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Summary: BOOOOOOOOOO!
Comment: Almost every song needs to be cut in half. I understand where redundancy can be good in house music. but this album takes repetition to a new ridiculous level. tracks worthy of praise are 5 and 7. The production quality is awesome, but AVH needs to basically use 1 word instead of 5.
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Summary: Off the Charts!!
Comment: My friend burned me a copy of this CD and told me I would like it. After I heard it, I went out and bought myself a copy because I thought it was soo good! Honestly...this CD is BLOWIN UP!! It is a fuse of that old 80's Latin bass bomb mixed in with some fresh new school house. It is definitely worth picking up this cd...
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Summary: Best Armand Yet!
Comment: I absolutely LOVE this CD, the best one Armand has recorded yet, it has an 80's feel on the whole album but all the songs are great, upbeat and energetic. I bought this after hearing Kaskade's Bring the Night mix CD with NYC Beat on it by Armand and had to hear the rest of the CD and I'm glad I got it because it is wonderful.
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Summary: HAVE YOURSELF A GHETTOBLAST!
Comment: With 80's nostalgia being in full swing these days, AVH couldn't have picked a better time to drop this CD. The album is a facinating hybrid of hip hop, funk, house, techno and R&B. Eventhough this album was strictly recorded on the synth and drum machine, it makes up in inspiration what it lacks in musical substance and depth. This also turns out to be a well rounded set that's likely to appeal to kids in the hood as well as the burbs.
Ghettoblaster is a deep house set that's aimed towards the underground. Even when poppier songs pop up here and there ("Go Crazy" and "Still in Love"), it packs a considerable amount of punch that keeps it from sounding fluffed. The real standouts are the more aggressive sounding tracks "Touch your Toes" and "A Track Called Jack". "NYC Beat" is an interesting fusion of punk guitars and a house beat and "I want your Soul" comes through with great melodic sincerity that will make Chaka Kahn proud. Though this album got the 80's stamped all over it, AVH craft a set of tight beats that's more transcending than many of the beats produced in the 80's. In other words, it has the potential to age better overtime than other synth happy songs from the 80's.
While this is a sweaty set that's worth your dollars, it does becomes a victim of its own formula. Ghettoblaster is a very one dimensional album when you think about it. The album may have the tendency to bore you if you listen to too much of it because he uses the same production approach to almost every song.
There's a lot of tracks that's worth repeated plays, but its best appreciated when you're ridin' in your car ,throwin' a party, or club hoppin'. In spite of it repetitiveness, Ghettoblaster has enough boom to make Radio Raheem envious.
Another candidate for best album of 2007 and as cats in the 80's would say, this album is dope and in full effect!
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Summary: Party beats
Comment: Mix of house, hip-house (new & old), acid house, old school house, freestyle, b-more club, hint of electro, and vocal house...
Usual AVH quality!!!
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