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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mashed to the Max, 28 April 2008
I own both the Mash Up Mix 2006 and 2007 and have to say this is the weakest of the three but not by too much of a margin. CD1 is absolutely brilliant, with a voyage through so many house and garage genres. Fantastic beat throughout and really deserves five stars. However! CD2... oh dear. this is a complete mess and I think is only here as a kind of experiment (and of course if MoS offers 2 CD's it will always Look like better value than 1). If you like experimental music you'll love it, however if you hanker after the all round quality of the previous two installments, you might be disappointed.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This is abizmal. I know good, and this is nowhere near., 17 April 2008
Well to start off i bought the first Mash Up Mix CD when it came out a couple years back, and it was alright. It wasn't amazing but had a 4 or so decent songs mixed together.
This 2008 CD is so terrible. Not one song on two! yes two! (they had 2 CD's to make at least one good mix) is even 'not bad'. Just alot of good songs, mixed with new attempts at songs that litterally sound like they have been "Mash"ed "Up". Its most lightly because the charts in general is terrible and not one decent dance genre of song is catchy, only repitive.
The last song on CD2 (Now You're Gone) really sums this compilation up, recent repitive songs, that sound terrible. Mixed with old good songs, that should only be tampered with if the DJ know what they are doing.
Don't allow record companies to take your money for this excuse for music.
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"The Boys Are Back In Town", 16 Mar 2008
When I see The Mash Up Mix on the website, I usually get excited, because I know I'm in for a treat, mashups between disco, dance, techno, hip-hop, drum n bass, rave and hardcore; and I have to say 2008 is no different.
The boys are back, at a guess they must be using 3 decks, one with the main instrumental, another with an accapella, and another with just a deck they can scratch along to, or just put the next vocal on. Not only do they mix the pair together, sometimes you hear them literally spinning the records to suit the other, or other effects they throw in for posterity.
CD1 is a journey through old skool hip-hop, right through to trance and dance, and all mixed up for the fun of it; the boys really have thought this through, and the homage to old rave is definitely here; though towards the end of the disk, you can tell they've got a bit tired and it's not as good as the beginning. Some hot moments on here include the mashup with Max Sedgley, Tone Loc, Artful Dodger and Bob Sinclair, with it's funky texture and Mr Ozio meets Vanilla Ice, works well, who would have thought it?
Disk 2 is just as good, with the boys even mixing up to 4 items in a track, they must have good memories to remember what goes together, and lucky not to bump off the wrong record: the attention to detail, care and remixology is amazing in this compilation, and really is the only MoS CD I bother with now. Some moments of cleverness come through in the mashup with Armand Van Helden, Hardrox, Jukey Feat. Sway, making a new record that would be fine on it's own.
Very good mix, but looses a star due to it not being as good as 2007's mix, but that's more a matter of my taste, and shouldn't really put you off this gem. I can see me coming back to this in 10 years time, like I'm doing with the Annual 3.
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