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live and love your life

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LIVE AND LOVE YOUR LIFE 04:44
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REASON WHY 03:57
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BROWN RICE 04:32
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LOOK AT THE STARS : NORAN RE-MIX 05:21
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LOST YOU 02:51
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I'M BACK YOU'RE RIGHT 03:32
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PARADISE NO2 04:07
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LET THE LIGHT COME IN 03:03
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COLD SWEAT 04:51
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FREE YOURSELF 03:08
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CAFFEINE 02:47
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SHINE 01:59
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THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT ALI BIN MOHAMMED OMAR AL MUSCATI, AND THE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER.

Atone have been producing and performing a myriad of eclectic electronic dub styles of music since the early 1990s, and have played to crowds at the Big Day Out, Vibes on a Summer's Day, World Party Festival @ Great Yarmouth (U.K.), All Funked Up, Rob's Party @ La Hacienda (Manchester), have supported Tack head, Stone Roses, Adrian Sherwood, Audio Active, ACR, the Happy Mondays, DJ Scanner, On-U Sound System, and remixed for Neneh Cherry. Atone are now celebrating the launch of their highly anticipated and long awaited new CD " LIVE & LOVE YOUR LIFE". Introducing 12-tracks of varied genres from the ethereal haunting piano played by Jes on "shine", the dark nealistic lyrics on "I'm back yr right", the retro sound of the 80s "brown rice" to the happy emo dub of "i think i lost you". There's a slice of life somewhere for everyone... take it easy.

ATONE CD REVIEW
Atone – Live And Love Your Life (Shebeen/Vitamin Records)
By Wayne Stronell 2010

The legacy of Ali Omar lives on in this long awaited new album. Live And Love Your Life pays homage to a Sydney producer who just did what came natural to him, creating diverse, refreshing, soul empowering music, shifting from style and genre with ease, injecting everything from lavish moments of dub, post rave club soul, deep vocal house, abstract drum’n’bass experiments, and downtempo world music collage.
The varying vocal incarnations of Ali Omar, from toasting, and soulful reggae influences, to the gruff ranting and mumbling he became renowned for, I wonder if Spaceape has ever heard Ali Omar’s style, are interspersed with vocals from Gina Mitchell, Jes, Andy Fitzgerald, to name a few. I’ve always thought Atone could have more exposure, Omar and Andy Fitzgerald creating crafted, modern dub experiments as good as Massive Attack, with a similar genre hopping vibe, intensity, but soul enhancing energy.
Highlights are always the ones that touch on a dub aesthetic, “Live And Love Your Life” cruises through a 6a.m. fog, evoking the spirit of Vangelis. “Reason Why” shows a newer direction, post rave stabs ride a funky dubstep rhythm, with the soulful vocals of Gina Mitchell. “Look At The Stars” hits the dubstep mark again, pounding rhythms, skittering percussion and rapid fire bass. “Let The Light Come In” brings the reggae, but piles on the breaks to take the track somewhere completely different. “Caffeine” revisits the rapid fire bass, layers hip hop beats and dubbed out synth lines.
For all those who lived through the heyday of Sydney party culture, and the rise of the festival, would fondly remember the vibe Ali Omar and Atone evoked, those sweaty clubs where he knew how to work the crowd, dark fields exposing the sonic possibilities of dance culture, and the 6 a.m. chill out sessions where his work played on many a soundtrack. A talented artist will always be missed, but his music lives on, and his spirit can still do its work through his music.
Wayne Stronell
Read more: blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=96843583&blogId=533356598#ixzz12IPcFboH

ATONE – Live And Love Your Life
2010 (Shebeen)
Waking up slowly
Atone’s chilled beats are extremely well-suited to your hungover Saturday morning breakfast in a café somewhere in the inner city. The title track has the croaky talk-singing vocals of someone who has had a hard night of it, like Rob B from the Stereo MCs, though it turns after that towards the dark neon of Vangelis’s Blade Runner Score. Elsewhere there are shades of Massive attack, especially in the echoing wash of I*m Back, You*re Right and the very Tricky-style mumbly vocals on Look At The Stars. On Reason Why the female singer’s words sound like they’ve been pulled apart and stitched back together, every syllable recorded and treated separately, which has an arresting effect. Could this be Auto-Tune used for good instead of evil? Atone go fully hip hop for Free Yourself, with guests rapping about smoking too much pot. After an often sedate and sometimes languidly blunted 10 tracks comes a number called Caffeine with rumbling thunder beats, bleeps and drums that are as energising as their namesake and enough to get you stumbling out of that café’s door and considering the day ahead.
JODY MACGREGOR http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/19279/181/

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released January 5, 2010

ARTWORK ANTSMIFF,
COMPILED ALI OMAR,
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALI OMAR,
MASTERED BY BEN FEGGANS @ SONAMAX,
RECORDED @ ATONEMENT STUDIOS SYDNEY AUSTRALIA.

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Atone have been producing and performing a myriad of eclectic electronic dub styles since the early 1990s, and have played to crowds at the Big Day Out, World Party Festival (U.K.), All Funked Up, Rob's Party @ La Hacienda (Manchester), have supported Tack head, Stone Roses, Adrian Sherwood, Audio Active, ACR, the Happy Mondays, DJ Scanner, On-U Sound System, and remixed for Neneh Cherry. Etc. ... more

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