Rod Stewart -Human Cassette 2001

Russian pressedmusic cassette. Clear Best Music cassette with silver text.

The Russiancassette market is an interesting one with lots of different labelsand tons of unique best of compilation tapes where some releasescontains track selections taken from quality sources while othersmay contain poor quality recordings mastered from sound files ortaken from jumping cds. Several Russian labels were also makingmaterial for the Ukrainian market. With such a massive country andmaterial made for several former USRR countries its reallysomething to dig into for a cassette collector. Invisible Halahup /Halahup is one of ex-USRRs biggest labels. They gained bigpopularity because they started to make releases with nicelydesigned booklets, printed on high quality paper, often multi-page,containing artists biographies and rare photos. The company namecan be seen with several name variations on releases like: Holahup,Hulahup, Halahup Studio, Halahup Records, Halahup Records, Inc.,Halahup Records Ltd. or as ??? ??????? (means Halahup Ltd inRussian). Hula-Up, Halahup Music Media, Halahup Music Entertainment(Germany) GmbH, Halahup Music. Halahup had an office at theVozrozhdeniya 20-A in St. Petersburg but they also had a contactphone number to Moscow and some say they were a sub label toMisteriya Zvuka (Mystery Of Sound) Records at 6th NovopodmoskovnyAlley in Moscow. Halahup released both cassettes and later cds sothere should be several thousand of releases once made for the USRRand Ukrainian market

Throughout hiscareer, Rod Stewart has been remarkably skillful at adoptingcurrent musical trends, whether it was disco, new wave, adultcontemporary, or even Brit-pop. Still, his records started to slipoff the radar screen toward the end of the ’90s, so he parted wayswith Warner Bros. and signed to Atlantic, where he released Humanin early 2001. Again, he tried to change with the times, which,theoretically, may have been a wise move, since his thoroughlycredible trad rock When We Were the New Boys was largely ignored.Since he tried contemporary rock, it made sense that the pendulumwould swing back and he would take a stab at contemporary soul.Seems logical, but as the neo-TLC title track starts, it’s hard notto think what the hell happened? Cher’s neo-electro move on Believemade some sense, since she had always indulged in trashy moderndance, but Stewart never played that game — even when at the heightof superstardom, he never pretended to be hip, which is what he’strying to do here. Surrounded by skittering drum machines and EnVogue-styled harmonies, crooning Babyface-styled ballads, it soundslike he’s auditioning for the La Face roster. Rarely does Human tryto be outright modern dance music, instead blatantly stealing theseproduction techniques for a set of mid-tempo tunes and ballads thatare firmly adult contemporary territory in content — they’re justdelivered as if they had a chance of sitting at the top of thecharts. It comes out as the sound of an artist painfully trying tosound modern but — by trying to sound fresh — sounding older thanhe ever has. Human are a Stewart album that you can miss.

Track list:
1. Human
2. Smitten
3. Don’t Come Around Here
4. Soul On Soul
5. Loveless
6. If I Had You
7. Charlie Parker Loves Me
8. It Was Love That We Needed
9. To Be With You
10. Run Back Into Your Arms
11. I Can’t Deny It

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Conditioncassette: ex

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