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High Rising

High Rising
Artist: Sounds From The Ground
Label: Waveform
Category: Music

Buy New: $16.98



Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 reviews
Sales Rank: 10400

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 6102
UPC: 789060610229
EAN: 0789060610229
ASIN: B000ICLRMU

Release Date: October 10, 2006
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Tracks:

  • White City (2:31)
  • Rotorblade (6:43)
  • Slate Grey (8:54)
  • Viper Style (7:50)
  • Beautiful Feeling featuring Taz (9:31)
  • Modo (7:30)
  • Palmprint featuring Gaudi (7:31)
  • Blink (6:39)
  • Speedbumps (6:32)
  • Allsorts (7:17) Special Bonus Track

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  • And Then the Clouds

Editorial Reviews:

Album Description
With well over a decade of sonic seasoning under their belts, SFTG serves up more fresh sounding and widely acclaimed ambient, dub, trip hop and chilled back electronic musical styles. This is their fourth title in the growing Waveform catalog, HIGH RISING - a reflective and mesmerizing future classic and yet another elevated effort - this time more laid back, with welcomed guest contributions from long time supporter Taz as well as fellow UK recording artitst, Gaudi. Move up to the heady, good time vibes of HIGH RISING. Listen for some exceptional focus tracks, including, 'Rotorblade,' 'Slate Grey,' 'Viper Style' and 'Beautiful Feeling' featuring smooth, sensuous vocals from Taz.


Customer Reviews:   Read 4 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars A Gentle Onslaught of Minimalistic Polyrythmic Sweetness   June 13, 2008
Gordon Meadows
1 out of 1 found this review helpful


If I ever get tied to the ground and a B52 bomber flies overhead and drops it's paylod of 100 megaton love bombs on my face this is the album I want to be listening to... and I hope the song Beautiful Feeling is playing when the first one hits me in the teeth because my smile is so large.

Thanks for reading




5 out of 5 stars lives up to the reviews   May 22, 2008
Brian K. Bearse (boston, ma)
If you're looking at this then I think you need to buy it. It's an excellent album, none of the tracks are similar to each other and they just get better and better. (hopefully this gives you a guage)-> Other albums that I think are amazing are...
Shpongle -Nothing Lasts But Nothing is Lost
BlueTech -Prima Materia
Younger Brother -*all*
Infected Mushroom -Viscious Delicious
Juno Reactor -Labyrinth
Pendulum -Hold Your Colour
Phutureprimitive -Sub Conscious
Squarepusher -Ultravisitor
Venetian Snares -My Downfall
Vibrasphere -Exploring the Tributaries



2 out of 5 stars Highly disappointed   April 3, 2008
B. McDonald (San Diego, CA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

After reading the other reviews of this CD, glowingly relating that every track is a winner and that the CD is one nearing perfection, I figured I couldn't go wrong. I mean, I own many CDs which I am happy to own only for a couple tracks. Perhaps I just didn't do my homework on this one. But again, people were saying "chillout" and "relaxing" about this, so I feel misled.

That's not to say it doesn't qualify as Chillout or as somewhat relaxing; however, I prefer some semblance of melody or at least melodic direction in my music (like Ulrich Schnauss); and if not, I want to hear some killer atmospheres or textures (like AmBeam). Neither are found here. You get the ubiqitous beats, but they are unusual in and of themselves. They don't really establish groove so much as just create rhythm. I find them quite uninspired. They don't draw ME in, that's all I can say. And with songs so long, they need to do that, frankly.

Melodies? Well, you might be able to grab one from the repetitious (lazily looped) bass line or from some other esoteric bit. Again, I realize this kind of music often uses looped bits to create texture (love the way Marconi Union does it), but this stuff just falls way short. Uninspired. That's the word that keeps coming to me when I listen to this music. It sounds very much like it's adhering to some expected formula.

As for the textures and supposed beauty, they can't hold a candle to Schnauss, Vangelis, Jon Hopkins, or any number of other artists. I don't mean to be too harsh on this music, but there needs to be a balanced opinion on this page, and maybe I'll save somebody else the disappointment I felt when receiving this CD. I had much, much higher hopes. Somebody described this as fantastic background music. I agree. Way, way back, it could work.



4 out of 5 stars SFTG for the ages   July 6, 2007
J. C. Weber
I have been a huge fan since their debut on Two AD. They continue to put out quality music time and time again. Cool grooves and deep beats to ease the stresses of the day.


5 out of 5 stars BEST EVER TO DATE   May 9, 2007
Randal J. Shepard (ROCKLIN,CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

HOW CAN THEY POSSIBLY OUT-DO THIS CD....IT SIMPLY CAN'T BE DONE!THIS MUSIC WILL TAKE YOU PLACES ONLY YOUR IMAGINATION CAN TRAVEL.I LISTEN TO THIS CD CONSTANTLY AND EACH AND EVERY TIME GET SOMETHING "DIFFERENT" FROM EACH AND EVERY TRACK....IT'S VERY OBVIOUS THEY DO WHAT THEY WANT WITHOUT PARAMETERS....KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT INNOVATIVE 'SOUNDS'FROM THE GROUND!I LOVE THIS BAND!THEY KNOW HOW TO TRANSCEND YOU EMOTIONALLY AND SPIRITUALLY! RANDAL

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