Mushroom Jazz 3

Mark Farina | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Om Records
• ASIN: B00005A0JR
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,020 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #48 in Music > Dance & DJ > Big Beat
  • #68 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > Techno-House

Track Listings

1. California Suite (Vagabond Mix) - King Kooba

2. De La Bass (Mousse T. Def Mix) (Instrumental) - Raw Instinct

3. Vibrate - The Basement Khemist

4. De La Bass (Mousse T. Def Mix) (Vocal) - Raw Instinct

5. Relax Your Mind - DJ Presto

6. Taste Of Funk - Mateo And Matos

7. Dedicated - Dynamic Syncopation

8. Do It - Daddy's Favorite

9. Flirtation - Herb Alpert

10. Collage - Urban Backcountry

11. Jazz Cop (Mix: LP Version) - Gripper

12. Schooled In The Trade - People Under The Stairs

13. Seven Steps Behind - Polyrhythm-Addicts

14. Trackrunners - The Unspoken Heard

15. Do It - Mountain Brothers

16. Rock Box (Instrumental) - Que D.

17. Sneakin' - Jaffa

18. Streamline - Slide 5

19. Philadelphia - Bahamadia

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Continuing the highly popular Mushroom Jazz series, Mark Farina goes for late-night purple velvet and downtempo 2 a.m. atmospheres on this third installment, resulting in an electronic release for lounge lizards the world over. A basic hip-hop loop is the canvas throughout this 19-track mix, and on it Farina paints a series of smooth, sometimes shady but always sassy portraits that result in a thoroughly credible, electronically glazed slow-jam record. Opening with the wholly seductive cruise control of "California Sauce" by King Kooba, Farina goes on to introduce the silky-smooth, French lounge of Raw Instinct's "De la Bass," the late-night Manhattan flavors of Herb Alpert's "Flirtation," and the warm Philadelphia evening breeze of Slide Five's "Streamline." In deftly fusing jazz and hip-hop with downtempo beats, Farina has produced a mix that works for thoughtful driving, romantic evenings, and hip soirées. --Steffan Chirazi

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phattest Phungus Yet, March 21, 2001

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This review is from: Mushroom Jazz 3 (Audio CD)

Being a DJ of this type of music myself, I was looking forward to seeing what's been on Doctor Farina's mind for the last year or so. Needless to say, I wasn't dissappointed. The mixes on installment 3 are a little more sophisticated than the previous two. Concentrating more on "mood-mixes", this, in my opinion, is the phattest phungus yet. It's all typical Farina-style. Bringing back long-forgotten grooves that you heard ten minutes ago and blending with style (not as hurky-jerky as 1 or drawn-out as 2), it's just solid groove all the way through.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can it be done better than this?, May 27, 2001

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M. M. Davis "Matt Davis" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mushroom Jazz 3 (Audio CD)

I got into Mark Farina as a house connoisseur. I consider him to be one of the very best house DJs out there, and I try to catch his act live whenever possible.

I've only heard him play his signature "Mushroom Jazz" a couple of times. I picked up Volume 3 to get an idea of what he could do with a whole different genre of tunes.

It's flat out stunning. I'm a DJ myself, and I couldn't even *notice* many of the mixes. With a few others I could notice that they had happened, but couldn't pinpoint the beginning or the end. And with a very small few I could tell exactly what was happening; in these few cases, it occurred to me that it's amazing he was able to fit those two songs together at all, much less make it sound good (which he did). He's in a whole different realm of smooth, one most DJs can only dream of reaching.

Not only have I never heard these downtempo, jazzy tracks mixed better than this before; I have trouble believing that they *could*be mixed any better.

Buy it. Period.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Packed with variety and groovy to no end, December 25, 2002

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Keeper010101 (Savannah, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mushroom Jazz 3 (Audio CD)

This is one to get your foot tapping, your head nodding, and your body moving. Right off the bat, Mark Farina dips into jazzy house of his particular flavor. I have never really been much for house music, but this album really does it for me. The groove is in full swing, and the funky beats are jazzed up the gills. Prehaps something that belongs at a lively jazz restraunt, this album keys you into downtempo groove and keeps you there throughout the compilation.

Vocal samples from a recurring track are sprinkled throughout the mix. You dont catch it at first, but when youre halfway through the disc and it hits you again you can only do a double take at how much it does to pull the album into a unified work.

To say the track selection is varried is not enough. This mix pulls a huge number of songs together, and to have it still do justice to the individual track while adding to the full album is a feat in an of itself. When you have finished listening, you have the feeling of having completed a two disc set, and yet Mark gets it into one jamming CD. From housey groove beats to jazzed up downtempo funk to hip-hop MCing, this disc brings house together in a very unique way.

This is a staple album in that it might grab someone who is not into the genre and pull them in headfirst. It sure did for me. House wasnt ever my first choice, but this album had me doing double takes at just how well it can be executed. It sets the mood down superbly and guides you through Mark's world of jazzed house. If you are looking for a quality sample of house music's best, or if you are a house junky looking for a fix, Mark Farina has you hooked up. A very solid four, if not reaching five for some. It works for me in every sense, therefore getting a five.