"I'd bought this cd, only because i wanted to get the classy remix of "Kinna Sohna"....fortunately the album turned out to be pretty good! The Kinna Sohna remix is really cool...great bass lines and an acid jazz feel. However i prefer the original version of 'Didi' rather than this one....the original seems to have more life in it. 'Mango, mango...' has wonderful horn arrangements and a great melody. 'Samba de flora' has some exceptional piano runs, done by the great Jorge Dalto...one of my favs on the compilation.The ramsey lewis piece has a groove/soul feel to it...while 'you're the one' has some great guitar work.tracks 5,6,8 and 9 were quite ordinary - nothing exceptional,....they are the kind one associates with 'happy' south american music with good beats. this is the only thing that kept me from giving this compilation 5 stars.All the other tracks are pretty good....I'd say a good buy!"
Excellent
Leonardo K. Shikida | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil | 05/04/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I bought because of Khaled's "didi" remix, but thw whole CD is precious! Excellent. Every DJ should have!"
Buy it for Track 10
Leonardo K. Shikida | 01/19/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I suppose it's not really fair. It's a compilation of various artists and all the songs are, at the very least, good. But....Jorge Dalto's piano on Track 10 (Samba de Flora) is way beyond good. It's great, it's beautiful to listen to. What a gift to be able to improvise like that. Would've been a treat to hear him live, in Rio. Oh well, next life."
Absolute monster disk
m_noland | Washington, DC United States | 11/19/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"from the deejays of a now defunkt south london club. man, i wish i had made it to that club. disk arranged geographically: start out in south asia (bally sagoo's mix of "kinna sohna" by ustad nusrat fateh ali khan, then to the north africa (funk club mix of "didi' by rai singer khaled, on to sub-saharan africa and the power-pop sweetness of "angelina" by the ghanaian highlife band sweet talks, across the ocean to latin america and brazilian percussionist airto's "samba de flora" and end up in the states with luther barnes and the red budd gospel choir doing "my god can do anything." and this disk nearly does everything."