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Dipstick
Don't Rewind: Remixes & Other Rendezvous
Genre:
ROCK/POP
Label:
Weed Records
Release date: 2001
Album Reviews
An album of retooled originals? Okay. This sort of record is a potential mark for criticism -- "How unoriginal!," naysayers cry. But producer Dipstick's swirling electronic treatments of music by such artists as Jackson Brown ("These Days," sweetly sung by Barbara Manning), Russ Tolman, and Brass Monkey win you over. With his use of funk, ambient, lounge, and rock on Don't Rewind, Dipstick proves that remaking music is an art unto itself. Highlights include the aforementioned "These Days," the rhythmically charged "Stinging Nettle," which dances with tasty vibes and percussive candy, and actually much of the disc. This is cool, moody, and spacey stuff with bizarre vocal samples. Don't Rewind is great soundtrack fodder, if you're into that sort of thing. Dipstick's right -- don't rewind this record, just press play. ~ Liana Jonas, All Music Guide
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Right Now Akon |
| The guy whose career has been built upon memories of prison redemption, naming his first albums "Trouble" and "Konvicted," returns on a "more law-abiding" and positive note, choosing "Freedom" as his third effort's title. In only a few years Akon has grown to reach World Music Award status as the best selling male in the planet, and even when the accuracy of those honours may be debatable, one cannot stop wondering the reason why he is so popular: maybe his irritatingly high-pitched vocals, sounding like they've been treated with a vocoder, without real need for one; or maybe is the vague echoes of his childhood in Senegal mixed with an unremarkable R&B and hip-hop style; or rather his ability to deliver devilish gimmicks and painfully repetitive choruses? Whatever it is, in "Right Now" he fully delivers it once more: simple, effective and guaranteed to sell by the buckets. | |
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