Release Record Send Tape - Warne Marsh

Advantages: A few really good tracks, some De La Soul tunes you have never heard before
Disadvantages: The album has no flow, a few weak remixes

...some of De La Soul's more successful tracks, remixes, and live performances. Rhino is giving you a chance to relive the classics and get a fresh impression with some tight remixes. De La Mix Tape is probably not the best disk for a first time listener of De La Soul. There is no ebb and flow to the album. This release is aimed more for the established fan but heck; a new listener might dig it too. What do I know, I am just a critic. DJ, spin that record! Stakes is High (Remixed) 4:49~ Mos Def (fun fact #2) and Truth Enola works with Detroit producer Jay Dee to rework the 1996 release. This version is more rugged than the original with Mos and Enola laying vocals over Dee's samplings. I am not going to tell you this one is better than that one but both are outstanding on their own. Dee put together a wicked remix and Mos and Enola... Read review

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Advantages: Different sounds, more melodic.
Disadvantages: Less dancy, slower.

...A pun was definitely called for in the title of this article, no doubt about it. Pet Shop Boys started off in 1981 and released their first album in 1985, called Please so that people could enter a record shop and ask, "can I have the new Pet Shop Boys album, please." Back then, they were pioneers of a type of music which laid melancholic lyrics with ethereal melodies upon proficiently produced hi-NRG dance music. The result was uplifting, thoughtful and deep music to get lost in. From there, Pet Shop Boys have produced a house album: Introspective, sunk deep with the beautiful Behaviour album, shot up to the happy/dizzy heights of Very, gone latin with Bilingual and dark and dingy with Nightlife. Their new album, Release will serve to reiterate a message Pet Shop Boys have been sending out since the start... Read review

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Advantages: Some good tunes, some nice vocals
Disadvantages: A few fillers.

...GREEN DAY - WARNING -------------------- Green Day have been playing quality punk music since the late 1980's, with some classic fast paced punk songs such as Basket Case, Longview and When I come Around, in fact most of their songs could be summed up as three chords chart toppers. So it was quite a surprise for the fans when they released this album, which stepped away from the fast paced three chord electric guitars and thrashy drums, and introduced a more pop orientated offering, which brought the Acoustic guitars to the front and gave the band the chance to show their musical talent. Green Day first formed in the mid 80's when Billie Joe and Mike decided to form a band, both were at the same school and were listening to all the same bands, groups like the Replacements, Mr T Experience and Operation Ivy, also groups like... Read review

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