Morcheeba - Parts of Process (18 tracks) +Album Reviews

Great Compilation

S. D. Gates | Oklahoma City, OK United States | 02/18/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"After downloading the music (legally, using the new subscription-based Napster), I knew I had to buy this music. But not this album. I hunted down the version mentioned by another reviewer that includes a DVD. It appears on Amazon as "Parts of the Process (CD & DVD) [LIMITED EDITION]." It costs more, but it'll be cool to see the group performing live.I love the electronica genre because of the near-universal presence of ethereal female vocals.... and this group is the epitome of that!!!Great job Morcheeba! Keep it coming!!!"

Cool cool cool!

Pineapple Head | Bombay, India | 03/25/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"In the few years that Morcheeba has been around, the band has been able to carve a niche among club-hoppers and easy music listeners likewise, with its blend of trip-hop, infectious beats and amazing vocals. This CD is a compilation of some of their biggest hits, including 'Rome wasn't built in a day' and 'Be yourself'.

My personal favourites include 'Undress me now', 'The sea' and 'What New York couples fight about'. I would have given this compilation 5 stars, but it misses 2 great tracks in the oriental-sounding 'A well deserved break' (from the album 'Fragments of Freedom) and the phenomenal 'Three orange whips' (from the album 'Blindfold'). All said and done, this is a GREAT compilation and a perfect introduction to the music of Morcheeba. BUY IT IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, and you won't be disappointed!!!"

Stimulating & Relaxing at the same time , jazzy/acoustic...

S. Layton | 02/13/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This cd or any music of morcheeba's is amazing. You can listen to it at any time, any mood...it fits right in. The singer has a sultry jazzy voice and the music is slower paced but the songs that are more upbeat are very stimulating and still mood inspiring. This is by far the best new band that I've been introduced to in years!"

UK Trip Hop Trio Provides a Stylish Chill-Out Sound and a Po

Ed Uyeshima | San Francisco, CA USA | 08/17/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Lit up by Skye Edwards' soulfully effervescent vocals and its infectious, sing-along chorus, Morcheeba's Rome Wasn't Built in a Day is one of the most damnably catchy songs I have heard in this millennium, and the accompanying video - which you can currently see on YouTube - is a cheerful, montage-driven match to its romantic uplift. Discovering this UK band well after Edwards' departure, I was delighted to find this best-of compilation recently. Organized by the Godfrey brothers - Ross on guitar and keyboards and Paul on "beats and scratches" - the band was one of the leaders of the "trip hop" movement in the mid-90's, a down-tempo electronic music sound borne out of the club scene in Bristol. This disc covers Morcheeba's first eight years up until 2003 right before Edwards left, a big loss for the brothers since her voice has a distinctive, lustrous world-music quality that would be hard to match for style.

Fortunately, we have these eighteen tracks with Edwards for posterity. Most have a loping ambient quality like the trance-laden "The Sea", the hypnotic "Blindfold", the samba-sized "Let Me See" and the twangy "Part of the Process", all from the band's best-selling breakthrough 1998 disc, Big Calm. You can hear a mellow, radio-friendly pop sound pervading the later tracks like "Otherwise", "Undress Me Now" and "Way Beyond" from 2002's Charango. Rapper Big Daddy Kane joins in on the robotically hip-hop "What's Your Name?", and Kurt Wagner of the alternative country band Lambchop duets with Edwards on the hallucinogenic trance, "What New York Couples Fight About". My favorite tracks are from 2002's Fragments of Freedom - the beat-happy "Be Yourself" and of course, "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day". Especially with Edwards at the forefront, Morcheeba is a band worth discovering or rediscovering on this side of the Atlantic if you have an affinity for chill-out music."

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