artists both old and new. Mr. Bongo's 'Brazilian Beats' mission has been to present the enormous wealth and breadth of contemporary Brazilian music to a wider global audience. From humble beginnings in the basement of Daddy Kool's reggae shop on London's famous Berwick St 'Mr Bongo' was seen as the standard bearer of Latin music for Europe. This release features three documentaries and a host of promos and interviews. Documentaries: 1.Clude Do Balanco 2.'Street Angels' Project 3.Marcelo D2 Promos: 1.Paula Lima - Quero Ver Voce no Baile 2.Tejo Black Alien & Speed 3.(Fatboy Slim Remix) - Follow Me Follow Me 4.Banda Black Rio - Carrossel 5.Stereo Maracana - Freestyle Love 6.Ive Mendes - Natural High 7.Juan Pablo Torres - Rompe Cocorico 8.Hanny - Sex Dinero y Fantasia
Advantages: It just feels right Disadvantages: where is vol 2 ???
...The Viva Diablo Blanco compilation is a carefully selection of hyms of drum'n'bass / ambient tunes from the mid 90's. You'll be sure to rebember tracks such as Apollo 440's "Ain't Talking about dub" and Fat Boy Slim's "Song for Linda" and at the same time recall some less mainstream artists such as The Aloof and The Art of Noise and on top some very good remixes by the likes of the brazillian collective Filla Brazilia and others.
All in all this album does really capture the essence of the whole snowboarding sub-culture, so the snowboarder on the album's cover isn't just a fluke.
In a few words this compilation is bold, young and fast paced, but still a ambient album that you can play over and over....
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Advantages: Many different types of rock and fantstic artists - the best of 2006 and 2007 Disadvantages: Could have more hardrock artists in and and second CD hasn't as much good artists in
...A fantastic CD with lot's of different kinds of rock. The best bands of 2006 and 2007 put in one CD. Artists like Snow Patrol, Razorlight, The Fratellies, The Arctic Monkeys, Automatic, The Ordinary Boys, The Killers, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks and the list goes on. Has two CD's and has 40 tracks, 20 on each CD. Has new up coming artist such as Wolfmother. has many artists winners from the Brits: The Killers who won best national CD and best national band, The Arctic Monkeys won best British CD and best British band. The Fratellis won an award too and many more Brit award winning artists. A fantastic purchase well worth its money. A great buy. I recommend definitely to people anywhere between 8 and 100 if they enjoy that kind of music. It even has some live performing artists such as 'The Arctic Monkeys' on tour...
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Advantages: Relaxing story telling music with a bit of heart Disadvantages: Too boring
...OK album, with a nice mix of different artist most of which i have never hear of before. As you can probably tell I'm not usually into this kind of music but being someone always looking to expand my musical horizons, I thought i would give it a go but was not too impressed.
Most of the songs featured were not too impressive, many of which sounded very boring and generic for the genre.
Track 15, Green Fields of France - Furey & Davey Arthur was probably one of the most impressive tracks on the album; this song featured delicately sung lyrics and an impressive story which i think is based on world war 2. Some of the other tracks were almost up to this standard but were too boring and didn't catch my attention....
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somewhat helpful 15.06.2007
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