Gareth Bowen - Product Of the Environment (2003) [FLAC] [log cue]

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Artist: Various
Release: Product Of The Environment
Discogs: 107116
Released: 1999
Label: Palm Pictures
Catalog#: PALMCD 2029-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Style: Electronic, Trip Hop

Tracklisting:

01. Gareth Bowen - Roy Shaw (4:00)
02. Gareth Bowen - Bernie Lee (7:22)
03. Genaside II - Tony Guest (6:16)
04. Gareth Bowen - Jack Adams (5:55)
05. Gareth Bowen - Tony Lambrianou (6:00)
06. Gareth Bowen - Freddie Foreman (5:16)
07. Gareth Bowen - Dave Courtney (5:49)
08. Gareth Bowen - Joey Pyle (6:13)
09. Gareth Bowen - Charlie Richardson (6:22)
10. Mark Porter, Tony Quigley - Tommy Wisbey (4:02)
11. Gareth Bowen - 'Mad' Frankie Fraser (8:36)

Goosebumps guaranteed!
An instant classic: actual gangsters, real ex-convicts, quite a few professional killers among them, telling you "Crime does not pay" with haunting music producing an intense and appropriate counter point.
The individual songs bearing the names of the characters narrating their individual stories.
Gareth Bowden is related to studio owner and underworld character Jack Adams, and was able to get interviews with some of the more noteable South London criminals of the 50s and 60s and set these to trip hoppy soundscapes. Some of it is very effective - the track of the late Tony Lambrianou talking about the Kray Twins and the murder of Jack The Hat McVitie is particularly chilling, as is "Mad" Frankie Fraser's description of corporal punishment in British prisons in the post war years, all set to appropriate dark soundracks - think Pre Millenium Tension era Tricky.

Audio Info from Track 10 as a sample
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
File size : 22.3 MiB
Duration : 4mn 1s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 773 Kbps
Album : Product Of the Environment
Album/Performer : Gareth Bowen
Track name : Tommy Wisbey
Track name/Position : 10
Track name/Total : 11 / 11
Performer : Tricky
Composer : Mark Porter & Tony Quigley (The Baby Namb oos)
Genre : Electronica/Dance
Recorded date : 1999-09-27
Writing application : X Lossless Decoder 20141129

Audio
Duration : 4mn 1s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 773 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Replay gain : -5.73 dB
Replay gain peak : 0.971222
Stream size : 22.3 MiB (100%)
Writing library : libFLAC 1.3.1 (UTC 2014-11-25)