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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

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

CCC: Crip Clux Clan. Crip Crip Crip, Cs Up...

Advantages: A few bangers
Disadvantages: Inconsistent

In 2001 the duo of Goldie Loc, Tray Deee and Snoop Dogg released their second album as The Eastsidaz. The Long Beach, California trio came to bring what would become their final album together, due in part to the fact that Snoop Dogg wished to move on to other projects and Tray Deee was sent to prison for 12 years soon after and so “Duces ‘n Trayz: The Old Fashioned Way” would mark the end of a time when a distinctive West Coast sound would have ...
...2. “I Luv It” They get things lively with a DJ Battlecat-produced two-stepper that gives it a distinctive late nineties-to-early ‘00s West coast sound that takes heavily from the sounds of G-Funk from earlier on during the former decade but has things updated to hit in with the new developments in what they are capable of delivering by this point. Kokane of Above The Law comes to assist on this one too for a banger of a jam, in addition to Snoop ...

XICripZ 04.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Duces 'n' Trayz... The Old Fashioned Way [PA] - Snoop Dogg & Tha Eastsidaz