voicedude - roamin the streets

a really great mashup of b-52's 'roam' and martha & the vandellas' 'dancing in the streets', it fits so much and have listened so much to it so when i heard the original vandellas track, it was almost as something was missing. another feature i like is the thrown in elements of manfred mann's 'do wah diddy'.

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lfo - butterslut

most would know of 'freak' mark bell's 2000 technobanger, well this was the b-side and as the a-side, you have lunacy. basicly you have a distorted groove and a offbeat lead that goes through countless alterations in sound through out the 5minutes. my favourite part is halfway in where it goes smooth detroity for some bars and then goes back into the hard distorted groove.

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junior kelly - bun down rome

i like the groove in this, track is nothing spectacular but still good stuff. i always confuse sizzlas and junior kelly's voices, they both have that twong when they added another vocal charachter to the track.

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the beta band - it's not too beautiful

i can't remember when i first heard this or where, all i know it was that the version i usually heard started from the (not so) spooky interlude two minutes in. when i got hold of the full track later on, i thought, wait a minute this sounds like the strummings of that eminem track. actually it's not that similar but sort of, anyhow, this is a really good track and bring together mellow rock, cinematic postrock-isms with a touch of hiphop sensability.

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diana haddad - zay el sokkar

this uses the same loop of bassline that was used for haifa wehbe's mosh 3adra 3stanna, altho it's not in the foreground all the time such as in the haifa track. i like both tracks but i prefer this one since the fact that diana can sing an all. diana has a very distinct voice that fooled me hard when i was younger and heard 'ammane' for the first time, i didn't for one second think that she was in her twenties since she had a growly more mature voice. anyhow this was from the 2006 album named simply 'diana 2006'. nice slice of habibi-pop, i really like the synthy bits.

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