Customer Reviews

Vol. 3-Mezzanine De L'alcazar

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As a big fan of deep house, acid jazz, underground hip hop, clubbed out jazz and chillout music, picking up the latest release of the Mezzanine was a no brainer.

The first volume set the stage nicely with both Dinner Time and Seduction Time mixed by Fabrice Lamy and Shade respectively. The Mezz was followed up with Volume 2 with very sexy and stylin new cover art. The music was again top notch. Fabrice Lamy and Chloe (regulars at the Mezzanine) provide your ears with aural love.

Finally Volume 3 hits the shelves, and took a listen last night in my ride. Damn good...each one gets progressively stronger. Check out the FIERCE beats found on track 4 disc 1 by RJD2....unbelievable smokin beats. Makes you wanna dance dirty with the nearest hottie.....onto some Seduction Time.....

GET THIS DISC, its totally worth every penny.

I acquired the CD recently and this is all I can say:

Mezzanine Volume 3 has definitely blown top pick compilations out of the water.

Two Discs- Dinner Time & Seduction Time- Once more Dinner time begins to marvel us with it's fine "gourmet" selection of down tempo and jazzy beats, definitely setting the moods towards enjoying the night out till it's time for another dosage of tunes that give the night it's perfectly seductive touch.

That's when Seduction Time enters as the night has barely begun to get going in the only way we know how to enjoy it: To the Fullest.

I sincerely recommend you get hold of this CD. Collections like this are definitely worth GOLD. It's a Top Notch Pick whether it's for having your own personal soiree at home, Enjoying the night on a Late night drive or just simply trying to find the "inner snob"in you.

Best of the Best

Album 2, Seduction Time is the better of the two albums. It has great rhythm and beat and won't dissapoint you in the car, beach, or jogging. I downloaded the album into my MP3 player and thus can have greater portability. I would give it 5 stars but album 1,Dinner Time is just mediocre at best or upgraded elevator music.

This album is must buy. My favorites include Midnight. The music is especially soothing and surreal when driving at night in a smooth lane.

Each of the 3 Mezzanine CDs are different in musical direction, and each has it's own follies, faults, fabulousness. But Mezz 3 is the most curious, by far.

I'm a great fan of this series, so my total and complete revulsion at listening to CD1 (DJ Fabrice Lamy) caught me off-guard. Is Lamy intentionally trying to sink the Mezzanine ship? I've never heard a more incoherent, uninteresting, and totally annoying mix in this genre of music. Words cannot describe how unappealling in every way is the first CD, "Dinner Time". My immediate reaction was to sail the CD out my back door. Wimpy vocals, distrubingly trite lyrics, and the most simpleminded musical selections pretty much sum up this travesty.

Now, about CD2....MON DIEU! Brilliance. Absolute brilliance, thanks to DJ Dyed Soundorom. It's hard to find ANY up tempo house / lounge mix as complete and seemless as this. It's BY FAR worth the price of both CDs to get just this ONE.... you really must.

After you've played CD 2 a couple of times, take joy in disposing of CD1 in whichever way makes you feel best (I suggest baking it in the oven at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, then bathing it in ice cold water...pop, crack, fizzle...)