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V Classics, Vol.1: 10 Drum & Bass Tracks

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I love this cd! It is in my car disc changer right now! I was also lucky enought to hear this music live the night of. That's Right! I went to this Rave out in Los Angles at the Sports Arena the night of the New Year 1999! The party was Da Bomb with Bomb music. With AK1200 and others how can you pass this one up?

This album is all over the place, and everywhere it goes, it is excellent. From the funky and jazzy style of Roni Size, to the hardstep melancholy of Dillinja, this album has it all. I thoroughly love this album, and I spin it frequently. Highlights--well, they are all highlights--include: Roni Size's jazzy "It's Jazzy" (hence the title) and funky "Only a Dream", Krust's bumping "Blaze Dis One", and Die and Suv's elastic bass on "War and Peace". And as if this wasn't enough, there are also fantastic contributions from Lemon D, Ray Keith, and others. This album is a guide to some of the most revolutionary music coming out of the UK today.

One of the must own D'n'B compilation albums of the nineties featuring the original dons of drum 'n' bass like Goldie, Roni Size, and Dillinja(before he started making Clownstep! ). Just buy it, along with Vol. 2...Like the title says...Classics. Word up.

Jeez, this album isn't horrible but it's nothing to write home about. Most of the tracks on here are mediocre and, to me, don't justify being on a "classic" album. The included artists All have better songs from that time period. Contains the weakest Dillinja track I've ever heard. You can also hear where Roni Size almost figured out how to compose an entertaining song. If you buy this, get it cheap so you have money leftover for a coffee to keep you awake while you listen.

I'm sorry. I guess I'm the only one who hates this extremely boring, and very repetitive style of D'n'B. The artists spoon feed you the same pattern all the way through while cheesy sounds float around all over the place. All the songs on this cd make me dizzingly ill. The Ideas exist but they bore the heck out of you with the same thing over & over & over again, how uninteresting. And you people call that art? The music in itself all sounds very cheap. Please dont get me wrong cuz I love DB, but this stuff is just ridiculous. Altogether, It's just a darn shame drum and bass has to sound like this when we all know it has SO much potential.

Now, if you like D'n'B thats simply fun and yet artistic, get DJ DB's shades of technology. I listen to any music with some degree of artistic intelligence and that cd barely slides by alright. That should get your groove on and at the same time help you look at the many perspectives of D'n'B.