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FunkEducation
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Ten years of Travelling Without Moving!
Happy Birthday Travelling Without Moving!!!
Ten Years!!!
Travelling Without Moving is the third album by Jamiroquai. Released in 1996, this album features the international hit single "Virtual Insanity". The album also has a more diverse sound than previous albums, with more instrumental tracks, and a greater electronic influence, evident in songs such as "Alright", which mixed new synthetic sounds with shades of acid-jazz. Around this time Jay Kay's love of sportscars reached a peak, as reflected by the Ferrari-esque logo adorning the album cover and engine noises on the title track. This led some to accuse him of selling out on the environmentalist message of his previous albums. The title track "Travelling without Moving" appropriately introduces a new high-octane sound which features strongly in later albums. This is also the last album with bassist Stuart Zender. Wikipedia
Sales
The global sales of Travelling Without Moving are estimated to about 7 million units sold (According to the Guinness World Record database), which make it the best selling funk album of all time. It is supposed that the large number of sold copies was partly influenced by the success of the Virtual Insanity music video, which won 4 Grammies.
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Amazon.com
Adding pop savvy to their soul-disco mix, Jamiroquai grabbed the attention of MTV and Top 40 radio and won a Grammy with this platinum-selling album, their third. It's a fine record, with warm keyboards, sweet strings, and irrepressible grooves grounding Jay Kay's sublime vocals and fueling the hits ("Virtual Insanity," "Cosmic Girl," the title track). That voice--elastic, jazzy--is the fire of the band, but immaculate guitar sounds, snappy backup vocals, and clever old-school soul samples (Eddie Harris on "Alright," Esther Phillips on "High Times") are the details that create perfection. Balancing the dance-ready, radio-friendly tracks are the ballads "Everyday" and "Spend a Lifetime," the reggae-styled "Drifting Along," and a couple of didjeridoo instrumentals. --Suzanne McElfresh
Barnes & Noble
With their second album, Travelling Without Moving, Jamiroquai confirm their place as one of the most distinctive ensembles in pop music. An innovative band that's also unabashedly derivative, this British bomb squad incorporates the stylings of such masters as Stevie Wonder, Peter Frampton, Herbie Hancock, and Jimmy Cliff into its own idiosyncratic grooves. Thus, this trippy, modern disc is a hodgepodge of everything cool from dance music's golden ages. Deee-Lite succeeded in a similar quest for a while, but Jamiroquai give themes of hedonism, love, drugs, and immortality a sonic substance that's as inspiring as Earth, Wind and Fire's strong and singular sound. In typical fashion, the hectic title track leaps and hustles, taking off from an intense Booker T. and the MG's-type groove. The "Sir Duke"-esque "Virtual Insanity," house-y "Cosmic Girl," and late-'70s-Curtis-Mayfield-inducing "Alright" are the obvious hits of the record, though the crew's eclectic sensibilities are showcased on the instrumental tracks "Didjerama" and "Digital Vibrations." Led by Jay Kay's fluid vocals, Jamiroquai triumph in bringing a live feel to an album that, both impressionistic and forward-looking, personifies the postmodern pastiche. Martine Bury
Editorial reviews
...TRAVELLING is essentially about the metaphysics of having a good time....Jamiroquai have a thousand musical tricks up their sleeves; edgy horns laced with jazz intricacies, energetic bass lines and disco rhythms...
The Source (02/01/1997)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...Tighter and more compact in its production that the epic funk arrangements of...THE RETURN OF THE SPACE COWBOY....no-one with ears can deny Jason Kay's musicality--he's an extraordinary singer, and proves it here...
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Personal comments:
For me this album is just an inspiration for everything! and i think it's an album most musicians must listen before they go to a studio! It's a jazzy album, full of funky good vibes and feelings, i really got this album in my heart, because i can't be two days without listening to it!
The best Jamiroquai lineup ever known! what else? the best tour, the best musicians, the best style, the best grooves! I really miss the quality of this album in the new (if i can call it like that) band lineup... So, Happy Birthday Travelling Without Moving! in ten years i'll be here again celebrating this again! but at that time this album will be more classic than it is now!
Sources:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54242
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_without_Moving
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai
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Supersonic1
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Location: Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 02:08 |
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This is Jamiroquai's magnum opus. Dynamite came close to matching it, but TWM remains a perfect album to me. I can't skip any of the tracks.
A great, great record. Even when I am old, my gums have no teeth and I'm needing blue pills to get it up, I will remember Travelling Without Moving.
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the_doesman
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 04:09 |
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| FunkEducation wrote: |
Barnes & Noble
With their second album, Travelling Without Moving, Jamiroquai confirm their place as one of the most distinctive ensembles in pop music |
Don't you love journalists/reviewers who don't do their homework 
thanks Ed for reminding us that we already have a decade of Travelling Without Moving - bet hey, what are experts for  |
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Sandriche
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 04:15 |
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THANKS ED!
already 10 years..amazing..   
for me it was the album i liked most at the beginning..it´s still one of my favourites...virtual insanity is just one of THE songs..not to mentione the video of it!
cosmic girl..i listened to it soooooo often...it´s just a cosmic song!
use the force..never listened to it a lot..until i have heard it live..since this i love the power of the song..i like the message, sometimes when i think ..i want to give up that words come up to my mind.."USE THE FORCE"..
the same with high times and especially travelling without moving...twm is an amazing song..i just love the bass line and the tension it itself..the middle part gives that "and now u are freeeeee" feeling..( i don´t know how to express it in another way ,hope u know what i mean"..
this album shows the different styles jamiroquai made..from jazz,funk tover reggea ..it has instrumental song on it..love song songs about real problems in this world...
it is just great it is ALRIGHT
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CosmicMouse
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 06:06 |
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| Supersonic1 wrote: |
A great, great record. Even when I am old, my gums have no teeth and I'm needing blue pills to get it up, I will remember Travelling Without Moving. |
...that was a sweet thought!
Wonderfull... I know what I will be listening today all the time
Mouse 
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Knjaz
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 06:41 |
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Re: Ten years of Travelling Without Moving!
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Sales
The global sales of Travelling Without Moving are estimated to about 7 million units sold (According to the Guinness World Record database), which make it the best selling funk album of all time. It is supposed that the large number of sold copies was partly influenced by the success of the Virtual Insanity music video, which won 4 Grammies.
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 I was the one who wrote that part on Wikipedia.
Anyway, happy B-Day to TWM. It is and stays my favorite Jamiroquai album. It's just so multi-flavored. A piece of gold, even though most people think that the whole album's tracklisting consists of Virtual Insanity.  Also, why are the people from AMG such bastards? They gave TWM only 4 stars. It deserves more.  |
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Maxud
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:01 |
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yeah happy birthday twm may things happened since the last 10 years...
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jamirokaki
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:55 |
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thanks for the info
this means i aslo have to celebrate my 10 years of being fan.
i remember when my brother came to home with this album on his hands, and put it on the hi-fi. i was 13-14 years old and i was on heavy/punk style mostly.....but i instantanelly felt in love with this album, i saw the artwork and tihnk to myslef...what is this? it is just great, i love it. cosmic girl amazed me, i never heard nothing like that and just couldn't stop listening to it...then the same happened with the rest of the songs...and the rest is history!
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__Janluka__
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 13:20 |
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| Sandriche wrote: |
| already 10 years..amazing.. |
..but really, Sandra.. "already"?.. but why don't tell us where you were 10 years ago?.. in 1996 you was 'ALREADY' listening Jamiroquai?..
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Gonza-Arg
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 16:21 |
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happy ten years to the best album ever recorded... |
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mr_moon
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 18:23 |
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Happy Birthday TWM!
I owe a lot to this record. It has been such a big part of life..............perhaps a soundtrack for me for 3 or 4 years.
I remember buying the cd single of Virtual Insanity. The first CD i had bought of JMQ. Okay i had the first 2 albums on copy but i soon changed that! |
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Saffy7
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 18:36 |
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A truly life-changing album...I owe it a great deal of thanks :
Happy Birthday "Travelling Without Moving"! Thank you for the last 10 years of listening pleasure!
Claire.x.
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dannyev
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 18:49 |
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This album changed my life for the better and i adore it!
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Samiroquai
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 18:52 |
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Wow, like Inaki I've got ten years under my belt now, then... I have to say that when I first bought the album (in early October '96, I think, at the age of 12) I didn't realise it had been so recently released (the vid for VI had been on TV all summer so I thought I'd been slow in tracking it down!). The album that opened up so many new possibilities to so many of us... happy birthday TWM!
Sam
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