Track Listing

1. Rewind Intro
2. Communication Break-Down
3. Deadly Media
4. Ninja Tune
5. Kids Can Dance
6. Vector
7. The Horn
8. Robopop
9. Auto
10. Machine Toy
11. Bass Invader

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94033 in Music
• Released on: 2000-08-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
Billed as the world's first ever completely AV album to be released on CD-ROM, Rewind marks a timely move for long-standing Ninja cronies Hexstatic--on from the realms of the visual and into the sonar yonder. The name Hexstatic is synonymous among circles traversing the pool of experiments in electronica with cut-and-paste, cutting-edge visual skulduggery--so fans will be pleased to hear that their musical constructs follow a similar vein. The interactive element to the ROM is where this comes into its own however--each track is enlivened by a unique and intricately arranged visual accompaniment. Without the light show stoners can have fun playing "guess that sample" (anything from Space Invaders to a Kung-Fu master to Jimmy Saville), whereas with it they will invariably find themselves lost to the grey area of living-room cyber-space. Aurally, stand-out tracks are the saxy "Horn", and funked-up "Kids Can Dance", which go to prove Hexstatic's musical mettle, but in listening terms, by track 11 you might feel like you've been relocated to a planet known only as bleep. --Ruby Shepheard

Customer Reviews

Bleeptastic
I ordered this album after hearing a couple of Hexstatic tracks on the Coldcut Solid Steel radio show, and I wasn't disappointed. Some of the tracks use samples from Speak'n'Spell, old arcade games, TV and movies. Deadly Media is a track made up using samples of human speech as instruments, which is pretty clever when you think about it. The second CD allows you to watch videos and remix the tracks yourself, presented via a "Battlezone" interface! It's worth the money just for that!

Lucky find
I discovered Hexstatic via the excellent Solid Steel collaboration album, and decided to investigate further. At the time, rewind was the only album they had released, and it's a belter.

This is true innovation, without being difficult to listen to. There really isn't a bad track on here, and there is the bonus of videos for many of the tracks on the accompanying CD-ROM. There is real genius at work here - taking samples from films, video games and everyday life and blending them into tunes that you just want to listen to again and again. Having grown up in the 70's and 80's, there are some very nostalgic elements here too.

Even my kids love tracks from this album - Ninja Tune being a particular favourite, even though they were only four and five years old when they first heard it.

If you're only going to be adventurous once this year, take the plunge with this album. It's well worth it.