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The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland Release Date: 1968 10 zz Running Time: 75:47 Label: MCA Jimi Hendrix's third and final album with the original Experience found him taking his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit. The result was not only one of the best rock albums of the era, but also Hendrix's original musical vision at its absolute apex. When revisionist rock critics refer to him as the maker of a generation's mightiest dope music, this is the album they're referring to. But Electric Ladyland is so much more than just background music for chemical intake. Kudos to engineer Eddie Kramer (who supervised the remastering of the original two-track stereo masters for this 1997 reissue on MCA) for taking Hendrix's visions of a soundscape behind his music and giving it all context, experimenting with odd mic techniques, echo, backward tape, flanging, and chorusing, all new techniques at the time, at least the way they're used here. What Hendrix sonically achieved on this record expanded the concept of what could be gotten out of a modern recording studio in much the same manner as Phil Spector had done a decade before with his Wall of Sound. As an album this influential (and as far as influencing a generation of players and beyond, this was his ultimate statement for many), the highlights speak for themselves: "Crosstown Traffic," his reinterpretation of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," "Burning of the Midnight Lamp," the spacy "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)," and "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)," a landmark in Hendrix's playing. With this double set (now on one compact disc), Hendrix once again pushed the concept album to new horizons. Cub Koda, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 ...And the Gods Made Love Hendrix 1:21 2 Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) Hendrix 2:12 3 Crosstown Traffic Hendrix 2:25 4 Voodoo Chile Hendrix 15:05 5 Little Miss Strange Redding 2:50 6 Long Hot Summer Night Hendrix 3:30 7 Come On (Let the Good Times Roll) King 4:10 8 Gypsy Eyes Hendrix 3:46 9 Burning of the Midnight Lamp Hendrix 3:44 10 Rainy Day, Dream Away Hendrix 3:43 11 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) Hendrix 13:46 12 Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away Hendrix 1:01 13 Still Raining, Still Dreaming Hendrix 4:24 14 House Burning Down Hendrix 4:35 15 All Along the Watchtower Dylan 4:01 16 Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Hendrix 5:14 Releases: Year Type Label 1968 MCA 1997 CD MCA 1991 CD Polydor CD Reprise CD Reprise 1990 CD Reprise 1997 CD Universal 2007 CD Universal 2007 CD Universal Island 1993 CS MCA 1997 CS MCA CS Reprise 1997 LP MCA 1968 LP Reprise

Member Of: The Jimi Hendrix Experience More >> Similar Artists: Jeff Beck Sly & the Family Stone Jimmy Page The Who Miles Davis More >>

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