Bellydancing Breakbeats

Oojami | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ark 21
• ASIN: B00005Y23F
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,113 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Infectious and full of substance, August 20, 2002

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J. Bretz "b3zsgirl" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bellydancing Breakbeats (Audio CD)

I picked this up on a whim when I was teaching a beginner bellydance class to people who had no previous exposure to mid or near east music. I am not a fan of mindless repetitive electronica, but I needed something to introduce a steady beat. I was increadibly surprised. This is more than just mid east pop music with a backbeat. It is well constructed and the electronic components are well integrated into traditional Turkish sound and instruments. Infectious grove, but well constructed.

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Arabtronica at it's best!!, March 31, 2003

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Savannah Skye (New York City, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bellydancing Breakbeats (Audio CD)

Oojami - 'Bellydancing Breakbeats'...
I love Oojami's ingenuity in mixing Mid-East beats with electronica!!! I feel they are pushing boundaries in Middle Eastern music while retaining classic Middle East instrumentation mixed in with the electronica beats... Here's my breakdown track by track...
1) My fave track - hot Mid-East beats that keeps you moving from start to finish... I first heard it on "Bellydance Superstars"...
2) This is a trippy track I love that has some amazingly beautiful flute music floating over it at different interludes throughout...
3) This track serves up wonderful Mid-East beats over a constant danceable electronica beat with ethereal vocals interspersed throughout...
4) This track gets you moving from it's first beat to it's last...
5) This downtempo chill track has a beautiful vocal intro...
6) Another mello track with beautiful instrumentation blended perfectly with the electronica beats...
7) This track picks the beat back up a little with it's more upbeat ecstatic beats...
8) I love this track's breakbeat style that pushed Mid-East music boundaries... I heard it first on "Desert Roses & Arabian Rhythms II"...
9) A more ethereal downtempo breakbeat track to chill to...
10) This track serves up a d'n'b downtempo style to chill to...
11) This track continues pretty much in the same mode as #10...
12) This track picks the beat back up a little with it's more upbeat ecstatic beats with otherworldly vocals mixed in...

13) This is a very chill track with nice drumming underneath it...
14) This track has a very exotic intro into a more downtempo breakbeat mode...
15) This is a very beautiful ethereal chill track...

All in all, I loved this cd... It has a mixture of different style tracks - downtempo, fast dance tracks, chill out tracks - that all retain a Mid-East home base of beats/feel

...peace - Janice Foote aka DJ Savvy-NYC

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant fusion of breakbeat and middle-eastern flavors, September 13, 2003

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This review is from: Bellydancing Breakbeats (Audio CD)

Turkey's Oojami are absolutely at the top of the heap when it comes to integrating Arab and middle-eastern melodies, rhythms and textures into modern electronic breakbeat. Every track on this CD is excellent. Great dancing AND listening album. Can't wait for their next release.

Warning: May be inappropriate for American belly-dancing classes, LOL.