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Breakbeat Era (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 9, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Winds
• ASIN: B00003Q4ID
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #863,985 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
1999 debut from trio comprised of Roni Size, DJ Die and Bristol-based singer/ songwriter Leonie Laws. A collection of hard-edged funk tracks with deep down & dirty vocals, it prompted Ed Rush to say 'You know its going to be the massive future sound'. Eight tracks. Comes packaged in a gatefold slipcase with an old fashioned book binding on the spine & the disc in an attached protective sleeve on the inside.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW, - A TOP CLASS ALBUM BY TOP CLASS PRODUCERS, October 13, 2001

By	experimusicdotcom "experiment with music" (united kingdom) - See all my reviews

There are very few albums i have (and i have 400+), that you can listen to all the way through and not skip a track but BB-ERA is one of those few albums.

I am a fan of most of Roni Size's work and i love the way he is so varied combining Acid Jazz, Intelligent D'n'B, Hip-Hop, Breakbeat and Jungle into his albums. I fully recommend Both of his albums as well as his Through the Eyes compilation.

For me, this was a very highly anticipated album, but it fully lived up to my expectations (and then some). The best tracks on this brilliant album are tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 13 and 15. Track 7 bucks the trend and is an out and out jungle track, (in fact one of the best i've heard). Apart from tracks 1 and 7, the rest all have vocals provided by Law. They, like Portisheads Beth Gibbons are a acquired taste, but i feel they blend in beautifully with the background music.

The music sounds very grimy, almost industrial and verge's on the darker side. I've heard complaints about the album being to similar but i like that there is a familiarity about it. I just can't wait for news on a new release. Its been 2 years.

I fully recommend this album, along with Lamb, Portishead, Dillinja and Aphrodite.