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Music CD - Reprazent, Roni Size: In the Mode
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Music CD: In the Mode
Artist: Reprazent, Roni Size
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $5.44
Your Save: $ 8.54 ( 61% )
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Manufacturer: Fontana Island
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Tracks:
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1. Railing Pt. 2
2. Snapshot
3. System Check
4. Ghetto Celebrity (featuring Method Mad)
5. Lucky Pressure
6. Switchblade
7. In Tune With Sound
8. Who Told You.
9. Heavy Rotation
10. Staircase
11. Mexican
12. Dirty Beats
13. Out of the Game
14. Centre Of The Storm
15. IDI Banashapan
16. In & Out (Edited)
17. Play The Game (Extended)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731454820127
Label: Fontana Island
Manufacturer: Fontana Island
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Fontana Island
Release Date: 2000-10-24
Studio: Fontana Island
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: No, It's not Newforms.
Comment: In case anyone's wondering why the reviews are so mixed on this album, I'll clear it all up. Half of us want this album to be "Newforms Part 2" (or Part 3, technically) very badly. The other half of us appreciate the album on its own without the troubling "Newforms" comparison. I'm personally kind of in the middle, as I heard "In the Mode" long before "Newforms." Yes, "In the Mode" is pretty good, yes it's worth buying/ripping/stealing/taping/remixing/whatever, but damn, man. It sure as hell ain't "Newforms." But again, what is?
-Mediakill
P.S. Spell-check your reviews, you're making fools of yourselves.
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Summary: Underground Magik!
Comment: (I am actuly a teenager but i coudnt be botherd to put an email address.)
All you people who gave this a low rating are just haters. of course u aint gonna like this because u r stuck up nerds. you have to be in the jungle underground scene in ENGLAND (where im from, and where these guys r from, and where dnb/jungle is massive) to understand that jungle is actuly music intelligent people who understand its complexity & greatness. This is an amazing step forward for vocal dnb & it is not actully hardcore like some reviewer said, it is actually jungle. hardcore is stuff like dillinja, lemon d, DJ Friction & MC Skibadee. The album has some sick tunes, like Heavy rotation, Mexican, Dirty Beats (personal fave) and Ghetto celebrity. They all exept mexican and i think a few others, and they all soung tight. You need to grasp the fact that vocals are actually what everyone uses now because they sound sick. and whoever said u cant dance to dnb, u are wrong! DJ's r playyin it in all da clubs in london.
if u r gonna buy this, i reccomend also buy stuff by Jenna G, Goldie, Adam F, Shy FX, Rebel MC, DJ Hype & DJ Die. buy it now, u wont be disapointed!
Customer Rating:
Summary: see the future flex position
Comment: The best thing about In the Mode is the sequencing. From "Railing Pt. 2" to "Play the Game", there is not one song that is out of place, making In the Mode a cohesive album statement. That being said, it is not without filler. Although it stretches for a diverse gamut of possiblities: R&B ("Lucky Pressure", "Staircase", and "Play the Game"), Rap ("System Check", "Ghetto Superstar", and "Dirty Beats"), and pure D-and-B ("Snapshots", "The Mexican"), it lacks consistency. But the album is almost worth getting for "Snapshots" alone, one of the greatest D-and-B songs ever recorded. The song uses the same "slow,fast,break,fast,conclusion" structure that New Forms' "Brown Paper Bag" has and when Roni Size and company use that formula, the results are breathtaking. However, In the Mode is nothing special. Give this one a pass. C+
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Summary: This was HORRIBLE
Comment: This was one of the WORST Roni Size CD's I have heard to date. Very disappointing. What happened to the Roni Size who made New Forms? That was the CD that first got me hooked and until this point I had been tolerating all of the CD's that followed, but this is the absolute worst music I have heard.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Roni does it again
Comment: This guy can't write one bad song. We find this album digging deeper and going darker than New Forms. Roni is evolutionizing drum n' bass as we speak. The guess artists come on strong as well. Method Man lays down some smooth rhymes. I've always been a fan of Method Man. I was very pleased to see Rahzel on here too, the Roots have always been a favorite of mine. Zak makes a strong lyrical addition as well. Roni has a song called Zak Attack on Touching Down thats dedicated to Zak. I recommend this album before getting Touching Down. Touching Down is such a great album that if you get it first, you won't really like this one. If you get this one first you will appreciate it better.
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Editorial Reviews:
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With more big-time backing than any junglist save toothy Goldie, the Roni Size all-stars return with a punchy suite of material that sounds so crossed over it could snap. The big-beat drums continue to push drum & bass toward soulful house; the vocals by MC Dynamite as well as guests Method Man and Zach de la Rocha continue to demand hip-hop respect; and the form is repeated, again and again, over and over, at 180 beats per minute. A funky key lick that might bob and weave in an able DJ's hands goes stale quickly over the duration of a long-form CD, but still Size soldiers onward with barely a tempo change. It's mystifying, as he holds so many live wires in his hands. Though the complaint department is firing full force over this seemingly unfinished release, make no mistake that crisp organic jungle standards such as "Ghetto Superstar" will continue to define the name brand, setting dance floors into a kinetic frenzy for many seasons past the shelf date. --Ian Christe
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