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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (20 ratings)

Skeptic - Tear / Media - 30-Oct-08 04:37 AM
Tear is a big classical amen tune.
Starts with with a great cut up vocal, then another wailing vocal hits and it becomes the forefront of the tune, proper diva vocal, hands in the air style.
The heavy amens hit and roll out, then the whole tune stops on the snare before the drop, and hits again with just the smacking beats and a massive sub bassline.
It rolls on and on, its a great intro tune, full of energy, excellent dancefloor D.

From The Man Like The Pennywise - Suspension Of Disbelief - 14-Oct-08 01:39 AM
Mystery is always a tune that stuck out to me.
Haunting but beautiful strings play as the track just builds up with a hectic amen bubbling away.
Great bassline, lovely twinkling little keys hit halfway through.
One of Nookie's best tunes as far as im concerned.
The tune is ethereal, deep and definitely has some thing other worldly about it.
The A side is a darker affair, quite similar, but for me it has difficulty surpassing the generally excellence of ‘Mystery’
Classic 1993 business.

Black Moon - Enta Da Stage - 20-Jun-08 02:52 AM
If there is only one word to describe this album it is 'RUGGED'
Surely the precursor to 36 Chambers and is the turning point that took hip hop back home to New York when Snoop, Dre & Pac were running things in LA.

First of all the production on this is perfect, better than perfect.
It was obviously mostly made up of samples actually sampled from vinyl; it has that dusty lo-fi feel to the whole album.
The Beatminerz (Evil Dee especially) just excelled themselves with the most simple of beats, but were so head nodding you could break your neck.
Mostly consisting of old breakbeats with added hits, hard hitting beats, infectious basslines and the odd mid range sample melting it all together.
I can’t praise the production enough.
It sounds muddy, classically oldskool in the same vein that RZA’s production did on 36 Chambers. Its like a mix of early RZA production and Q-Tips beats for ATCQ.
Still maintain that jazzy, soul sound but with an horrifically dark edge.

Then of course with have the MC's, Buckshot is the main man here and takes responsibility for most of the album.
He has such an amazing flow, brilliant deep laid back voice (like Guru but not so monotone); featuring boastful and threatening raps all along the same thuggish lines but it doesn’t get boring.
He paints a picture of how real Brooklyn is, violence and robbery is nothing, but he sounds sincere, it’s hard to explain but it feels right.
5ft Accelerator is his lyrical partner, a more wild style, higher pitched voice and comes with some disturbing lyrics.

This is a perfect 10 out of 10 album, only Illmatic and 36 Chambers can compare, even Mobb Deeps 'The Infamous' pales in comparison.
You just don’t get hip hop like this at all anymore, real rugged street shit, you feel its honest, its life to these people.
No bling, no fancy shit, this is pure gangsta rap.

Track highlights....
How Many MC's
Who Got Da Props
Powaful Impack!
I Got Cha Opin
Slave

If you are a fan of hip hop you need this, especially if you like the classic 1993/1995 ages.
If you are a fan of Nas, Gang Starr, KRS-One, Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang, Biggie, Onyx, ATCQ etc, you must cop this.

Fracture & Neptune - Visions Of Amen / Clouds Over Memphis / Visions - 05-Jun-08 02:39 AM
Amens ahoy!
Fracture & Neptune make the standout track on this 3x12" release on non-profit 'for the music' label Subvert Central; in the form of Visions Of Amen.

It could have been made in 1996 but you can somehow tell its a more contemporary tune.
The atmosphere is dark, spacious but hectic and it never lets up, brooding strings and fantastically over the top amen edits which stop, start, stutter and reverse all over the shop.
The tune never really seems to go anywhere, it doesn’t have your usual boring drum and bass tune structure, it just maintains this frenzied vibe. A nice change in these 2-step times

Everything But The Girl - Single - 05-Jun-08 02:23 AM
Photek adds a real nice subtle touch to an already great tune.
Snappy Photek beats are a given but they are not too edited and are not the focus point of thetune.
The vocals (ie: the song itself) remains at the forefront.

It's sad, lamenting lyrics combined with the deep and sombre vibe can make you forget you are listen to what technically is a drum & bass tune.
Can work in a mix or as a stand alone track, great work from EBTG and Photek. Quality music.

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