 13 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
Nice!
Posted 13 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
Sounds really good after Pink Floyd. Like a girl's warm, gentle and galvanizing kiss after a wonderful and deep sleep...

Posted 13 years ago by zanref    [ Reply ]
 lovemydog wrote:

I believe that is clapping and drumming. I don't think African Pygmies have a lot of access to tap shoes.

{#Rolleyes}
 
Apparently they found an electric bass...
Posted 13 years ago by q4Fry    [ Reply ]
SPIRIT of the saur forest!
Posted 13 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
I am back. Nice recovery from Marley, Bill.
Posted 14 years ago by michaelgmitchell    [ Reply ]
I know it's sort of low-rent fusion, but the essential magic of the forest people in these albums still hits me deep.  Just got back from Brazil, with different but intense, ancient indigenous cultures of its own (which are on the edge of extinction).

Posted 14 years ago by Jeff09    [ Reply ]
 HazzeSwede wrote:
Loony Spirits looping around,beyond funny! #6
 
4 x 2 = 8!  The second listen is always beneficial, i think.

Posted 14 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
Loony Spirits looping around,beyond funny! #6
Posted 14 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
An,This never gets old!
Posted 14 years ago by Kemoc    [ Reply ]
 rtunell wrote:
Time to retire this one.
 
bump

Posted 14 years ago by PFM    [ Reply ]
Time to retire this one.
Posted 14 years ago by rtunell    [ Reply ]

baka beyond by ~sholky2
Marko Solic  ©2009-2010 ~sholky2

ethnoambient 2009


Posted 14 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
 Felix_The_Cat wrote:
That Forest Spirit is just a loop?
 

Oh yes, most spirits are trapped in a loop, that is why they show themselves.{#Yes}
Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
Thanks for playing — love it!
Posted 14 years ago by rpfan101    [ Reply ]
That Forest Spirit is just a loop?
Posted 14 years ago by Felix_The_Cat    [ Reply ]
Great pick me up song.....what a nice suprise this afternoon
Posted 14 years ago by photolew    [ Reply ]
Heard this about one time too many.  Never turned down the volume on RP before, this is a first.
Posted 14 years ago by oilydwarf    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
Not a song.  I like songs.  2
 
Sure it is!

dictionary.com:
SONG ~ noun
1.a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
2.a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung: Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words."
3.poetical composition; poetry.
4.the art or act of singing; vocal music.
5.something that is sung.
6.an elaborate vocal signal produced by an animal, as the distinctive sounds produced by certain birds, frogs, etc., in a courtship or territorial display.



Posted 14 years ago by fingerpin    [ Reply ]
What a great afternoon pick me up....LOVE this tune
Posted 14 years ago by photolew    [ Reply ]
How this can come after a wonderful Nick Drake track really beats me...

Posted 15 years ago by namp    [ Reply ]
Rubbish- I was listening to Deep Forest in the Whirlygig in the earltyu '90s - miles better IMHO

 vit wrote:


Except that this came out 9 years before that song (see Spirit of the Forest Info vs Deep Forest Release Date)

So maybe Deep Forest sounds a little too much like Baka Beyond.
 


Posted 15 years ago by jmaxi    [ Reply ]
The problem for Pygmy tap dancers is that if they fall off and land in the sink, it's too far up to climb....
Posted 15 years ago by DavidS_UK    [ Reply ]
GMO world music.

Posted 15 years ago by j7    [ Reply ]
I thought it was Irish stepdancers a la Riverdance.  But no that would be Afro Celt Sound System...{#Eh}
<joke>

lovemydog wrote:

I believe that is clapping and drumming. I don't think African Pygmies have a lot of access to tap shoes.

{#Rolleyes}
 


Posted 15 years ago by Bridieboo    [ Reply ]
Why it's not a song? I think it accomplish more factors to be a song than works by Britney Spears, El canto del loco, Jonas Bros, Hanna Montana, any Reaggeton song, Paulina Rubio, Enrique Iglesias and a long etc of so-called "singers".

I like it quite much.

 lemmoth wrote:
Not a song.  I like songs.  2
 

Posted 15 years ago by AngieOrwell    [ Reply ]
The background sounds remind me of my neighborhood
Posted 15 years ago by EssexTex    [ Reply ]
 Null_Hypothesis wrote:

There isn't much deep rainforest left in Africa, it's all been cut down.

 
Not when I last looked. Plenty of wilderness left. OK not what it once was, but there are still many wonderful expanses of forest.

Can't make up my mind about this music. Bit wallpapery. Suppose I might get a bit more work done. Oh damn, I won't because I'm typing this...

Posted 15 years ago by planet_lizard    [ Reply ]
Not a song.  I like songs.  2
Posted 15 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
Yeah, yeah, it's politically correct-sounding, whatever. Give me something that will not put me to sleep.
Posted 15 years ago by Essbee    [ Reply ]
Dig!{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 15 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
 lovemydog wrote:

I believe that is calpping and drumming. I don't think African Pygmies have a lot of access to tap shoes.

 

Actually, that's not the problem — it's just that tap shoes don't make much sound on the jungle floor...
Posted 15 years ago by denmom    [ Reply ]
 Toke wrote:
Amazing tap dancers.....
 
I believe that is clapping and drumming. I don't think African Pygmies have a lot of access to tap shoes.

{#Rolleyes}


Posted 15 years ago by lovemydog    [ Reply ]
i really liked this cd when i first bought it about 12 years ago...but then...i realized that all the songs sound the same.... it's all very repetitive, within each track, and from track to track...

Posted 15 years ago by triskele    [ Reply ]
 fuh2 wrote:

Yodeling- "In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps as a method of communication between mountain peaks, later becoming part of the region's traditional music." 

I suppose pygmies yodel too as a means of communication in the deep rainforest.

Add a bell choir or a gamelan ensemble and we'll have yodels and ring-dings.

 


Posted 15 years ago by brighthue    [ Reply ]
 fuh2 wrote:

Yodeling- "In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps as a method of communication between mountain peaks, later becoming part of the region's traditional music." 

I suppose pygmies yodel too as a means of communication in the deep rainforest.



 
There isn't much deep rainforest left in Africa, it's all been cut down.

Posted 15 years ago by Null_Hypothesis    [ Reply ]

Yodeling- "In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps as a method of communication between mountain peaks, later becoming part of the region's traditional music." 

I suppose pygmies yodel too as a means of communication in the deep rainforest.



Posted 15 years ago by fuh2    [ Reply ]
jessibird wrote:
I much prefer the non-remixed recordings, with just the "yodelling" style vocals (which by way, are genuine traditional performances, nothing pseudo about them) and the traditional accompaniments, and the water drumming. None of this electric violin syrup poured on top. But then this isn't a station that plays a lot of African music, and I wouldn't expect to hear the unadulterated acoustic version from RP.

This is just okay.

wow that seems like a slap in RP's face after bring the music to ya, sure I would enjoy more african music but damn sure haven't heard any other station playin' it, think ya could be lil more apreciate, TY Bill I enjoyed it

Posted 15 years ago by stkman    [ Reply ]
the vocal and cricket is the only thing i like on this tune and even then one of those becomes a bit repetetive.4 only


Posted 15 years ago by betsyroks    [ Reply ]
 Ntropy wrote:


I was able to see them a few years ago, and found their live show to be quite excellent! I think a bit more energetic than the studio work. I loved it!
 

I saw them in a small bar in Seattle... Fabulous!!

Posted 16 years ago by redshel    [ Reply ]
I much prefer the non-remixed recordings, with just the "yodelling" style vocals (which by way, are genuine traditional performances, nothing pseudo about them) and the traditional accompaniments, and the water drumming. None of this electric violin syrup poured on top. But then this isn't a station that plays a lot of African music, and I wouldn't expect to hear the unadulterated acoustic version from RP.

This is just okay. 
Posted 16 years ago by jessibird    [ Reply ]
 Toke wrote:
Amazing tap dancers.....
 
That's tap dancing? Whaddaya know!

This song always makes me feel like going for a ride in a horse drawn carriage.

Posted 16 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
Amazing tap dancers.....
Posted 16 years ago by Toke    [ Reply ]
 Beaker wrote:
Oddly enough, their performances live, or at least the two or three times I've seen them now, aren't any where near as interesting as their recordings.

Perhaps that due to the outdoor stage — as I haven't seen them in a decent venue yet.

Good group.
 

I was able to see them a few years ago, and found their live show to be quite excellent! I think a bit more energetic than the studio work. I loved it!
Posted 16 years ago by Ntropy    [ Reply ]
Love eclectic sounds like this.  {#Meditate}
Posted 16 years ago by Kittee    [ Reply ]
This is insipid.
Posted 16 years ago by Excelsior    [ Reply ]
*yawn* first Marley, now this? Floyd now seems like a distant memory, sort of like the roman empire :(
Posted 16 years ago by jlind    [ Reply ]
Oh boy, it's Beyond Banal again.
Posted 16 years ago by Excelsior    [ Reply ]
definitely sounds like deep forest and i have no problem with that....love it!
Posted 16 years ago by K_Love    [ Reply ]
Zapmedia wrote:
Sounds very much like Deep Forest. Too much so.
Except that this came out 9 years before that song (see Spirit of the Forest Info vs Deep Forest Release Date) So maybe Deep Forest sounds a little too much like Baka Beyond.
Posted 16 years ago by vit    [ Reply ]
what about playing pacifique from deep forest?
Posted 16 years ago by marcucho    [ Reply ]
Sounds very much like Deep Forest. Too much so.
Posted 16 years ago by Zapmedia    [ Reply ]