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Scott Tsukamoto | Henderson, NV USA | 11/02/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Since 1996 Brooklyn Bounce has yet to stop making the best of their own type of dance music. Alex, Ulrica, and Diablo are the face of Brooklyn Bounce (this time around) and the producers are Matthias Menck and Dennis Bohn. Let's see if this album is as good as you'd expect...01 Intro - 0:44 - Well, what do you expect? Some kind of miraculous beautiful opening?? Well the intro gets the job done of introducing themselves and explaining that they've got the bass, beats and melody!! Not Rated
02 Born To Bounce (Music Is My Destiny) (Video Edit) - 3:44 - Their second single contains awesome beats, and bass, melody could use some work...lol an awesome opening track filled with energy, everything you'd expect from Brooklyn Bounce!!10/10
03 Are You Ready For The Bazz? - 4:30 - Good progressive vibe coming from this song, and it doesn't shy away from vocals!! not too long not too short, perfection?? not quite, but still good. 8.5/10
04 Club Bizzare - 6:53 - Their third single and probably the main reason you're reading this review is for this song. However, the version included on the album is not the same as the version you may have previously heard! So be careful and buy the single first, the album is still awesome just this song isn't quite as good. 7/10
05 Sample Slayer - 5:07 - Similar to Are You Ready For The Bazz? maybe even a little bit better, tons of awesome beats will keep you coming back for more. Even better than the album version of Club Bizarre! 8.5/10
06 We Are Electric - 3:48 - Good, but kind of boring and repetetive. At least the song isn't that long. Not that bad, an average album track. No frills. 7/10
07 No Compromise (Just Music!) - 6:44 - Seriously no compromises hear... just awesome music!! This is one of the best songs on the album. Great for clubbing :D 9.5/10
08 Take Me There - 6:55 - More melodic than most of the other tracks. Another awesome track, it bridges the melodic vocals and the progressive beats together really well! 9/10
09 Bass, Beats & Melody (Video Edit) - 3:44 - Their first single off of this album. And is certainly one of the best tracks on the album!! This song wonderfully blends the bass, beats, and melody into one killer song!! 10/10
10 French Bounce - 6:00 - Pretty boring, no frills song here. Well, it's not horrible just not that great either. It's instrumental. An average track. 6/10
11 The Dawn - 5:46 - Quite possibly the best non-single track on this album!! It's actually quite similar to most Brooklyn Bounce singles! And if it were a bit shorter it probably could be mistaken as a single!! 10/10
12 If You Wanna Ride (Honey, Honey, Honey) - 3:00 - hehehe... This song always makes me smile. Why? A dance group doing a RAP song?? Well surprisingly it isn't that bad. I actually enjoy this better than most rap songs on the radio these days. Although this song does have some profanity in it... so keep it away from children!! 8/10
13 Superassbassmother - 6:37 - Again this song does contain some profanity! But anyway the song itself is pretty good some nice progressive trance elements added to it. 8/10
14 My Roots - 3:28 - Who's roots? Well, it's never really made clear but Diablo sings the songs few vocals. It's really not that great and should proabably be avoided... 4/10
15 Essential Vibes - 4:55 - These vibes are definitely essential! One of the best songs on this CD!! Probably the best instrumental track on the CD as well!! 9.5/10
16 Hell Is A Dancefloor - 4:23 - Harder than most of the songs on the album, and if you consider the 'H' word as a bad word than again some profanity on this track. 8.5/10
17 Born To Bounce (Music Is My Destiny) (An Acoustic Reprise) - 2:30 - A surprisingly beautiful unplugged version of the song. Although it does get really boring as they only say the chorus "Music is my destiny, My escape from reality", but luckily the instrumentation will keep most listeners glued.As an added bonus Radikal Records decided to release an extra mulimedia CD with the album featuring three videos for the singles! The videos are in awesome quality and are in MPEG form! Here's a review of each video:01 Bass, Beats & Melody Video - 3:44 - Nice video, no real plot involved (but not many Brooklyn Bounce videos do have a plot). It's basically just them in a fake city. Cruising around in their car, going in elevators... 7/10
02 Born To Bounce Video - 3:41 - The video takes place in some kind of green house or something... Sadly the girls look rather freaky :( I think the mood they were going with was scary. I mean the girls look pretty scary, and it's pretty scary when they tear a doll apart and destroy a car... oh well. 7/10
03 Club Bizzare Video - 3:47 - YES!! The single version of this song!! Arguably the best song on the album the video is bright and colourful. It even includes the actual producers spinning some vinyls. The Plot?? umm... everyone wearing red leather and breaking some large ice pieces. Not the best video ever created, but better than the other two videos. 8/10Overall, this isn't the best version of the album available, but this is probably the easiest to get a hold of. So this album is definitely recommended to all Brooklyn Bounce fans!! Their is a "Special Edition" that was released for a limited time in Germany that also includes a megamix and some additional remixes on the second CD along with the videos. It also features the single version of Club Bizzare!! If you can find that version than you've got the best version. But either way just buy it, it's awesome!!"