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My Songs are your songs? Song Swapping Gone Mad!

bordersj2 | Boston | 04/13/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"When I first saw this last summer, I was thinking "Man does this look familiar..." It didn't have anything to do with the music, but the cover - I knew I saw it before. And low and behold when I was home I pulled out this massive conglomerate of a 6 disc Decadance chillout compilation titled: "The Ultimate Chillout Album" and saw pretty much the exact same cover... just on a different wall. Seroiusly, have a look. B00006JSHV. Already you know this isn't the most original of releases.Still, it's not a bad cd. You've got some lounge cuts, some bossa cuts, alternative takes and remakes and general feel good bossa and samba mixed in. Artists include Maya FS, Mo'Horizons, Da lata and many others as they mix and match styles and skills on this semi-mixed compilation. However this cd isn't without fault. I found some of the songs a bit annoying over time ("Fancy" and "One" come to mind) and the Italian bossa Buweyah seems like more of a "Sister Bossa" modeled track than this. And if you have heard "Cafe Samba", which has literally stripped off tracks from this compilation and put them onto that one, this will hardly sound new to you but of course that's at no fault of this compilation's own. Odd, but I know exactly what the previous reviewer meant when he/she said that a song was a bit embarassing as some songs seemed to force the Braziliance with cliche'd sounds and loops.All in all, I would say this is a solid release but not one of the best I own. There are just so many nu-Brazil cd's out there - this is one I'd say to take a pass on if you're comparing with Brazilectro (usually 2 discs of good tunes) or Glucklich (mixed by Rainer Truby). But if you're looking and deciding between this and Cafe Samba I'd recommend Cafe Samba instead. IMO it has the better all around songs. The Italian Bossa mixes in since they went on and stripped cuts from Pyramide's Cafe Noir series... who of course stripped songs from Irma's "Sister Bossa" series. Talk about song taking gone crazy! So there are a few suggestions if you like this - but just watch the group names/song titles for carry-over before you buy any of them."