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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Breaks, tech house, acid house, hip hop, EVERYTHING!, 3 Nov 2003
If you've stumbled upon Layo & Bushwacka via Love Story (and the AWFUL Finally bootleg version), checked out and liked the fantastic Night Works and Low Life, stop in here for a bit of a different journey. It lets you know why they're both so respected as DJs on the club circuit. Very different in mood to their actual artist album material (especially with the very tech house 2nd disc), it showcases tracks which lets you know the sounds that have influenced them and also the tracks that currently rock dancefloors which they're in charge of.Those of you who were lucky enough to pick up Layo & Bushwacka!s Ibiza Cheese Free Mix off the front cover of music should know what you're in store for here. A real treat. This is L&Bs first mix outing and showcases their loves for beats and breaks. Disc 1 smoothly blends together fun party time hip hop cut up tracks before shifting up a gear into more housier territories via some lovely acid house. All the mixing is smooth as you journey from rough hip hop breaks into electronic house ... pure quality. Kenny Dope's take on Resin Dogs Rock The Record is pure fun hip hop, but then take note as the mood gets deeper when Layo & Bushwacka's remix of Orbital kicks in. The Detroit Experiment's Think Twice starts the housier section of the CD, wickedly disco funky, before Dread Flimstone and Fast Eddie reminds you of house music past, rising pianos and hypnotic acid lines. 4 Hero rounds off the disc in jazz and bass stylee while the track from Midas hints at the tech house sound that is to come on Disc 2. The second disc opens up deep but the absolute class which is the Jay Tripwire remix of Dumbek lets you know this is going to be a nice punchy chunky journey. Rough and grimey house, sometimes tribal, sometimes bassy, sometimes electro, always class. Never obvious tracks, no big cliches, just good solid dancefloor movers. Top track is the fantastic 'la 11eme march' right at the end of the disc. Deep pulsing bassline, very Slam/Youngsters in nature. The slightly indie dance section of Depeche Mode and Pyromaniac Gardeners break up the mix slightly, adding a few choice guitar licks and breaks into the fray to make things nicely interesting. Definately pumping club fare all the way! Alot of moods for your money here, all quality. Another fine compilation that stands out from the crowd ... and just about time they got round to doing a bloody DJ mix too!
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