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| | Dead Ringer | | | Music Artist : | | Rjd2 | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Definitive Jux | | Release Date : | | 2002-07-23 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. The Horror
2. Salud
3. Smoke and Mirrors
4. Good Times Roll Pt. 2
5. Final Frontier
6. Ghostwriter
7. Cut Out to FL
8. F.H.H.
9. Shot in the Dark
10. Chicken-Bone Circuit
11. The Proxy
12. 2 More Dead
13. Take the Picture Off
14. Silver Fox
15. June
16. Work
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Impressive but uneven
Submitted on: 2009-07-23 |
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| Fine hip-hop inflected electronica works best in its beginning streak when sampling heavy soul on gritty rap beats, but falters in identity when actually catering to hip-hop heads on roughly half the disc where RJ plays second fiddle producer to underwhelming emcees. |
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 YESSSSSSSSS
Submitted on: 2006-11-11 |
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| It is new and old, calming and at the next moment exciting. It is art that you experience. It sets a mood, leads you on a journey. It is music for meditation, for making love, for dancing, for cleaning the house. It is great! You will love it if you love DJ music, dance music, or Jazz. It combines so many things together but with smoothness. This album makes its very imaginative combinations seem natural. |
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instant classic
Submitted on: 2006-08-07 |
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I discovered this CD in a local music store. I had never heard of RJD2. I picked this CD up on a whim and was very pleased with it. I have been a fan of Moby, DJ Shadow and all of the other DJ's and producers that RJ has been associated and compared to. With that being said, RJ sounds NOTHING like Moby. There are some tiny similarites, but they are not in the same class of style or genius. DJ Shadow and RJ don't really sound anything alike, at all. I don't see the comparison.
Being a producer/music creator myself(not a DJ), I can appreciate the style and creative force that RJD2 wields like an iron sceptor. Each song is crafted and laid out with tight beats and awesome production. All of the reviews on this spot seem to classify RJ as this or that. WEll, to be honest, he has his own style, RJ style. It sounds like no one else.
RJ seems to enjoy using samples, but his creative energy shines forth. This album is more "hip hop" oriented,, even featuring a few emcees who rock the mic right. I love this cd and I would recommend it to all who enjoy tight beats. |
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For those who love to discover new music, and to add to your classics...
Submitted on: 2006-06-19 |
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By classics, I mean every album in your collection. Obviously, to you they are classics.. Otherwise what the hell did you buy them for right?
Having recently discovered this thanks to the site - Having been an obsessed fan of Shadow, Krush and Cam before, during and after their 'hey day' since in the US they never got recognized. I became and discovered the underground... meaning big on music that mainstream definately has never heard of at all....nor intention of ruining thank karma.
RJ definately shows that he has skill as a DJ. If you buy The Horror Remix disc, (which like another reviewer said is basically an album in itself) you can watch first hand on the DVD as he raws (awesomely performs) it live on the second disc.
The two tracks with rappers are good. I've never liked rap for rap. But when it stays true to the origin, like this - a dj and 2 mc's... The mc's tell a real story, or they express their hearts in rap forms. There's no clapping and sugarcoating to get the azz up like today. The lyrics are real, it screams out for attention but it craps on the mainstream like everything should be.
The instrumental tracks vary a lot. Sure they keep a solid hip hop flow as far as the beats go, which is good... but some tracks have a little too much of the vynl over dubbed over his created add ons...Songs like 'Good Times Roll' for instance. It's normal though if you're big on sampled music. If you're deep with music and find a flow in a piece of the song than it won't bother you. But the song is repetitive. No breakdowns or breakouts like the lead off track or the big break in 'Smoke N Mirrors."
The Hip hop tracks are reminiscent of DJ Cam's rap tracks. Samples all over the track dubbed with a spitter literally pardoning the French.
Now my big problems with the CD... The tracks that I really dig, like "Shot in the Dark" - an old gangsta western track with a voiceover sample is only a minute and 21 seconds. The tracks I'm all over are the fade in, and fade out... why the artists always do that I don't know. Maybe its financial ties with pushing the disc out the door and it's an unreleased track.
I've done that a few times with some of my tracks, but I loved it, and just couldn't build off of them....
If you are new to this 'genre' then I say welcome, hope you like and venture into discovering more. But to be honest, RJ is the closest thing to Dj Shadow (not UNKLE) than Mr. Obtuse (look him up on myspace) and that's it.. And I spend everything on music. 10-05-06=$268.44 look at my profile for proof...
The review sucks but hey.. If you know what to expect when you hear the clips, than you know you will like it. I did, and I do. If you buy old cd's because they are new to you, yet published 3-10 years ago than go for it. Obviously today has gone awry and anybody who is real unlike cable television and source awards can tell you... Go get this disc. Hell.. Kanye would like it... so what's that say? |
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 Nice
Submitted on: 2006-05-04 |
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| Rjd2 is nice, but a number of his songs tend to follow a very similar run down chord progression, and there's the feeling that some of the songs didn't sound all that different in their original non-sampled form, more so on this album, less so on the following. (Which granted could be taken for masterful sample blending, but i think not.) Though, they're good songs. If i were to rate them on their production/sampling originality, i'd have to go 3 stars, but i'm going to rate them on their good songness factor. |
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