Emanation From Below - Deivos

Advantages: Over 30 songs
Disadvantages: Two hours to listen to both cd's??pants point i know.

...When I got this cd I was unsure of what I was actually going to be listening. Although I love their last song Hey Ya and Roses made me actually buy this , I still hesitated whether or not buy the cd. The Love Below cd is the one which I prefere. It contains both Hey Ya and Roses and also some brilliant songs such as the catching yet chilled Happy Valentines Day and the Outkast instrumental version of My Favourite Things. If you love Hey Ya and Roses the love below will deffinatly impress you. The Speakerboxx cd is far more Drum n Bass which if you like that type of music, will definatly suit you. This cd wasn't unlistenable but if Outkasts only released the Love Below cd I would not be that bothered. Overall I great buy if you like Outkast. A range of music taste from hard core Drum n Bass to the instrumental and rn'b.... Read review

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Advantages: Great fun music. Sunshine on a rainy day...
Disadvantages: Watch out if you have a dodgy back!

...This is another Hi-Fi demo favourite of mine. The music is perhaps best defined as Roots Reggae with Ska and Rocksteady influences. Although Ranglin is such a stalwart of all those and more musical styles that he is responsible for his own influences, if you get my drift! I could even use the word 'Jazz' without too much fear of reprisals from the cogniscenti! Anyway, I'm no expert on any of those styles so don't read too much into my categorizations. I hate to pigeonhole music. So lets just call it upbeat, foottapping music from the soul, for the soul (but not soul music, per se). There I go again. Ranglin was born in Jamaica in 1932. I was lucky enough to see him live last year and all I can say is he does not look his age and is still an awe inspiring guitar player. Ranglin's best known recording is probably the worldwide... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliantly inventive: electronica at it's most exciting and intelligent
Disadvantages: Too few people will ever hear it

...below the surface of Budd's piano, the sort of sound that fills spaces and plants within the listener's mind a sense of awe and wonder. Budd fades out as the spiralling drones build and layer atop another. Bernocchi like Budd is pulling us in. But he's never lazy; never anything less than canny he introduces a staccato vocal sample to change the pace followed by low frequency beats that throb out from the speakers. Sounds echo in the distance as the long, throbbing beats bring a pause. Budd again enters, his precise yet abstract piano sliding beneath Bernocchi's spiralling stereo percussion that layers atop the drones and multiples in quiet textures of sound. Though an odd mix, Bernocchi's tabla influences percussion, his slow low frequency beats, his slippery drones match Budd's playing: they manage to complement the other... Read review

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