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Not just your average Ibiza album

Advantages: Great for relaxing to. Not your average Ibiza album.
Disadvantages: Can be a bit too relaxing at times. Not to everyone's taste.

I'm not your typical Ibiza type. I want to get that straight before we start. Anyhow, the other day, I was sitting in front of the infernal box, watching some high-brow programme when an advert came on for this album. It seemed fairly laid back and didn't bring up too many images of drugged up pillocks on some Mediteranian island. As the cover notes go out of their way to explain, there are different sides to Ibiza, the not-so-chilled-out side, ...
...is definately worth paying attention to. The album is a two-CD set, CD1 being the more laid back of the two. It starts with the mellow sounds of Kinobe's "Slip into something more comfortable", and manages to avoid anything that I'd heard of until Massive Attack's "Teardrop" with it's pounding bass. A fair way apart from each other, but still quite different. CD1 carries on with more people I've not heard of, before revealing just how long this ...

Pritch 18.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Chilled Ibiza Gold - Various Artists

Christmas Rappin' (With Not Kurtis Blow)

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: One average tune

...you tend to connect with Christmas time. **Four Stars** 3.“Dana Dane Is Coming To Town” - Dana Dane Here we get a funky jam that I really can't see any rooms for complaints in as we find that Dana Dane comes in with some storytelling rhymes that seem to take on all that Slick Rick was known for (even though he didn't debut as a solo artist until the year after this). He comes out with flows which have him telling a rather straight-forward tale that ...
...making good use of past Christmas song samples to help him as he does his thing. **Five Stars** 7.“He's Santa Claus” - Disco 4 Starting off with a little “Jingle Bells” (as just about ever other on this album up to this point) we see that we get a track that soon changes its direction as the cold beats come into effect and the rappers in the crew come to do their thing by all giving each other a chance to lay down their own stuff on the mic(rophone) ...

XICripZ 05.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Christmas Rap - Various Artists

8? So What Happened The The Other 4?

Advantages: Bangers throughout
Disadvantages: Nothing specific

Their second album of 2001, “8 Days of Christmas” followed “Survivor” as the fourth album from the R&B trio Destiny's Child. Using the line-up that the group worked with from the point when they reached mainstream popularity (with Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams) it finds them bringing a Christmas-themed album containing mainly well-known festive tunes, as well as a couple of reworked ones and completely original songs. 1.“8 ...
...the album with the titular track to this release and the biggest single from the original version of the album (with a latter edition going on to include “Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer” a fresh re-make of “The 12 Days of Christmas” and fill it out with the types of things that they would actually want to have. It is a banger of a tune and the perfect way to start things off. **Five Stars** 2.“Winter Paradise” We find that the act are backed up by ...

XICripZ 04.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 8 Days Of Christmas - Destiny's Child

Are You In That Mood? What Do You Mean, No? Mariah, Tell 'Em!

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: One average track

Her only album of 1994, “Merry Christmas” was Mariah Carey's fourth album and a Christmas-themed one. As with all her albums up to this point, it finds her bringing a strong mix of Pop and R&B in order to come up with a sound that seems to bring together a wide-ranging audience. She brings both traditional carols and some original tunes too. 1.“Silent Night” She begins the thing with a song that you really couldn't see being missed off as she gets ...
...to do for her (the thing that made her stand far ahead of others in the game when she made her breakthrough in 1990). It's a great showcase of her talent, and a strong way to begin things to give you a good feel for the direction that will be taken with this album, showing that she will do things in the way that fans expect from her. **Five Stars** 2.“All I Want For Christmas Is You” This is a great song in that it somehow managed to stand up as ...

XICripZ 03.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Merry Christmas - Mariah Carey

The Rakim we all know n love is Back!!

Advantages: Every lyric gets you from Ra.
Disadvantages: Some of the beats dont do Ra any justice to his versatillity

Just finished listening to Seventh Seal and have to say i was some what excited to listen to a new album from Rakim whose music i love. In my opinion this album is pretty solid. It starts off with the intro 'how to emcee' average track nothing special, then we get into it with Walk These Streets i dont think he should of had Gucci on this but the beat is crazy and when Ra drops his verse you want to listen to him like you are listening to someone ...
...album has to be Holy Are You, the beat is probably the best on the album in my opinion, Rakim drops some real potent and thought provoking lyrics. The only tracks that i werent feelng were Psycho and Dedicated just didnt like that beats on them but Ra still rocks with the lyrics. Overall a definite album to get for anyhiphop fan, if you havent heard Rakim before this is the best chance to get an understanding of his rythmic flow with upto date ...

nabil1983 01.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Seventh Seal, The - Rakim