Music CD - Z-Trip: Shifting Gears

	Music CD: Shifting Gears Artist: Z-Trip List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $4.00 Your Save: $ 13.98 ( 78% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Hollywood Records
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Tracks: 1. Intro 2. Listen To The DJ 3. All About The Music 4. The Get Down 5. About Face 6. Furious 7. Take Two Copies 8. For My People 9. Bury Me Standing 10. Breakfast Club 11. 3rd Gear 12. Everything Changes 13. Walking Dead 14. Shock And Awe 15. Revolution (STR Parts 1 + 2)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0720616250322 Format: Enhanced Label: Hollywood Records Manufacturer: Hollywood Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Hollywood Records Release Date: 2005-04-19 Studio: Hollywood Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Outstanding CD Comment: In this CD, Z-Trip's music makes you feel every sense of your being. This CD defintely ROCKS!!! Customer Rating: Summary: YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comment: Didn't the Executioners already do an album like this, like three or four times (all of which sucked tremendously--except when they worked with Mike Patton)? This sounds to me like a Sprite sampler mix--which is even worse than those Scion mixes, which are little more than a serious of incomplete and very biased "name dropping." The sad part is that Z is name dropping on fools who are known to jump on anyone's track, which makes me wonder if he pissed everyone else off or what. I can barely make it past this terrible first track with Soup (like, who?). At this point in the history of hip hop it's high time for a new mark on the timeline, and this certainly is miles from being that. There is little if any exploration here. You can totally be an old school crate digger and still have breakthroughs (IE: People Under The Stairs or Blackalicious). RJD2 was even barely beleivable when he did this kind of showcase thing on his first CD--the difference with him was that he has some sense of grace and he has the guts to make a decision and stick to that sound (which was a sound with party beats, but also a ton of heart and soul). Basically, if you think that J-5 are the greatest rap group of all time or that Linkin Park don't deserve ANY of the hate, then by all means this will not dissapoint you at all. But for me, all these party beats, Lord Finesse cadences, and undescriptive lyrics amount to little more than another DJ centered showcase of artists that hopefully didn't cost much to hire. Even the typically forward thinking "Busdriver" steps into the p0rno all flacid like the track is a pillow to take a big fat nap on. Seriously, do we need another one of these kind of albums? This album is to the Scratch Pickles what Eminem is to the Beastie Boys. To make another even more degrading comparison: it's like box wine--it tastes OK when your already drunk but afterwards you get one hell of a stomach ache. Even worse, it's like a wine sampler and I for one already know what kind of wine I like. People have told me that Z is an arrogant egomaniac and I didn't want to beleive it because DJ-P is such a nice guy, but yeah--this CD is clearly full-of-itself and made for those who actually liked the second Dialated Peoples CD (YUCK!). Swamp's album was corny too (he probably even laughs at himself), but at least it took alot risks to be unique (Swamp Vs. Buckethead--when can I get that?). In the words of Simon Cowell: "this is just way too safe for me." I think I need to go wash my mouth out now with some Mixmaster Mike or Q-Bert. Customer Rating: Summary: downshifting... Comment: This great underground master DJ deservedly gets a release on a major record label... but there are too many rappers, not enough personality in the production, and obvious restraint in the sampling (surely the result of copyright clearance issues.) Compared to Z-Trip's amazing and audacious Uneasy Listening with DJ-P and Live at the Future Primitive with Radar, this is just a bore... yawn... Customer Rating: Summary: Not Expected Comment: I have to first start out saying that I am more of a downtempo fan. Because of this, I only could only repeatedly listen to a few of the songs on the cd. The mc's distract me more than add to the beats themselves. Z's reliance on guest artists during the bulk of the cd made most of the tracks filler. Last time that I checked, it was a Z-trip cd, not Ztrip produces. The tracks that are solely Z-trip, About Face and 3rd gear, are my favorite. I would like the first part of the final track, but found that the mood oppressive. The voice guy talks about "violent revolution". Sorry to bring politics into this, but what kind of revolution are you going to bring to the most powerful country in the world, especially with second clips in an overly dramatic song? The second part, about 30 seconds, has a cool mix between gospel and drums. I have heard a lot of mixes before, but not that combination. This right here is the good part of Z, he isn't a back up dj, he is his own act. Recommend listening to tracks individually then buying, or getting by whatever other means, what you want. It isn't really a concept cd, although some songs flow into each other. Customer Rating: Summary: Beats Comment: Z-trip's new album shifting gears has very rythmic beats that you could easily listen to and sway your head. The song everything changes featuring aceyalone and mystic is one of the best songs on the album. The soothing voice of Mystic and the dope flow of aceyalone and z-trip together. The turntablist style so unique it sounds alot like old school hip-hop like when people first began learning what you could do with a mixer a record player getting beats from you 8-track recorder. Comming up with funky beats and dope words to flow with it . Just a reminderthat there are stilol good musicians out there in our world that hypes up the worst albums. The song breakfast club with Murs is a funny yet fun song to listen to when bored becuase you could eaily relate to the lyrics.I hope whoever read this finds it helpful More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Shifting Gears features collaborations with Chester Bennington, Chuck D. and Soup of Jurassic 5.