What to say? What to say? I wanted so much to like this cd, and for some reason I had a much different impression of how it would sound. I was expecting a very New York quality; very dark and tribal. Hard-hitting ya know. Instead I got deeper grooves and enough vocals to start a diva-choir.
"Never assume," my mama always said.
I'm not one of those DJs that doesn't like vocal tracks just because he's trying to be different by playing beats for 6 hours BUT (and this is just my opinion) when a DJ plays nothing but vocal after vocal after vocal, something gets lost. There's no break for thought I guess, and the tracks loose some of their magic. I'm afraid that's what's happened here..
It all starts off wonderfully with a great track by Pussy Dub Foundation followed by another one by Maya. Kinda funky, a little deeper than I had imagined; both with lots of vocals, no problem. The hard, drum tracks are coming next right? No such luck. For the next 60 minutes it's nothing but the same kind of sound: deep, funky vocals. And there are some more great tracks stuck in there too but with the onslaught of so many similarly sounding tracks, they all get lost in the mix. Somewhere in the midst of my disappointment, there was a cover of Madonna's classic Like a Virgin; "blasphemy," I muttered under my breath..
Looking at the bright side, I commend Denise 'Twisted Dee' Gurney for attempting to create a vibe. This may have worked in a club setting but doesn't on cd. I'm suprised that she didn't include more of her great productions here. In the end, I think that's what I was expecting more than anything..
