--- product_id: 59727835 title: "Master View" price: "€ 29.61" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/59727835-master-view store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Master View **Price:** € 29.61 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Master View - **How much does it cost?** € 29.61 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/59727835-master-view) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description AV. Sounds like something you stick in a drip. Makes you think of government funded outreach events or the foyer of a trendy gallery. Somebody had to take this audiovisual thing out of the art house and into the mad house. And by heaven, it had to be Hexstatic. ‘AVIN’ IT!! Renowned duo Hexstatic have toured every dusty corner of planet earth presenting ever more demented assualts on the limits of good AV taste. They have done horror specials for Halloween, they have done comedy specials for, erm, the Big Chill. They have made groups of saucer eyed ravers don 3D specs and flinch from their mighty rhythms. They have done rather marvellous bootlegs that have pictures, too. They’ve done it all, basically. Everywhere. So when they began work on their second album, they decided that there was no way on earth ("No way!" they cried) that the record wouldn’t also be issued as a plush dvd of, well, crazy AV shit, brother. So they gathered themselves and a few firm friends and created "Master View" (named for those seventies sort of slide show thingies – ah, look at the cover whydoncha?). And it delivers just the kind of thrills ‘n’ spills you’d hope for: vintage video game porn for the over thirties, cartoon ninjas killing dogs, sixties future psych, giant teddy bears, birds that sing along to the tune, bloco shenanigans, rapper Juice Aleem spitting out the Beatles, dancing gadget catalogues, pretty coloured circles, you bloody name it. And then it does it all again in 3D! And that, my friend, is the shit. And in addition, the music is every bit the equal of its pictured parts (as is evidenced by listening to it on the simultaneously-released cd instead). A loose mash up of classic electro, trademarked Ninja funk, pilferings from the pair’s global outreach programme, sneaky samples and enough good humour to leave you sweetly oblivious when yer mam catches you dancing round the living room in just your pants and some 3D specs. Oh. No. That was just me. Master View is Hexstatic 's latest offering. As the title suggests, this is about sight as well as sound – videos to all the tracks are included on a DVD. What's more, the DVD and the audio CD come in the same package, so you don't have to fork out for both formats. For this alone, Ninja Tune should be applauded. However, there's more to recommend this than mere value for money. Musically, Master View is 11 tracks of the kind of quality cut-and-paste, largely instrumental hip-hop you'd expect from Hexstatic (and, indeed, most Ninja Tune artists). It's unlikely to win any new converts, but if that's your bag, the music's top notch. But stick the DVD on and you're in for a real treat. A mixture of computer animations and cut-and-paste videos awaits you, some of which can be viewed in 3D with the glasses supplied and all of which are great, highlights including the retro video-game montage of "Extra Life", the singing parrots on "Perfect Bird" and the martial-arts fighters flying out of the screen at you in "Salvador". Different, and a real success. --Marc Bloomfield "A display of musical imagination which staggers with or without the aid of complimentary glasses." -- Q "Hexstatic flex their audio-visual mash-up muscles impressively.. brilliant." -- IDJ "Inventive beats, breaks and arcade game funk complimented by wild videos. This innovative album pushes things forward sonically and visually." -- DJ, "One of the most ambitious album projects of recent times." -- Knowledge "Trumpeting oodles of looney leftfield tomfoolery in the best Ninja tradition Inspired." -- The List Review: Five Stars - Perfect Review: Good Sound Quality, A musical throwback capable of punching and shocking - This is a good quality recording yet seems and feels old. It is almost “boom and bleep” but it was recorded in 2004. It feels like the last musical dinosaur from the early age of techno. I find this recording intriguing as I am unsure what it is meant to be? The sound track to a 1950’s sc-fi B B-movie perhaps? It seems and feels very innocent and unsophisticated yet there are shades and hints of drum and bass. It sounds like a musical missing link. Worth getting if you are interested in the evolution of modern music. I have not set out to write reviews of the music content as “beauty is in the ears of the listener”. These reviews are about the quality (or not) of the recorded sound. To read about how the reviews are done please see my profile. • Clarity – Very clear, sharp with no muddiness • Channel separation – Very good • Channel balance – Very good, dynamic channel mix, booms and alternates • Sound Stage – Deep, broad and wide. Very detailed • Distortion – Non Audible • Compression – Non Audible • Atmosphere – Very good but not in a light, airy, fairy way. Slightly brooding and menacing. Punches and beats • Bass – low frequencies – Very deep and rich, bass guitars and drums are excellent. Very clear and detailed, driving, punching, insistent • Treble – high frequencies – Crystal clear, detail is clearly audible • Vocals – Detailed, good As a general rule of thumb recordings from the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s are nearly always better on the original vinyl. Remasters often fail to please as it’s just not possible to make a silk purse from a sows ear, i.e. the original recording lacks the necessary detail to be processed digitally and show an audible improvement. Indeed such processing can make the sound worse. Modern recordings which have been processed digitally from start to finish can be as good as vinyl. CD’s are often unfairly criticised for being poor quality. This is not the case, it is the original recording or the process which is to blame. Modern “remasters” can both enhance and degrade a recording. The statement GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) is the limiting factor. Ignore this at your cost. ## Images ![Master View - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zkhR8FMHL.jpg) ![Master View - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61CSTlKzcOL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by J***C on 28 September 2017* Perfect ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good Sound Quality, A musical throwback capable of punching and shocking *by I***O on 11 February 2020* This is a good quality recording yet seems and feels old. It is almost “boom and bleep” but it was recorded in 2004. It feels like the last musical dinosaur from the early age of techno. I find this recording intriguing as I am unsure what it is meant to be? The sound track to a 1950’s sc-fi B B-movie perhaps? It seems and feels very innocent and unsophisticated yet there are shades and hints of drum and bass. It sounds like a musical missing link. Worth getting if you are interested in the evolution of modern music. I have not set out to write reviews of the music content as “beauty is in the ears of the listener”. These reviews are about the quality (or not) of the recorded sound. To read about how the reviews are done please see my profile. • Clarity – Very clear, sharp with no muddiness • Channel separation – Very good • Channel balance – Very good, dynamic channel mix, booms and alternates • Sound Stage – Deep, broad and wide. Very detailed • Distortion – Non Audible • Compression – Non Audible • Atmosphere – Very good but not in a light, airy, fairy way. Slightly brooding and menacing. Punches and beats • Bass – low frequencies – Very deep and rich, bass guitars and drums are excellent. Very clear and detailed, driving, punching, insistent • Treble – high frequencies – Crystal clear, detail is clearly audible • Vocals – Detailed, good As a general rule of thumb recordings from the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s are nearly always better on the original vinyl. Remasters often fail to please as it’s just not possible to make a silk purse from a sows ear, i.e. the original recording lacks the necessary detail to be processed digitally and show an audible improvement. Indeed such processing can make the sound worse. Modern recordings which have been processed digitally from start to finish can be as good as vinyl. CD’s are often unfairly criticised for being poor quality. This is not the case, it is the original recording or the process which is to blame. Modern “remasters” can both enhance and degrade a recording. The statement GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) is the limiting factor. Ignore this at your cost. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Top of the Ninjas *by H***T on 13 October 2010* The 1 star review here is so wide of the mark it's nuts. One thing this isn't is bland whatever other criticisms you can level at it. It's in fact a top example of breakbeat tunage mixed with a couple of dowmptempo songs. I have around 70 Ninja Tune albums and this is definitely among the best 5. It's also a definite improvement on Rewind and way better than Robots. If the likes of Fatboy Slim's first two albums, early Chemical Bros etc appeal to you I reckon you might like this. If not, you probably won't. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/59727835-master-view](https://www.desertcart.at/products/59727835-master-view) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-06-01*