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- New album a nice surprise from Britney | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
- … Taane goes solo – New Zealand’s source for entertainment…
- The Life Celestial: A Lot of Work a Little Play Plenty of E-Mail
New album a nice surprise from Britney | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle – Oct 30, 2007
Britney Spears” boasts a matter-of-fact male voice over the synth-fueled arrangement. But since landing with a thud at the MTV Video Music Awards the song has given Spears her biggest hit since. It sold wildly on iTunes and the video — featuring a stripper pole and a bad wig — zipped past 4 million plays on YouTube… We’ll never know how much Spears’ heart or mind was in these songs. But scoot past Gimme More and something happens during the chain-link groove of second track Piece of Me. The record springs to electro-pop life with the endless swivel and swirl of club beats. They come courtesy of producers Danja (Nelly Furtado Justin Timberlake) and Bloodshy & Avant the team behind Spears’ standout hit Toxic. Blackout is the most consistently engaging record of Spears’ embattled career. The tightly wound impeccably produced tunes build on the promise of 2003′s In the Zone a step toward real musical maturity that was derailed by.
… Taane goes solo – New Zealand’s source for entertainment…
stuff.co.nz – Oct 30, 2007
It mixes thrilling tribal rhythms with a traditional Maori haka and electronic squelches. The result is what Timbaland would probably create if he spent six weeks on a marae. Taane laughs when his new sound is described as ‘tougher’ than that of Salmonella Dub. It’s dirtier it’s grimier and it’s a lot more challenging… “I push everything I do. I’m pushing things with this album too I’m pushing myself vocally and as a producer. ne of the more telling tracks is Music Has Saved Me a hard-hitting and deeply personal song with production from DJ P-Money that Taane wrote about his wayward teenage years. “Music has saved my life. If it wasn’t for music I’d be in a gang I’d be in prison I’d be dead. When I was young I was getting in a lot of trouble with the law. I left school at 14 I was getting into drugs and getting into gangs.
The Life Celestial: A Lot of Work a Little Play Plenty of E-Mail
New York Times – Oct 30, 2007
” Today we have e-mail weekly video conferences with our families and the opportunity to make telephone calls to anywhere in the world through an Internet protocol telephone! I estimate that I talk to my wife daily and my two children at least twice every week. It has made a big difference for me to be able to “keep up” with their activities problems and successes. I am also able to receive electronic files from home that include photographs videos and music. What’s the best part of walking in space? A. Being able to be a small part of such a huge assembly task as building the International Space Station is quite a thrill for me. And the views that I experienced while outside of the I.