Name: Duniya by Loop Guru
Brand: Loop Guru
SKU: 614027700968
Price: 9.9 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 2 (84 reviews)

ALBUM

Following the success of singles "Mrbet," "Paradigm Shuffle," and "Sus-san-tics," Loop Guru's beat maestro Jamuud and bassist/guitarist Salman Gita crafted this full-length debut of global-minded ambient techno for the North-South label. Dance music, by nature, has a precariously transient quality. As hard as Loop Guru tries on Duniya to achieve something eternal, spicing up fairly pedestrian rhythms with a potpourri of world music flavors is simply not enough. Replacing synthesizers that buzz, bleep, and jolt the dancefloor are the ethnic tones of sitars, kora, tabla, and gamelan instruments that drift in and out of the mix. Though this exotic array defines the album at its surface, closer attention reveals them to be calculated and inconsequential. This is dance music (techno, ambient, trance, take your pick) and should be judged as such. By those standards, Duniya falls short. The hip-hop breakbeats of "Jungle A" and "The Fine Line Between Passion and Fear" seem lazy and by design, while "Aphrodite's Shoe" dilutes the sound of Jamaican dub. With exotic samples in place, Loop Guru rides these rhythms as if on autopilot, occasionally teasing with a sonic payoff it fails the deliver. Eclipsing everything that precedes it with its staggering length, album closer "The Third Chamber (Pt. 4)" clocks in at over 20 minutes. There's very little activity amidst the song's tranquil waters as a sleepy pulse lulls the album to some indefinite conclusion. Like the music before it, it's the sound of a mystical, distant shore that never quite comes into focus. ~ Nathan Bush

1. Hymn

by Loop Guru

Primary Artist: Loop Guru; Main Performer
Performer: Jim Chase
Sussan Deyhim
Chip Carpenter
David Muddyman
Salman Gita
Jym Daly; Performer
Composer: David Muddyman
Salman Gita; Composer
Lyricist: Sussan Deyhim; Composer
Composer Lyricist: David Muddyman; Other
Music Publisher: Copyright Control; Other

2. Sussan 11

by Loop Guru

Primary Artist: Loop Guru; Main Performer
Performer: Richard Horowitz
Sussan Deyhim
David Muddyman
Salman Gita
The Pleasure Dome
Jym Daly; Performer
Composer: David Muddyman
Salman Gita; Composer
Lyricist: Sussan Deyhim; Composer
Composer Lyricist: David Muddyman; Other
Music Publisher: Qfm Publishing
Warner Chappell Music Publishing Ltd.; Other

3. Jungle A

by Loop Guru

Primary Artist: Loop Guru; Main Performer
Performer: Count Dubulah
Jim Chase
Chip Carpenter
David Muddyman
Salman Gita; Performer
Composer: David Muddyman; Composer
Composer Lyricist: David Muddyman; Other
Music Publisher: Copyright Control; Other

4. Through Cinemas

by Loop Guru

Primary Artist: Loop Guru; Main Performer
Performer: Sussan Deyhim
Chip Carpenter
David Muddyman
Salman Gita; Performer
Composer: David Muddyman
Salman Gita; Composer
Composer Lyricist: David Muddyman; Other
Music Publisher: Copyright Control; Other

5. Bangdad

by Loop Guru

Primary Artist: Loop Guru; Main Performer
Performer: Jim Chase
Chip Carpenter
David Muddyman
Salman Gita
Zahrema Di Starace; Performer
Composer: David Muddyman
Salman Gita
Zahrema Di Starace; Composer
Composer Lyricist: David Muddyman
Zahrema Di Starace; Other
Music Publisher: Copyright Control; Other

6. The Fine Line Between Passion and Fear

by Loop Guru

Primary Artist: Loop Guru; Main Performer
Performer: Count Dubulah
David Muddyman
Salman Gita; Performer
Composer: David Muddyman
Salman Gita; Composer
Composer Lyricist: David Muddyman; Other
Music Publisher: Copyright Control; Other

7. Senseless

by Loop Guru

Primary Artist: Loop Guru; Main Performer
Performer: Jim Chase
Chip Carpenter
David Muddyman
Salman Gita
Jym Daly; Performer
Composer: David Muddyman
Salman Gita; Composer
Composer Lyricist: David Muddyman; Other
Music Publisher: Copyright Control; Other