krayzie bone - hard time hustlin (feat. sade)

i remember first hearing this and it was the sade sample that got me hooked. the use of 'feel no pain' is extraordinary, the sparse instrumental give a great backdrop for krayzie bone whose flow is bananas like usual. the trademarked temposwitches is employed well on this and his singing is nicely done aswell

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the latin kings - halva inne (feat. godde)

this is from the first album and it's a straight up westcoast cut. godde works the first part of the track with a nate dogg like swagger and dogge goes on the romance tip but still working the playful stees that he always had in the first album.

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a guy called gerald - fever (hotter than georgia asphalt remix)

fever was a nice soulful d&b cut by gerald simpson and vocals by wendy page, gerald handed the material over to sheffield technolegends black dog for rework and creates a track that gives the original a serious run for it's money. they did so by cutting the tempo down to half and giving the track a soul makeover, it was not that much of a slam dunk to do so but it's simplicity and how they used wendy's vocals & gerald's melodies and giving them bigger emphasis is amazing.

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duffy - warwick avenue

with the might of the majors, there is no escaping this welsh blonde and her watered down oldtimesounding tracks. mark ronson is to blame for this, even though he had nothing to do with duffy. when i didn't know who this track was by, i thought it was norah jones with a touch of helium. it is good to be honest until the hook, where Norah goes out the window and you hear the characteristic whinyness of fuddy.

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