Nu Breed 3

Steve Lawler | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 24, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Nu Breed
• ASIN: B00004Y7XC
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,277 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Acidfire-Crowt

2. DBD-Dan Robins

3. Especiale-Fresh & Low Productions

4. Twisted-2 Boys 1 Girl

5. Peptide Bass-Drumscape

6. Arriba, Abajo-Matthis 'Matty' Heilbronn

7. Love You Some More-Cevin Fisher Ft. Sheila Smith

8. Hifi Freaks-Wizards Of Ooze

9. Only You-Basco

10. Reap What You Sow-Menace

11. Orgasm-Erotica

12. From Here To Eternity-Giorgio Moroder Versus Danny Tenaglia

13. Answering Machine-Green Velvet

14. Feel It-DJ Pippi

15. Sex On The Beach-Tantric

16. Elements-Danny Tenaglia

17. Feel My Drums-Peace Divison

18. Treaty-Yothu Yindi

19. Voices-Funky Junction/K.C. Flight

20. Outside Looking In (Down)-Xzique

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars steve strikes gold, October 22, 2000

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"tryptone" (dallas, tx, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nu Breed 3 (Audio CD)

after all of the hype i've heard surrounding this release, my hands were shaking as i unwrapped this 2 disk set. i popped it into my cd player, and right away i was floored. steve lawler does an amazing job of staying true to his intuition and lays out a great slab of chunky tribal house, taking the vibe that digweed explored on the second half of the first disk on his sydney gu set and letting it simply explode in a calm expression of controlled fury. this album is a deep steaming set of dark tribal house, much like tenaglia, but i think lawler does a better of job of providing quality tracks in succession, with no boring time-filler anthems to skip. this mood runs from deep and dark to groove-laden bass, but it's the precision and patience that lawler exerts that finally hooks you. definitely not a set for fans of seaman and oakenfold, but rather for those who revel in seas of percussion and minimalism, with amazing technique to boot. a true inspiration for dj's like me, and a definite winner any way you look at it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tribal Nubreed, December 27, 2001

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The God "houserat" (Syracuse, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nu Breed 3 (Audio CD)

Well people, this will be the last review for 2001 and I'm happy to say it will end on a good note. Steve Lawler takes the helm with his Nubreed Global Underground edition. This is yet another of the tribal house renditions by the current king of the tribal house genre.

I'll start out by saying although these are two nice sets, they were just a little mild. Although these sets are deep, they didn't consistently deliver the type of cuts that demand you get on the dancefloor. Not to fret though, as you still get plenty of good music for you hard earned dollars with a total of just over 140 minutes of music. The mixing is good and the beats are deep. Again, my only complaint is that the music selection is a tad bit mild and lacks the bangin' tracks that sell good sets.

CD1 starts out excellent with some real funky, deep tribal house. After the intro and the first cut I had the feeling this was gonna be a really tight set. Unfortunately this set jumps out of the blocks quickly but fades in the end. As the set moves along the beats become less aggressive and towards the end takes on a mellow tribal feel. My cuts of choice are "DBD", "Especiale", "Twisted", "Peptide Bass", "Hifi Freaks", and "Reap What You Sow". This set clocks in at over 73 minutes and is the better of the two. CD1 gets 4.5 stars.

CD2 starts out the same way set 1 ends, slow! That style worked in set 1 but really sets up the second set for a mild and uninspiring mix. Some of the cuts are good and others are filler music. I just never got into the second set like I did the first. Even though set 1 loses its attraction towards the end, it really keeps you going for the first 10 cuts. This set here never really captures my interest for more than two tracks in a row. My cuts of choice are "Treaty", "Outside Looking In (Down)", "Mangamania", "Beats & Drums EP", "Groundworks", and "Fever". This set clocks in at over 68 minutes and lacks the continuity of the first. CD2 gets 3.5 stars.

This is not a CD I'd recommend to a house music beginner. If you're currently looking to expand your house music collection then you might want to give this a try. Personally I liked Dark Drums Vol. 2 better, but for the amount of music you get these CDs make for a good deal. If you're looking for the funky house such as Roger Sanchez or Erick Morillo then look elsewhere. Looking for Tribal house, then get with the Steve Lawler connection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Well mixed tour of tribal house, but a deplorable tracklist, May 18, 2001

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Christopher Culver - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nu Breed 3 (Audio CD)

Steve Lawler is one of the newest DJs to make it big in the House scene, and his brand of house and tribal percussion have garnered him comparisons with Danny Tenaglia. Nonetheless, Lawler shows he has a long way to go before reach anywhere near the great Danny T's level of talent. On this, his mix for Boxed Record's NUBREED Global Underground series, Lawler displays his clumsiness.

Disc one starts off with an unpleasantly Pro-Tooled and shamelessly self-lauding introduction with Crowt's "Acidfire" quickly mixed into Dan Robins' "DBD." The set starts off low, and meanders for some time before reaching any sort of energy with the overplayed "Arriba, abajo" of Matthia "Matty" Heilbronn. The set manages to sustain a building feeling after that, but any sort of excitement is blown apart by Green Velvet's "Answering Machine." As superb as this track is (it's definitely a House classic), *it does not work where Lawler places it*. I can't imagine him being happy with where he drops this track. It nearly disintergrates the listener's interest.

Disc two has a slightly better tracklisting, but suffers from severe pointlessness. Lawler opens up with Tantic's "Sex on the Beach," but the Latina's voice is infuriatingly annoying and doesn't compare to the wonderful "sleaze-house" of Tenaglia. Worse yet, Lawler ruins one of Tenaglia's best tracks, "Elements," by mixing through the most uneventful section of that driving track. The following Peace Division track doesn't go anywhere. The disc picks up energy with Yothy Yindi's "Treaty," but none of the tracks seem to join forces to bring the listener anywhere. Satoshi Tomiie's "Up in Flames" almost saves the day, because I'm a sucker of Tomiie's deep-house (don't tell anyone), but after that Lawler wastes the rest of the disc on go-nowhere percussion.

This effort's tracklisting is the worst I have *ever* heard an a Global Undergrown mix, and that's unfortunate because there are some great tracks here. The mixing's excellent, but on gets the feeling that Lawler was *really* good friends with Studio ProTools.

This is the lowest point of the NuBreed series. Get Anthony Pappa's (amazing, the future of house, he's up there with Sasha!) or Sander Kleinenberg's NuBreed mixes instead.