Reviews

Hi and merry Christmas to all!

Thank you for reading my humble blog, please leave your comments too so I know how to improve this:) Some reviews of cds I´ve been listening to lately. Older stuff, but still worth mentioning.
Let´s start with Erykah Badu. This is the second album she made and the last one I liked. Somehow she in my humble opinion just lost it after this album. The opening track is pure funk and the rest of the album is similar to Baduizm, which is excellent album.Penitentiary Philosophy just doesn´t fit on the album, because it´s only funk track and so different from rest of the cd. I wonder why they put it as opening track. The good part of the song is that Erykah gets to stretch her voice more than on rest of the tracks and really does good job on using hew voice in raw way. That´s the good part of the track, otherwise not my favourite, would work better on other album.

Didn´t Cha Know

... & On

And let´s move on to 90´s:) Kristine W Land Of The Living

Now here´s a legendary singer and the first track I ever heard in club was Feel What You Want. Absolute classic that is and it is included this album. Here you get some slow ones and house tunes, which all work well. Produced by Rollo from Faithless, you can guess this is classy cd of good old house music. Kristine got a strong voice and good melodies. Sounds might be bit out of date, but I recommend this anyway. It has that 90´s house vibe, which you like or not. Good vocals, good tunes, nuff said.

Feel What You Want

Land Of The Living


Last but definetly not least is Dj Zany´s mix cd Godfathers Of Hardstyle. Name tells you all there is to know. You got good selection of hardstyle here. Well mixed and the mix really works well. I still prefer unmixed cds, but this has it pumping all cd long well eventhough there´s 26 tunes on the cd. If you listen to it as dj-mix you enjoy this much more than listening to it as compilation. I think this is a good example of hardstyle music and good selection of that sound. Good tracks, well mixed and put together. Nothing essential or superb, but still worth getting at low price. Quality.

Couple of reviews

Hi all!

Thought I´d write reviews of couple of cds I just listened to and mixed salad this is once again! More reviews coming either on weekend or early next week.


Starting with 3 Doors Down´s latest Time Of My Life. If you´re expecting to hear other Kryptonite, you´re sadly mistaken. This album is much more midtempo than their biggest hit. There are your typical slow ones also thrown in too. It´s not a bad album, I´d say it is bit dull to be honest. I didn´t find any particular highlights on the album, since most songs are pretty similar. Playing works well, vocals are at same par as always with 3 Doors Down, but the last ingredient to make it something special is missing. It´s nice album, nothing exceptional. I´d say the previous ones were better. It is well produced and overall nice.

Believer

Time Of My Life

When You´re Young

Now get ready for something totally different:


What can I say? One of the albums of the year for me definetly. For those of you, who don´t know Angerfist is hardcore group hailing from Netherlands and one of the most-respected players in the genre. What we have here is massive 3cd box containing no less than 45 tracks! Most tracks either have mc or samples thrown in them and this works well. When listening the whole box through, sometimes I found myself hoping for a instrumental track for a change. Eventhough album is one massive box, it is very tight and oozes with quality. Danny really knows how to make slamming hardcore. Album contains some of the biggest tracks, collaborations and some remixes. Absolutely worth of getting!

Voice Of Mayhem

Incoming

And Jesus Wept (Hellraiser sample)

Somewhere Down The Lane (Samples Snow´s Informer)