Nice album. Hammond Organ + Bass/Drum rhythm section. Especially the arrangement of Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You is very uplifting and a real party starter.

The muted horn sound in Esperanto reminds me of Carl Craigs remix of Hooter by Ultramarine. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually stolen from that track or if this track were more or less to be considered as a dubstep interpretation of Hooter under a different name.

A great collection of remixes that explores the realms of dub techno, dubstep and minimal, and contains household names from those areas.

It's an absolute shame that this hasn't been released on vinyl though, because this is typically a style of music where you will find the hardcore vinyl lovers.

Hopefully it will be just a matter of time until this will be pressed on black gold. Weird that they did choose to release the original Beat Pharmacy album - which in my opnion is really not as good - on vinyl and let these great mixes exist as some sort of downloadable bonus.

As they say about many double albums in rock history: it could have been great if they just took the best tracks and made it a single one.

Same goes for this double EP.

A1 "Crossroads" is a typical Innervisions-style stomper. Great build, massive drive and everything in the right place. Exactly what you might expect from this label.
A2 "Bambatta" combines very basic synthlines (too basic for me) with a KenLou-style drum, but it's just not loose enough to swing properly. All in all pretty poor, but listenable.
B1 "Nitzi" is a fine production, but nothing special happens. Good enough for a b-side on my proposed single vinyl version.
B2 "Crossroads" sounds like Carl Craig havin' a bad day. A rejected track from the Landcruising-album. Dark, heavy synths that sound quite impressive, but just don't go anywhere. Nice try, but I'll never play this for fun.
C1 "Nonresponder" is a nice minimal builder, although the drums sound a bit simple. Again, nice for the b-side.
C2 "Ugly" is minimal in the way that the performer put a minimal of effort in it to create something special. A waste of space on any vinyl, in my opinion, but especially if it's released by Innervisions. I can't believe the label didn't get any better demo's than this.
D1 "Here comes the sun" is a very beautiful, deep tune, although it's a bit of a weird one on this EP. Typical François K. sound, although the mastering is a bit poor; on a big soundsystem the high end completely drowns in all this whirling bass.
D2 "Ukukholwa Kuwe" is nice 'n dubby, a sort of crossover between house and dubstep. The beats could've been a bit more refined, but all in all it's got a good drive.

In short, A1 and D1 are the only two tracks that I would buy if they came out seperately; C1, D2 and B1 are good enough to feature on the B-side. After all 20 euros was a bit overprized for what this EP offers, and in general it's not really up to the standards of the label.

The A-side of this 7" is a completely ball-less piece of crap. It's unbelievable how far the Chemical Brothers have gone from where they once started.

However, you might buy this release for the B-side, which is - in fact - a fairly good track. It's still a rip-off, though: a mixture of Chemical nostalgia à la 'Star Guitar' with a bassline that's - a bit too obvious - inspired by the Booka Shade boys.

Nevertheless, Snooprah is good fun. It's a glance of what the Brothers used to be capable of, or probably still are, but if so, why the hell are they putting out crap like The Salmon Dance, then?

I've been trying all afternoon to determine if the hiss on my copy is due to the defect mentioned above or that it's just part of the music.

I think I like it anyway. It's a great album in all. Heard people complain about the vocals making it too poppy, but it doesn't bother me too much. The tracks sound more like songs, but they still have the good elements that made Burial's debut a classic. A worthy follow up and a nice addition to the first album anyway.

Both tracks are nothing at all like any of the Henrik Schwarz-stuff that you know. I dont know any other stuff by Klas Lindblad so I can't really judge who did what.

Basically it's filtered house music with a bit of a gloomy edge. It reminds me of the singles New Order made around 1982, like Everything Gone Green, only a bit cleaner productionwise. A bit outdated, nevertheless, even for 2004.

Incidentally bumped onto this 12" recently.
"This time I'm not wrong" is very clearly the track that evolved later into the song Catch The Sun from the Doves' first album.
Very interesting to hear this early version of "Firesuite" (later to appear on the first Doves album as well).

I can understand the negative comments about this release. However, I do like this tune and I did buy it the other day, because I just think it's fun. I like the brutal and daunting statement that Villalobos makes by making this track 37 minutes long. But apart from that the brass hook is catchy as hell and puts a smile on my face every time, just like Easy Lee and Que Belle Epoque, in all their cheesiness, do. Whoever said that minimal music has to be dark or gloomy all the time?

When it comes to its production this record is nothing new, but at the same time this track will prove unavoidable like, let's say, French Kiss by Lil Louis, which is annoying, funny, catchy and arguably far too long as well.

Probably, if Ricardo cares to make a 4-minute edit, it might eventually bring him a top-40 hit...