"In Finite" Album Press
09/06/05
XLR8R "In Finite is a remarkable album of unsurpassed beauty."
Metro "..a work of epic space and freedom."
Q "..hypnotic and frequently thrilling"
BBC "..unlike countless others, Berridge's music still carries that ability to make you feel something."
The Milk Factory "In Finite highlights Berridge as one of the most talented musicians of his generation."
Remix Magazine (US) "Simply astonishing and uttlerly facinating in it's complexity." 5/5
The Wire "This is music to films that could never be made."
Jazzwise "These are indeed portraits of the infinite - ponoramic soundtracks for films yet to be made."
ireallylovemusic.co.uk "...you come to realise that Dan is being watched by Hollywood soundtrack executives, if not, there are indeed some severe injustices in the world of music."
Autumn Breaks EP 2004
“A master of his genre”
BBCi
“Dan Berridge is one of our generations finest leftfield musical talents. Believe people….believe”
International DJ
“Broadway Project is a premier league producer who is up there with the likes of RJD2, Boom Bip and Odd. Just wait for the new album to reinforce this.”
Angry Ape
The Vessel 2003
“Dan Berridge’s darkly magnificent sampledelica gets a new twist….. their opulent, romantic noise is as emotionally compelling as ever”.
BBC Collective 9/10
“From the word go it’ll blow you away. Dan Berridge is one of our generations finest leftfield musical talents. Believe people….believe”
IDJ 4/5
“The overall effect of The Vessel is dreamily intense an affirmation that sequenced or collaged music need not be stiff or utilitarian”.
The Independent 4/5
There’s a good chance this is what Hansel and Gretel had on their Walkmans when they got lost in the woods.
Time Out
Compassion 2001
"One of the best albums in the last 10 years. Essential.”
BBC
“Imagine Tom Waits duetting with Portishead and being produced by Boards of Canada… desolation, anger and redemption hasn’t sounded this alluring in a long time’ 5/5 Jockey Slut
‘A masterpiece of electronic melancholy, suffused with feverish creativity… a hallucinogenic jazz dub ache for the state of the world in which we are all utterly, utterly alone’ 8/10
NME
‘At its turbulent best, Compassion approaches the symphonic. Imagine Orb-like sonic layers, Erik Satie impressionism, Floydian guitar loops and Air-style melodies...’ 4/5
The Times
‘A strictly widescreen production, listening to Compassion is a cathartic experience, like emerging from a black hole into blazing sunshine. Simply stunning’ 5/5
Muzik
In Finite Press Release
Dan Berridge releases ‘In Finite’, the third album from his critically acclaimed BROADWAY PROJECT on Grand Central Records in June 2005.
An all-out composer, Berridge has scored numerous award winning short films and completed commissions for Channel 4 and the BBC. Inspired by the love of avant-garde jazz, hip hop breaks and the cinema aesthetic, the Broadway Project sound is naturally epic. Its soul penetrating grooves are gripped by a deep emotional charge and indeed, the project did initially only take form as something of a creative outlet for Dan’s recovery from ME/chronic fatigue syndrome.
A blessing in disguise perhaps, as within a two years Broadway Project had numerous EPs out on London’s Memphis Industries label, followed by two albums: ‘Compassion’ (“a masterpiece of electronic melancholy” - NME) and ‘The Vessel’ (“Dan Berridge is one of our generation’s finest leftfield musical talents” - I-DJ).
Fulfilling his ultimate aim of translating Broadway Project into a stage performance, Berridge retains the grand scale of his work while delivering a contemporary and unique performance: beats and piano led, with the free jazz aesthetic interwoven throughout. One man and his laptop, this is not. Accompaniment includes some of the UK’s best young jazz musicians, such as Perrier Award winning Matthew Bourne on piano and Riaan Vosloo on double bass, both of whom have taken time out from their own electric jazz outfit, the Electric Dr M, to play on ‘In Finite’.
Of ‘In Finite’ Dan says “It’s my third album, but at the same time my first. I’ve found a sound that I’ve been looking for…something that is of its time, yet timeless”.
Taking the heavy crack of cutting edge hip hop production techniques, he whips his earthy jazz and classical influences into an emotionally compelling frenzy. Ethereal melancholic sounds will seep into your blood, grab your inner core and pin you down whilst simultaneously evoking an overwhelming feeling of breaking free and escaping (a number of tracks were inspired by travels through Eastern Europe). Obsessive, emotive and clever - this is a labour of love like no other.
Prepare to be blown away.
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Released on June 6th 2005
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