Customer Reviews

Guetto Blaster

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I took a flyer on this CD as I've admired some of Van Helden's past work. I couldn't be happier with this CD. Start to finish, it's one excellent album with a little bit of everything.

Start to finish the album maintains a good pace and every song is a bit unique in it's bass line and vocal delivery. You know an album is excellent when you want to recommend listening to every song on it. I will say I especially love the closing tracks with "All Nite"'s freestyle flair and the pulsing house beat of "A Track Called Jack".

We need more albums like this.

I enjoy 80's music more than today's music so it was great to hear house mixed up with the old school. AVH did a great job and created many catchy songs that makes you want to dance.

My friend burned me a copy of this CD and told me I would like it. After I heard it, I went out and bought myself a copy because I thought it was soo good! Honestly...this CD is BLOWIN UP!! It is a fuse of that old 80's Latin bass bomb mixed in with some fresh new school house. It is definitely worth picking up this cd...

I absolutely LOVE this CD, the best one Armand has recorded yet, it has an 80's feel on the whole album but all the songs are great, upbeat and energetic. I bought this after hearing Kaskade's Bring the Night mix CD with NYC Beat on it by Armand and had to hear the rest of the CD and I'm glad I got it because it is wonderful.

With 80's nostalgia being in full swing these days, AVH couldn't have picked a better time to drop this CD. The album is a facinating hybrid of hip hop, funk, house, techno and R&B. Eventhough this album was strictly recorded on the synth and drum machine, it makes up in inspiration what it lacks in musical substance and depth. This also turns out to be a well rounded set that's likely to appeal to kids in the hood as well as the burbs.

Ghettoblaster is a deep house set that's aimed towards the underground. Even when poppier songs pop up here and there ("Go Crazy" and "Still in Love"), it packs a considerable amount of punch that keeps it from sounding fluffed. The real standouts are the more aggressive sounding tracks "Touch your Toes" and "A Track Called Jack". "NYC Beat" is an interesting fusion of punk guitars and a house beat and "I want your Soul" comes through with great melodic sincerity that will make Chaka Kahn proud. Though this album got the 80's stamped all over it, AVH craft a set of tight beats that's more transcending than many of the beats produced in the 80's. In other words, it has the potential to age better overtime than other synth happy songs from the 80's.

While this is a sweaty set that's worth your dollars, it does becomes a victim of its own formula. Ghettoblaster is a very one dimensional album when you think about it. The album may have the tendency to bore you if you listen to too much of it because he uses the same production approach to almost every song.

There's a lot of tracks that's worth repeated plays, but its best appreciated when you're ridin' in your car ,throwin' a party, or club hoppin'. In spite of it repetitiveness, Ghettoblaster has enough boom to make Radio Raheem envious.

Another candidate for best album of 2007 and as cats in the 80's would say, this album is dope and in full effect!

Mix of house, hip-house (new & old), acid house, old school house, freestyle, b-more club, hint of electro, and vocal house...
Usual AVH quality!!!

I like to dance, so when it comes to music, I am picky! I first heard the song "I want your soul" on a satellite radio station. I wrote it down, went home and ordered this CD. It's a good song, but the rest of the CD gets kind of old pretty quick. It's like the same beat and rhythms in each song... I would have bought the single if they had it; but other than that, the CD is not bad. If you happen to like the song that I described, I would search for it's single, instead of the actual CD, unless you like mindless repetition. Lol

Almost every song needs to be cut in half. I understand where redundancy can be good in house music. but this album takes repetition to a new ridiculous level. tracks worthy of praise are 5 and 7. The production quality is awesome, but AVH needs to basically use 1 word instead of 5.