Lamb, a contemporary of Massive Attack in the mid-late 90’s UK triphop & drum n’ bass scene, produced several albums of haunting, edgy electronic songs, the best of which are collected in DJ Finny’s awesome “This Is Lamb” mix. Although getting their start in Manchester, Lamb are more commonly associated with the Bristol-based trip hop sound that was popular during the nineties. Aside from trip hop, their musical style is a distinctive mixture of jazz, dub, breaks and drum and bass, with a strong vocal element and, in their later works especially, some acoustic influences.
At nearly three hours, this mix captures the best work of Lamb, mixed smoothly and unobtrusively. In Finny’s words:
After a very long drive back from an airport, my cd changer came up with Lamb’s first self-titled albumn, and i thought to myself “has anyone done a mix of Lamb’s stuff?” well, i didnt actually look to see if anyone actually did or not, i went straight to planning 🙂 And here is the final Result.
This is a journey through all 4 of their albumns, this 3 hour mix starts with their very laid back ~70bpm tracks, and gradually builds to their trip hop and ambient DnB ~150bpm tracks, and if you haven’t heard of Lamb before, this music is perfect to shag a lass to.
I purposely put “Arranged” as opposed to “Mixed” because i made a physical effort not to overlap the tracks too much, yet make the transitions as smooth as possible, because i wanted everyone to hear the very best of this duo.
Listen Now:
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2 hours 52 minutes /// 256mb /// 192kbps .mp3
Track list after the jump…This is Lamb – Arranged by DJ Finny
0:00:00 | Zero // Lamb
0:04:35 | Written // What Sound
0:08:23 | Stronger // Between Darkness and Wonder
0:11:01 | TransFattyAcid // Lamb
0:18:06 | Wonder // Lamb
0:22:48 | I Cry // What Sound
0:27:36 | Five // Fear of Fours
0:32:46 | Darkness // Between Darkness and Wonder
0:36:18 | Soft Mistake // Fear of Fours
0:38:52 | Lullaby // Fear of Fours
0:41:11 | Here // Fear of Fours
0:44:04 | Heaven // What Sound
0:48:26 | Gabriel // What Sound
0:52:11 | Learn // Between Darkness and Wonder
0:53:58 | Gorecki // Lamb
0:59:24 | Alien // Fear of Fours
1:02:34 | Fly // Fear of Fours
1:07:41 | What Sound // What Sound
1:11:15 | Please // Between Darkness and Wonder
1:14:43 | Bonfire // Fear of Fours
1:18:36 | Gold // Lamb
1:23:53 | Less than Two // Fear of Fours
1:24:39 | Angelica // Between Darkness and Wonder
1:27:40 | Scratch Bass // What Sound
1:31:51 | Hearts and Flowers // Between Darkness and Wonder
1:36:26 | Sweet // What Sound
1:39:51 | Cotton Wool // Lamb
1:44:23 | Lusty // Lamb
1:48:02 | Sweetheart // What Sound
1:51:39 | Closer // Lamb
1:55:16 | Softly // Fear of Fours
1:58:50 | Open Up // Between Darkness and Wonder
2:03:14 | Small // What Sound
2:07:28 | Sun // Between Darkness and Wonder
2:10:08 | ‘Till the Clouds Clear // Between Darkness and Wonder
2:13:54 | One // What Sound
2:17:42 | Ear Parcel // Fear of Fours
2:24:46 | Merge // Lamb
2:29:42 | Just Is // What Sound
2:33:21 | God Bless // Lamb
2:38:42 | All in Your Hands // Fear of Fours
2:42:48 | Little Things // Fear of Fours
2:45:40 | Sugar 5 // Between Darkness and Wonder
2:49:11 | B Line // Fear of Fours