Bass Re-enforcement - Power Steppers

Advantages: Some good hits there
Disadvantages: It's an old album and may be difficult to find

...This album was released in 2000, just near the end of summer. It might be 5 years old but some of the hits still sound fresh. The album was released on cassette and CD but I listened to the various tracks on the internet. I'm slowly getting used to this modern technology! The music, as the title of the album suggests, is dance music and it covers "garage" as well as the "2 step" garage that emerged in the first half of this decade. The "2 step" refers to the arrangement of drums in the back, basically. As for the "garage" itself, I think it's to do with a style of music which originated in New York's "Paradise Garage". It has vocals, keyboards and sometimes strings and a hell of a lot of bass. Of course, with "two step" more irregular drums were added and we got the funny sounding (to me anyway) songs such as "Re-wind (Bo Selector... Read review

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Advantages: Good tunes- Rahzel great
Disadvantages: done before?

...Bristol deejay and producer Size's '97 debut New Forms was an aptly titled breakthrough in electronica with its hypercharged fusion of futuristic drum 'n' bass with bebop jazz. It was, and remains, untoppable. But his long-anticipated followup In the Mode comes as close as anything could. Returning to a dystopic urban-jungle landscape, Size and his backing quintet navigate a labyrinthine funhouse of smacking speed-freak beatboxes, disorienting vocal syncopation and brooding keyboard robotics familiar to fans. But compared to the impenetrable two-CD New Forms, In the Mode is accessible. More of these tracks qualify as actual songs, with lyrics, verses and choruses amid the skeletal squiggle 'n' slam. Two standouts: In Tune With the Sound, with human beatbox Rahzel, who weaves his magic so seamlessly with Size's you can't tell where... Read review

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Advantages: Features big names
Disadvantages: None

...Avenue - Who The Hell Are You 6. Fatbot Slim - Sunset 7. Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night 8. Architechs - Body Groove 9. Bomfunk Mc's - Freestyler 10. Robbie Williams - Rock DJ 11. Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This 12. Sonique - It Feels So Good 13. Moloko - The Time Is Now 14. Moby - Honey 15. Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper 16. Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby 17. Geri Halliwell - Bag It Up 18. Tom Jones - Sex Bomb 19. True Steppers - Out Of Your Mind 20. Melanie B - Tell Me 21. Billie Piper - Something Deeo Inside And Here is Disc Two 1. Storm - Time To Burn 2. Darude - Sandstrom 3. York - On The Beach 4. Planet Perfecto - Bullet in the Gun 2000 5. Delerium - Silence 6. ElementFour - Big Brother Theme Tune 7. Fragma - Toca's Miracle 8. Angelic - It's My Turn 9. Aurora - Ordinary World 10. Alice Deejay - The Lonely One 11. Melanie C... Read review

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