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king of woolworths - l'illustration musicale ****
mantra, march 2003

01 G-Plan
02 Montparnasse
03 Sell Me Back My Soul
04 Hub 100 
05 Evelsong
06 123 (Brillo's Beat)
07 Delia Derbyshire
08 Nuada
09 A12
10 This Is Radio Theydon


it's like beth orton were singin in an electronic based post-symphonic rock group. quite eclectic sound, one is ticking like a clock, pure electronic, the other is like an old pink floyd from the 70's, or just an old soundtrack from the end title of a french film. but there's just one point which is the same: the nice sweet melancholic melodies in the background. i really would recommend you if you like the air or bent. pretty good chances for being a fave record.

quantic soul orchestra - stampede ****
tru thoughts, apr 2003

1. Stampede
2. Raw Ingredients
3. Walking Through Tomorrow (Super 8 Part 3)
4. South Coastin
5. Something That's Real
6. Hold It Down
7. Assassin
8. Terrapin
9. Bararabatiri
10. Take Your Time Change Your Mind


this's the best remedy against summer traffic jam. nice afro grooves mixed with the feeling of a live band, and in the same time brand new. buy the CD, (copy to a tape if it's necessary) tune in and the whole family will love it. there are short songs, some of them have lyrics too (possibility to sing along!!) there are hit songs, but take care, daddy will ride fast.

it seems to me that my computer infected by a sort of @worm virus. a friend of mine had it too. his virus posted emails in his name with the subject 'screensaver' or 're:britney'. my virus does with the subject 'ninja'. i have to say this virus is clever.

bonobo - dial m for monkey *****
ninja tune, 2003

01 Noctuary
02 Flutter
03 D Song
04 Change Down
05 Wayward Bob
06 Pick Up
07 Something For Windy
08 Nothing Owed
09 Light Pattern

Album of the year. A mustbuy. Deffinitly. There's no word for this magic. And it's out TODAY.

aim - means of production ****
grand central, 2003

01 Loopdreams
02 Diggin' Dizzy
03 Let The Funk Ride
04 Original Stuntmaster
05 Concentrate
06 Just Passin' Through
07 Soul Dive (All City Mix)
08 Phantasm
09 Coast Road
10 Demonique

well, i've been listening to this record i got that strange feeling :'i know this record i know these songs...' but i wasn't wrong. this is a collection of aim's earyl works from 1995-1998. note on the sleeve: rare tracks. i like it i like it like i like it like i like the early ninja cuts.

paul oakenfold - bunka ***
warner, 2002

1. Ready Steady Go
2. Southern Sun
3. Time Of Your Life (feat. Perry Farrell & Grant Lee Phillips)
4. Hypnotised
5. Zoo York
6. Nixon's Spirit (feat. Hunter S. Thompson)
7. Hold Your Hand
8. Starry-Eyed Surprise (feat. Shifty from Crazy Town)
9. Get Em Up (Feat. Ice Cube)
10. Motion (feat. Grant Lee Phillips)
11. Harder They Come (feat. Nelly Furtado & Tricky)

You can hit me, but i like this record. I agree not so much as I do like Timo Maas his album, but there are some great tunes on this one too. Ok, and not all the tracks, especially not the raver-like ones. Well, comparing Timo and Paul is what everybody does, Timo's more underground, Paul is more for the public, i really don't know. Names like Shifty, Ice Cube, Tricky, and Nelly Furtando are the warranty of a best seller mainstream album. And it works. As I told, you can hit me. I am mad about how Shifty from Crazy Town sings .... dance all night to this deejaaay. :) hehe... cheap trick. (remember? Yama buttafly suga baba)

swinging on a star

well thanx to wice's idea now i am surfing the net getting versions of this great song. there are versions made by oscar peterson, ella, anne shelton, bruce willis, doris day, harry connick jr, frankie boy, donald duck... all that swing all that jazz...

groove armada - vertigo
Jive, 1999

1. Chicago
2. Whatever, Whenever
3. Dusk You & Me
4. Pre 63
5. If Everybody Looked The Same
6. Serve Chilled
7. I See You Baby  
8. A Private Interlude  
9. At The River
10. In My Bones
11. Your Song
12. Inside My Mind (Blue Skies)

Why not a D&K record? Why G.A. again ? Well just becous i think i have to tell you my version of the G.A. story. It was the may of 1999, after I re-experienced the electronic music, i made a trip to the netherlands. it was a rainy (what else) morning, an old dutch female friend of my was married on that day. i tuned on the radio and i heard if everybody looked the same. i was shocked by the rhythm, i started to move my feet (i always do, okey, okey) and i knew i have to get this record. it wasn't released that time. so i came back to hungary, with two and half minutes of that song on a BASF C90 tape, and i was visiting all possible record shops in the town. nobody knew groove armada that time. i did.

the avalanches again
How could they mix Donald Duck with Azzido Da Bass? How do they know, that Osmonds Let me in and America's Ventura Highway are twintracks? How could they make you smile and happy just playing a Jackson 5 sample? They know their music,and most of all, they know and love their records. Every single second.