Something Completely Different
25
DVD / 310 tracks / Over 24 Hours Running Time of music plus some video material
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(Excerpt from track(s) 'Lightning and Snow (Sayer 10) & Close Encounters of the Q Kind')

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The closest project to this I have ever seen before is Dave Barker's 'Archive' but that pales into insignificance compared to the huge collection we have here. What Something Completely Different (aka Jacob Boele) has done is include every recording he has made over the last 25 years and put them on one disc. That is 310 Tracks totalling over 24 hours of music!!! These recordings are all high quality mp3 (320 kbps) and can be played on a DVD player / PC or MAC and via these devices and Apple itunes transferred to an ipod or mp3 player. It will not play on a standard CD player. There is even some video material included as a bonus which I could get to play on my PC but not on the DVD player (though the DVD player did play the sound files perfectly). Please note this is a professionally produced 'silver' DVD not a home produced effort.

There is a vast range of styles of music on offer as would be expected of recordings over such a period of time. Quite a bit of the early material is piano or guitar based and all very pleasant, even whimsical, some of it is. There are styles throughout this disc that are a little like Vangelis, Jan Hammer, even Jarre. What all the music has in common though, whether the track is delicate or powerful, is a real feel for melody, it's the 'tune' that counts. My own favourite material comes from the mid nineties to the present day but there really is something for everyone here.

Hardly surprisingly on such a vast body of work I am not going to give a track-by-track breakdown. If I had time I would like to sit down and put together a few albums worth of material and if I did so I think I could compile five to six excellent ones. Quite gob smacking! (DL)

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