La Perla - Black Label - Various Artists

Advantages: Zakk Wyldes Brutal 4-some at its greatest
Disadvantages: Overall audio mix may be too brutal for some speakers

...into each album, sonicbrew being no exception. begining with a soulful piano intro, and throwing the listener into a powerful and heartfelt 4 minutes of trademark black label crushing, and destroying riffs, and after a somewhat impressive solo, zakk leaves you on the piano to fade. 6. Mother Mary BLS putting the bass to use again with turbo distortion for an intro, and to lead the drums on every verse making each chorus that much more crushing with each chorus. this song really proves where zakk gets his vocal stylings, pure home grown southern rock n f***in' roll 7. Beneath The Tree ok, the last 20 minutes has been pretty heavy so time for a calm, slow track, but with the band wielding the motto "Strength, determination, mercilessness, forever" that would be getting off too easily, and 2:30, the band come round again n smack you in... Read review

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Advantages: Some good remixes and the price
Disadvantages: Not many, some fillers but i suppose you get that with every album

..., mainly for its heavy base line Thats Crazy - Black Rob, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg & G Dep. The production doesnt interest you on this one and its a shame because you turn off before Missy and Snoop get involved Woke Up In The Morning - Carl Thomas & Notorious BIG. Not a bad track but its missing something, i dont know what it is. It just plods along really, not really popular with Bad Boy fans You Gets No Love - G Dep & Faith Evans. I was waiting to see a Faith Evans track and its the last one, not too much different from her album version just a rap added really but it didnt need much tampering so a good one to finish on Probably best for fans of Diddy & the whole bad boy family thing but for the price it is, its definately worth it... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant electronic music
Disadvantages: quite strange

...Rephlexions (various artists) is the next installment of compilation albums on the Rephlex record label. It features another set of tracks by the key players on the label and is equally as good as the first compilation (Braindance (various artists)) The sounds are spaced out emotional and very original explorations of electronia. The CD kicks off with some mellow keys on which glitchy drum and bass future breaks are laid on top. The second tracks goes straight into a gentle industrial clanking atmosphere where a glimmering machine sits in a castle basement, blue light floods through the window in the middle of the night, the machine gets more energy as the track progresses.All the tracks seem to have concepts behind them waiting to be discovered. I especially like track 14 'It aint perfect till its perfect' by LIKE-A-TIM, which sounds... Read review

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