''Music by Cavelight'' is the first solo studio album by American hip hop producer

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. It was released on

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on March 23, 2004. It peaked at number 43 on the

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. It received generally favorable reviews from critics.

Release

''Music by Cavelight'' came about when

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, for whom Blockhead had already produced a breakbeat album, asked him to produce an album. After Mush Records stopped returning his phone calls, he and his manager sent the demos around other labels before

, having received a copy through

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, offered to release the album.

Critical reception

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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72, based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". John Bush of

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wrote, "These tracks are much smoother than the warped jams that fans of his hip-hop work know him for; most of the instrument sources on these tracks are not only recognizable, but hardly tampered with at all." Rollie Pemberton of ''

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'' stated that "All around, Blockhead's first foray into solo sound collage is far from bad, but it rarely steals the show the way his rapper-associated work tends to."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the original UK edition CD liner notes. *

– production, executive production * Damien Paris – guitar (2, 5, 10), bass guitar (9) * Omega One – turntables (2, 3, 10, 11) *

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– violin (11), recording, mixing, executive production * Voda – mastering * Gabe Hilfer – executive production * Maya Hayuk – photography, design

Charts

References

External links

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