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Track Listing

1. Opening Credits
2. If I Survive - Julee Cruise, Hybrid
3. I Know
4. Beachcoma - Hybrid, Peter Shrubshall
5. Dreaming Your Dreams - Julee Cruise, Hybrid,
6. Snyper
7. Theme from Wide Angle - Hybrid, Lee Russell
8. Sinequanon - Hybrid, ,
9. Kill City [Edit]
10. Altitude [Edit]
11. Finished Symphony
12. Altitude [Red Square Reprise]
13. Kid 2000 [Edit]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104218 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-19
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Simply Putting It ...
Usually, I tend to write long reviews that people probably don't read and don't find useful. But there's nothing I can say about this CD other then ...

The absolute best electronic album ever made. If you like electric music, you will love this CD. Period. There's no going around it. Every song is godly. Every song.

A revolution
This album is a definition of synergy. It is a well orchestrated fusion of sound that stays true to the emotion and force of the music. Simply put, it is a revolution in sound. This is on my top-10 albums of all time.

Without doubt a classic
Hybrid, perhaps the finest breakbeat production team around, were supposed to smash into the U.S. market with their first album WIDE ANGLE in 2000. As can be seen from this listing it made it to Japan, but sadly due to distribution problems the album was delayed in the US and so much well-placed advertising went to waste. Happily, Hybrid succeeded in releasing the album, renaming it WIDER ANGLE because of the inclusion of a second disc chronicling the Hybrid live experience. If this album appeals to you, the two-disc set is very recommended.

Sometimes a reviewer has no choice but to repeat blurbs. On the slipcase Ed Potton of The Times/Metro calls WIDE ANGLE "one of the most moving pieces of electronic music ever." He's totally right. Hybrid began by using traditional breakbeat production but transformed it into something totally original and novel by bringing in strings, here provided by the Russian Federal Orchestra conducted by Sacha Pullman. The vibrant sonorities of something rarely hear in breakbeat add colour and cinematic grandeur to the album that brings it to greater heights than any electronica album I had heard before.

WIDE ANGLE from a production viewpoint is wonderfully consistent and not a single track fails to entertain. The high points of the album, however, are pure emotion. "If I Survive" is sweeping with its breaks and perfectly placed strings. "Theme from Wide Angle" is a non-stop electronic parade. Perhaps the most spiritual experience on WIDE ANGLE is "Finished Symphony." It will sound familiar to those who had heard Hybrid's "Symphony" on the East Coast disc of Sasha and John Digweed's NORTHERN EXPOSURE II mix, but this version is performed with a real orchestra and has combined the best of live recording and studio editing.

WIDE ANGLE is such an original and polished release that I would recommend it to any fan of electronic music. It's been over five years now since I encountered this album, and in the time since I've lost interest in most electronic music I was once passionate about, but WIDE ANGLE continues to impress me as much as it ever did.