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Hed Kandi: The Mix 2009

Advantages: If you want a very generic mix CD this could be for you.
Disadvantages: Many tracks are either remixes of commerical hits, or at least 4 years old.

...been a fan of the Hed Kandi brand, and of funky house music I decided to reluctantly purchase 'The Mix 2009'. My reluctance came from reading the tracklisting on the back of the Album - Shakedown 'At Night', X-Press 2 'Lazy' Afro Medusa 'Pasilda' and others are all relatively old tracks. If the theme of this album had been similar to the Hed Kandi classics CD in 2006 it would be understandable - but this edition professed to be 'The Mix 2009'. On ...
...to the high standard that Hed Kandi used to employ, and are perhaps telling of the growing Ministry of Sound influence on the brand. From the first CD you'd garner the incorrect impression that 2008 was a disaster for house music that has forced Kandi to scrape the metaphorical barrell. CD 2 follows a similar pattern with Kelly Rowland (ex-Destiny's Child), Adele and a raft of older tunes interspliced with the occasional recent track. The mixing ...

MattDSmith 02.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hed Kandi - The Mix 2009 [Digipak] - Various Artists

Boogie 2 Nite

Advantages: Great Songs
Disadvantages: Can get broing

Introduction: Booty Luv is back with another great album "Boogie Tonight". The album was released in september 2007 , and the album went straight to the charts fitting in at number 11. The album was sold all over the United Kingdom with over 70,000 copies being sold!. On the album there is a feature that allows you to access a special website where you can register to watch a special video for the making of the Booty Luv song "Don't Mess With My ...
...House , Dance and R & B. The producer of the album is Seamus Haji , who also performs remixes of certain Booty Luv tracks such as the well known "Boogie Tonight". What Songs Are Featured On This Fantastic Album? Well there are many of my favourite Booty Luv songs featured on the CD and the songs include the chart breaking "Boogie Tonight" , the great single of "Shine" , another track which was released as a single in 2007 "Dont Mess With My Man" ...

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Review of Boogie 2Nite - Booty Luv

Rudolph The Funky-Soul Reindeer? It Gotsta Be Boosty, Baby

Advantages: The Funk
Disadvantages: Few songs sound 'Christmas'y'

...2006 and came as a Christmas album from Funk legend Bootsy Collins (known for his work as a bassist in The J.B.'s, Funkadelic, Parliamnet and Boosty Collins' Rubber Band). It finds him bringing his own P-Funk twist on a variety of Christmas hits in that style as well as Hip Hop and Soul as we get him producing and singing with guest appearances from Gary Shider, Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell and Snoop Dogg. 1.“N-Yo-City” Starting the album we see that ...
...**Four Stars** 2.“Merry Christmas Baby” Here we find that we get a track that brings the Funk out in a way that you really wouldn't have ben able to anticipate (even with the introductory cut) as we see that here we have synth joining some live instrumental bass work from his brother Catfish Collins, and Boosty himself makes his first apparent on the record by coming to deliver a fly hook and half-developed verses that take you back to the times ...

XICripZ 09.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Christmas Is 4 Ever - Bootsy Collins

The Eminem Show - by Eminem

Advantages: Great quality music, lots of songs to suit your mood
Disadvantages: Couple of poor songs, controversial if you're not into this music

...Movie World of Reviews. The Eminem Show is probably the only album I feel I know well enough to write about, so here goes. Rap artist Eminem has been around for over a decade now. He burst into the hiphop/rap scene and created massive controversy and faced ridicule for being a white rapper, fighting against all the black artists such a P. Diddy, D12, Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, just to name a few. He began his music life releasing The Slim Shady ...
...Slim Shady, another nickname. Eminem released The Eminem Show in 2002. It sold over a million copies very quickly, and was a bit more playful than his latest two albums (mentioned above). The Slim Shady/Marshall Mathers LPs were very serious, about guns, suicide, killing, how much he hates his mum and family and wants them dead (not nice..), and how he hated other artists. The Eminem Show's first released single was 'Without Me'. In the video of ...

Stephoohla 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Eminem Show, The (Parental Advisory) [PA] - Eminem

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