Deeper Concentration 2

Deep Concentration (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 22, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Om Records
• ASIN: B00000AGLP
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,490 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #44 in Music > Dance & DJ > Turntablists

Track Listings

1. What It Is - Soul & JC

2. Interstellar Hydroponics - Apollo & Fluid Motion

3. They Don't Understand - Beat Junkies

4. Madhattan Bound - DJ Ming & FS

5. Ritual Of The Nile - J Boogie's Dubronic Science

6. The Cure For Stagnation - Siah & Yeshua DapoED

7. Demo Type Shit - Mass Influence

8. The Age Of Television - DJ Rob Swift

9. Get Up & Stretch - Intermission

10. Murder By Styntax - DJ Spooky W/ Organized Konfusion

11. Def Con - Saga & Mei Lwun

12. Brother In The Back - Ill Media

13. Schwartz Via Aghaarta - Mix Master Mike

14. Liquidized Language - Task Force

15. Yambooze - Push Button Objects

16. Wireless 2012 - Part 2

17. Course Of Action - Scratch Perverts

18. Eddie Def Land - Eddie Def

Editorial Reviews

18 Tracks - 1. JC & Sole - What It Is (3:24) 2. DJ Apollo & Fluid Motion - Interstellar Hydroponics (5:18) 3. Beat Junkies - They Don't Understand (3:06) 4. Ming & FS - Madhattan Bound (3:28) 5. J Boogie - Ritual Of The Nile (4:00) 6. Siah &

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super-funky mutant hip-hop at it's most raw, October 25, 1999

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Patrick G. Varine "Make beats, not war, haha..." (Georgetown, Delaware) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deeper Concentration 2 (Audio CD)

While it might not be quite as groundbreaking as it's predecessor, Deeper Concentration, Vol. 2 is just as innnovative as the first installment. This version places much more emphasis on rapping than the expanding instrumentals on the first volume. For the most part, the lyricists hold it down (the highlight being Siah and Yeshua DapoED's "The Cure for Stagnation"). A special treat comes in the form of "Liquidized Language," featuring a trio of British MCs who rip it just as hard as any Brooklyn head ever did. The instrumentals are also mind-blowing at times. J-Boogie's "Ritual of the Nile" is probably the best track on the whole disc, using an Indian melody and building it into a funky percussive jam. This CD has it's downfalls, though. While the idea behind Rob Swift's "The Age of Television" is great, the music backing the sample timeline is mediocre at best, as is the syncopated piano boredom of Mass Influence's contribution to the album. But for the most part, innovation + technique + Technics = Deeper Concentration, Vol. 2... pick it up.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A head-nodder with sonic complexity, November 26, 1999

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L. Clotman (Philly, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deeper Concentration 2 (Audio CD)

This is the future of hip hop. Musical fusion, without pop simplicity. Here, you'll find some of the world's finest DJs and DJ crews mixing vocal and instrumental samples with some original beats to create the progressive hip hop sound you've been searching for.

If you like the Invisibl crew, Beat Junkies, Z-trip, Shadow, DJ Craze, Primo, material from the Return of the DJ series Rob Swift and the rest of the X-ecutioners, you'll love this. If you've never heard of the aformentioned, then you're probably not ready for this album.

I especially like the big band sound from track 4 (or is it 5?) combined with that big beat. Lovely. I promise you, this purchase will be money well-spent.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars proverbs for lacey racecar drivers backwards., August 19, 2005

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Michael De (St Andrews, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deeper Concentration 2 (Audio CD)

This mix makes no sense. How can someone put together a compilation with such mastery and sheer genius and not be awarded something far greater than a measly Nobel Prize? Each cut on this CD will have you pinching your nipples and running from the cops with a backpack full of spray cans. And if your parents catch you coming home late at night with a bag full of rattling cans, if they've heard this mix, they will understand. You will bond.