Bargrooves Metropolitan

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Kinkysweet
• ASIN: B00074CBX8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #323,166 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Little Big Bee ‘Searchin’ (Atjazz remix)’ (Yellow Productions)

2. Physics ft. Alexandra ‘Don’t Deny Me Love’ (Deeplay)

3. Soldiers of Twilight ‘City Life’ (Serial Records)

4. East West ‘East West Connection (Club mix)’ (Chillifunk)

5. Reel People ‘The Light (Copyright Classic mix)’ (Papa Records)

6. Baeka ‘Soul Exp.’ (Deeplay)

7. Sanki Panki ‘Waiting 4 U’ (Serial Records)

8. Karma Fever ‘This Love’ (Cyclo Records)

9. Astro ‘You Spin Me Round (Instrumental mix)’ (unsigned)

10. Crafty Pear ‘Ritmo Sensual’ (Pear Music)

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Reel People ‘Butterflies (Restless Soul mix)’ (Papa Records)

2. Audiowhores ‘After the Party’ (Soulfuric)

3. Soul Avengerz feat. Krysten Cummins ‘It’s Alright’ (Realbasic)

4. Lisa Millet ‘It’s Alright (Jamie Lewis Funky Mix)’ (Purple Music)

5. Soul Magic ‘Soul Magic (Miguel Migs remix)’ (Trust Music)

6. Barbara Mendes ‘Got To Be in Love’ (Wave Music)

7. Soul Avengerz ‘Latino Sol’ (Soul Avengerz)

8. Danny Marquez/Ferry B ‘Afrocatalans (Hardsoul mix)’ (Defected)

9. Identity ‘Gave Me Love (Soul Avengerz mix)’ (Identity)

10. Hardsoul ‘Back Together (Seamus Haji remix)’ (Defected)

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Following on from the Mimosa collection, bargrooves continues with the ‘taste and tastemakers’ quartet, to bring you Metropolitan – the perfect soundtrack to the early evenings of winter. This time, bargrooves resident DJ, Ben Sowton, has invited the Soul Avengerz to guest mix CD2. Ben turns in a beautifully melodic mix, with highlight tracks and mixes from Atjazz, Physics and Soldiers of Twilight while The Soul Avengerz up the tempo a little with a mix that fits right in with the bargrooves vibe. Their mix includes some of their own exclusive material and remixes, as well as tracks from Wave, Soulfuric, Defected and Susu. The Bargrooves series is world-respected for its international cocktail of style and sophistication. Metropolitan follows in that tradition with a double disc set of deep sexy grooves.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hit and Miss, January 21, 2006

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Donna Graves (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bargrooves Metropolitan (Audio CD)

This is the second "Bargrooves" compilation I bought--the first was "Cosmopolitan", which I like a lot because it's mellow while still having nice energy. Great ambient music. "Metropolitan" definitely has more energy, at least on Disc 2. No way you can just sit still with the R&B-flavored mix on Disc 2, which means it's not so good for background music but it's great for dancing or working out. Techno and other music like that seems kind of bombastic to me, so it's great to find some danceable music that has energy but is not overpowering.

Disc 1 has a couple of songs I really like--Physics' "Don't Deny Me Love" and Soldiers of Twilight's "City Life". I can play these two over and over and not get tired of them. They're songs 2 and 3. After that, Disc 1 seems to lose steam. It has some songs that I really dislike, the ones with whispery guys singing on them. I mean Baeka's "Soul Exp.", Karma Fever's "This Love", and the worst of the bunch, Danny Foster's "You're So Fine", which has bad poetry read in a very annoying way. Sorry, I don't mean to get so negative, I guess it's just a matter of taste. Anyway, I definitely have to skip past most of the second of half of disc 1. But on the whole, it's a decent compilation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mixed bag, but worth it, October 5, 2005

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bora bora beats (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bargrooves Metropolitan (Audio CD)

The Bargrooves collections have represented a very consistent offering of sexy, "daddy" house tracks. Never banging, always grooving and upbeat with a few gems that get your head nodding. This set, however, leaves me with mixed feelings. Ben Sowton's first disc presents few tracks exciting or representative of his earlier work. The only standout track is Astro's `You Spin Me Round'. In contrast, the Soul Avengers put together such a fantastic summer fun / dancey / all around good-time vocal house package, I heartily recommend the purchase, if only for just the second disc.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Disc 1 Shines! Not a bad track on either disc., May 14, 2005

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J. Padgett - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bargrooves Metropolitan (Audio CD)

These days if it isn't on iTunes I'm highly unlikely to buy it...I always end up liking only a fraction of the songs on any given CD and I hate all the packaging crap. But I make an exception for the Bargrooves CD's. The first one I picked up was "Espace Prive" and it blew me away. I have played both discs dozens, if not hundreds, of times and rarely skip a song. While I wouldn't say Metropolitan is as perfectly concocted as Espace Prive, it's pretty darn close. I prefer the nu-jazz elements of Disc 1 to the vocal-laden house of Disc 2, but I enjoy both discs. Trust me, if you like your grooves tight and smooth with a euphoric twist, you'll be playing this one nonstop.