Customer Reviews

Buddha Bar X

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I own the entire Buddha Bar collection and they are all great and unique! At times both CDs are good or one is better then the other. With Buddha Bar, Vol. 10, I find CD1 is better then CD2 but still a GREAT buy!

I have read previous reviews that indicate the music is not relaxing. These are NOT Buddhist meditation CDs, IT'S LOUNGE MUSIC and WORLD MUSIC! If you like lounge music and world music, then you'll love Buddha Bar.

At last Ravin has returned to what really works with these Buddha Bar CDs--WORLD Lounge Music. There are plenty of regular lounge, chillout, dance CDs around, but I count on Buddha Bar to bring in that Parisian sound from around the world. The remixes are excellent, especially the one by Sia. As usual, however, I really like CD 1 MUCH better than CD 2 (which gets thumpy and dancey). I would rather dance to global beats than a "house" beat...

All in all, WAAAAY better than the last one which was only dance music.

AFTER BB THREE THE INFAMOUS GEORGE V EURO COMPILATION
RELEASES SEEMED TO STRUGGLE WITH WHAT DIRECTION THEY
WANTED TO TAKE US IN - RAVIN TISAN HAS CLIMBED BACK INTO
THE DRIVERS SEAT WITH BB TEN WITH A SOLID SELECTION OF
CUTTING EDGE WORLD INSPIRED LOUNGE TRACKS WORTHY OF
BUDDHA BARS ORIGINAL SUCCESFULL CONCEPT.

WHAT PREVIOUS RELEASES, NAMELY BB 4,5,7 AND 8 LACKED WAS
BALANCE RESULTING IN WEAKNESS ON DISC 2 OF EACH RELEASE.

RAVIN HAS EXCELLED THIS TIME WITH B B 10 WITH A SUPERB
MELANGE OF UNIQUE CUTS WORTHY OF HIS PREVIOUS
REPUTATION.

NITAN SAWNHEYS SONGBIRD AND THIERRY DAVIDS SONG OF
FREEDOM TAKE US ON A JOURNEY THROUGH 21ST CENTURY
ASIA - THE BRILLIANT SAMO ZAENS TONIGHT AND SHANTELS
IMMIGRANT CHILD SWEEP US THROUGH THE MIDDLE EAST -
DOWN TO SOUTH AMERICA WITH BIBO BESTS LIFE IS ON THE
SEA AND POCHILLS VIOLET THEME WITH EVAN THE COLE
PORTER INSPIRED TONGUE IN CHEEK KIX FROM THE REAL
TUESDAY WELD KEEP THIS BUDDHA POT BUBBLING.

THE REAL GEM FROM B B TEN HAS TO BE THE BEST REMIXED
ROCK CLASSIC I HAVE EVER HEARD WITH DJ DISSES STUNNING
AND REMARKABLE BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE
BY THE DOORS - THIS RELEASE IS WORTH IT JUST FOR THIS
TRACK - " ARE YOU IN " OOOH YEHHHHHHHH.

WETHER YOUR HAVING DINDIN - MEDITATING - DRIVING -
PAINTING - WORKING OUT - MAKING LOVE - SAILING -
BLOGGING - OR STRUTTING YOUR STUFF DOWN A MILAN
RUNWAY BUDDHA BAR TEN WILL ENHANCE THE EXPERIENCE.

ON A SCALE OF ONE TO TEN - TEN IS AN EIGHT.

BUY IT OR FLY IT - DEFINITELY BUY IT - ARE YOU IN -PC-LA.

after the fall of Hotel Costes and Cafe Del Mar , here comes the Buddha Bar series...

can't understand how people are giving this 5 stars...

Ravin has clearly EXHAUSTED all his magic music (that was heard on volume 3, somehow volume 6/7 and the Siddharta series)

they need a NEW DJ (Popat started well on volume 8) or maybe more of David Visan ( all his volumes, vol 4 and 5, were excellent including the Chill in Out Paris series) - he was the only one (besides Claude Challe of course, the godfather of all) who truly mixed eastern asian, indian, middle-eastern/arabic, african, european/french and latin music (or what we currently call World Music)

i give it 2 stars because of the initial tracks on volume 1 (that are acceptable) and some other scattered ones (get up carmen, sahib balkan ...)

Forget it, even if you are tempted to buy it I strongly advise you don't. Of the 10 Buddha Bar collection CD's this is by FAR the worst. The musci selection seems to be from elsewhere, this cd does not sound like BB. Horrible, it will NOT grow on you! you will hear it 100 times and you will still dislike it.

I am a regular guy who listens to Buddha Bar type stuff, Claude Challe and the like, with no partcularly sophisticated background or training. To me when reviewers say "IT'S THE WORST" they are simply saying, really, "I did not like it as much as the others." It is OK for you to not like it, but when you set yourself up to say ANYTHING beyond your opinion and try to establish FACT then you are really just blowing wind, sorry.

I like X more than most. Not sure why. It is just really cool. I would recommend the hell out of it and I have no reason to tell you that other than I would like others to tell ME what they found really cool without flapping their gums about an area of taste and trying to make it science or something. Dude, it is music. Like it, or don't, but don't sound so goddam self important.

I 've heard it many times trying to catch the spirit of this volume, but it isn't as goog as the previous ones. CD 2 is not strong enough as it usually is, it doesn't reach to that point.

I was really disappointed by this CD, the selection was really bad. The 2nd Cd is worse than the first one, the 1st one is a little better but they are both bad comparing to the previous ones!

Major ..minor keys...........wow!!
Well worth the price.Get Up... Carmen - Waldeck _ blows me away..I'm off to buy Waldecks gramaphone now.

I love nearly all genres of music and own 5 of the 10 BB releases and had been very much looking forward to this release. I was prepared to listen with an open mind, but was extremely disappointed in all but one of the tracks on BB 10. If you can imagine previous BB releases morphed as elevator "muzak", you might get a general idea of this release.

Trust me, don't waste your time or money on this one.