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Kosheen is back

Advantages: Great tracks, great lyrics,great band
Disadvantages: Not as good as the original album

Kosheen, theres something about there style which i am addicted to and i have to say they have done a fantastic job with this album. I had never heard of Kosheen since someone gave me there first album and that was just simply amazing and damaged is also a really good album however i would have to admit it was not as good as there original, but then again it is hard to top that album. Again the album contains a mixture of fast and slow tracks with ...

DireWolf247 12.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Damage - Kosheen

Catch Me If, You Can - An Album Worth Buying?

Advantages: 17 Tracks worth £9, Different Genres, Range of Artists featured
Disadvantages: The Album Cover needed a little improvement

...London born artist Bashy, then Catch Me, If You Can is the Album made for you. However if your not into UK Music at all, but just enjoy general Rap, Electro and other up-tempo genres, then this album is also for you! No matter what part of the planet your from, or even the part of the UK your from, Bashy's newest album is an album that should get the UK Music scene more recognition and respect not only from what rapper Bashy (real name Ashley Thomas) ...
...what the artist has done to actually create his music, promote his image and sound and also graft to get the golden album that his needed. Tracks from the album which feature a whole-load of guests, which include: N-Dubz, Wretch 32, Jamelia and many more, with the support of gigantic producers such as Attacca Pesante, Toddla T and Naughty Boy to help manage the album, what could go wrong? Weirdly enough it can't, its an album that you won't be skipping ...

badman302 04.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Catch Me If You Can (Parental Advisory) [PA] - Bashy

Who Says Cube Fell Off?

Advantages: Consistent quality
Disadvantages: One weak track

"Raw Footage" is the eighth solo album from one of the founding members of N.W.A, Ice Cube. Cube came into the game in the late eighties as part of the rise of Gangsta Rap movement, which was spawned from the exposure of Hip Hop over in LA, and since they had to relate it to their street life, the gangsta lifestyle became part of their music. With Ice-T, MC Ren and Dr. Dre, they managed to get this unique sound of the West Coast up, and it is now ...
...Since its peak in the mid-ninties, the West Coast scene has died down, so it could have been difficult for Cube to come up with something for the listeners of now. Despite the fact that he has made acting his main career path, he has continued to bring out new releases, but the last one, "Laugh Now, Cry Later" (which came out in 2006) sounded as if he had lost the flow which he had in his early days, since he took an extended break from the game, ...

XICripZ 22.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Raw Footage - Ice Cube

Naaah! Funk Beef!

Advantages: A couple of big tunes
Disadvantages: Inconsistent

Bringing what was their seventh album under this name, Funkadelic released their seventh album in 1975. The George Clinton-led Funk band (who also went under Parliament for their more Soul-based work) came with “Let’s Take It To The Stage” with a line-up that included Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell , Fuzzy Haskins and most of the other regulars. 1. “Good To Your Earhole” They get the album underway with something expectedly strong as you find that ...
...and knew exactly what they were capable of as an act and so they lead the way nicely with some lively Funk material that makes the most of all aspects of the band and their unity that makes for such impressive work (that was seen to lead the way for all others working in this genre at the time). **Five Stars** 2. “Better By The Pound” With this one you see that you get Boogie Mosson laying down a hard groove on the bass to take them in and take them ...

XICripZ 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Let's Take It To The Stage - Funkadelic

Jill, You Know Jill

Advantages: Bangers throughout
Disadvantages: Nothing specific

...makes it appeal to those who won’t really get themselves into anything with such a twist to it. **Five Stars** 15. “Watching Me” Sampling a little something from the Acid-Jazz pioneer Roy Ayers, you see that you get a straight killer tune here as with this one you see that she is backed up by some raw Hip Hop beats with some light synth grooves giving it melody before she gets back to the spoken word (which later develops into raps) to mix things ...
...can’t contain her music and will go off in whatever direction it takes her. **Five Stars** 16. “Brotha” Sampling some classic Jazz in a simple piano loop (borrowed from Allen Toussaint) and I felt that it was a perfect way to set things up as she shows just how well her material seems to fit in with more traditional music (even though Neo-Soul is so progressive in its ways). It is another that shows her working at an optimal level, up to a standard ...

XICripZ 05.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Who Is Jill Scott (Words And Sounds Vol.1) - Jill Scott