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Travelling Through Music

Advantages: Expertedly produced, features diverse world music styles, wonderfully addictive
Disadvantages: Too short

...including this new offering "An Announcement To Answer". With Quantic, Holland is renowned for making use of diverse world music styles - Brazilian bossa nova, French jazz, African percussion, Western hip-hop, drum & bass... Using modern beats, heavy bass and funk tempos, he combines them effortlessly to create organic compositions, which urge you to relax, dance or just sit back and appreciate his skills. ...THE ALBUM... "An Announcement To Answer" ...
...and heavy beats. "An Announcement To Answer" features an amalgamation of traditional sounds of various countries. In 'Politik Society', African beats support Latin banjo's and trumpets. Similarly, the opening track 'Absence Heard Presence Felt' features Asian strings, as well as heavy hip-hop inspired bass. He incorporates the voices of rap artist Ohmega Watts, as well as the lead vocalist from acclaimed urban jazz band "The Rebirth", Noelle Scaggs. ...

king_goonie 22.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Announcement To Answer, An - Quantic

Quirky, electronic madness

Advantages: Brilliantly original, uplifting & energetic, as well as downbeat & soothing
Disadvantages: Some tracks very repetitive

...On Wax. "The 5th Exotic" is a mesmerising, dreamy compilation of tracks heavily infused with a retro ambience. Lazy jazz, thumping hip-hop beats and some energetic salsa rhythms all make an appearance within the album's tracks, making for a wonderful, addictive listening experience. THE TRACKS: "Introduction" A strange, quirky intro with a strange male voice encouraging us to "turn a machine on". It is a nice little touch Will has added here to ...
...compliments the album. "The 5th Exotic" A bouncy and extremely cool track, taking us straight into the essence of the album, never letting go. It has an infectious melody and catchy rhythm, with a jumpy synthesised electronic organ. It drifts into a Moby territory, with some epic synthesised strings and some sexy whispering vocals. One of the absolute best tracks on the album. "Snakes in The Grass" Echoing keyboard notes and a heavy bass open ...

king_goonie 16.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of 5th Exotic, The - Quantic

fantastic debut album

Advantages: broken heels, bad boys
Disadvantages: bury me. not bad at all just my least favourite song on here

this is a fantastic start of what i'm sure will be a life-long career in music for alexandra burke. her first singe "hallelujah" which was released just after she won the x factor features on here as a bonus track and her second, in my opinion phenominal single "bad boys" kicks this album off to a t! it's the sort of music that makes you want to get up and dance, or even to have a boogie to whilst doing the housework! My ratings of the songs Bad ...
...- a very powerful and moving ballad bury me: 3/5 broken heels: 5/5 dumb: 5/5 overcome: 4/5 gotta go: 5/5 you broke my heart: 4/5 nothing but the girl: 4/5 they don't know: 4/5 hallelujah: 5/5 overall this is not at all what i expected from alexandra! a mostly up-beat album but in places she does her ballads to show you what a fantastic talent she really is! ...

leanne641 21.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Overcome - Alexandra Burke

...Imagine What He'd Be Like If He Was Always With Us

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: One weak track

“Attention Deficit” was released in 2009 and came as the long-awaited debut album from the Washington, D.C. rapper Wale. It find that Alternative Hip Hop artist comign with a record that has him attempting to find some kind of way of introducing a D.C. sound in Hip Hop, with its regional Go-Go musical style being introduced through this, but has this as one of many main places to work from as he is known to work in the Hipster Rap field, and so relies ...
...to attempt to make heavy singles that will gain him attention. Known for his work with Mark Ronson, he features as a production contributor, with other notable beat offerings coming from the likes of Cool & Dre, Dave Sitek and The Neptunes. 1. “Triumph” (Intro) 2. “Mama Told Me” Off a pretty fly introductory piece, in which he introduces himself and gives quite a lot of different twists to show just how many layers there are to his music (including ...

XICripZ 19.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Attention Deficit - Wale

Non X Factor winners that achieve 2 number one singles!!

Advantages: Great mixture of songs, Great lyrics, Includes their 2 number one singles
Disadvantages: Quite girly and lovey dovey!

***ABOUT JLS*** JLS appeared on the X Factor last year and although they didn’t win they got a record contract with Epic records and have since released 2 singles which have both reached number one. Their first album was released a few weeks ago and is called ‘JLS’. The band features 4 male members which include Marvin, JB, Aston and Oritse. JLS are only the second non-winning X Factor contestants to achieve a number one single. ***THE ALBUM*** ...
...Again – This song was JLS first single and reached number 1 in the charts. This song has a strong beat to the music and I find the song quite catchy. The song talks about losing someone (I presume a girlfriend) and that you both should get back together. This song has a catchy chorus and I often find myself singing along to it when it comes on the radio. Everybody In Love – This is JLS most recent single and again it reached number 1 in the charts. ...

kiss_me2070 18.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of JLS - JLS