Infected Mushroom - Converting Vegetarians [2003]
This album pounds some serious brain. The Mushroom seems to be evolving… into a full blown parasite that shoves itself deep inside… I can even hear it when I sleep. The mastery and technical influence on this release are unsurpassed, not even by the mushroom’s previous works themselves.
This album incorporates chant, lyrics, many instruments and a wide spectrum of high sweeping rifts of loose sound fortified by strong, rythmic pounding of extremely unique and tonal quality. The music stretches, grinds, oozes, pulses and shreiks in pretty much every frequency. Read more
Madonna - Hard Candy [2008]
Madonna’s eleventh, and final, studio album for Warner Bros., Hard Candy is a brilliant up-tempo collection that adds a hip-hop beat to the cultural icon’s club sensibilities, thanks to collaborations with Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, and Nate “Danja” Hills. Following her previous studio album, 2005’s Confessions On A Dance Floor, which debuted #1 and has sold more than 8 million copies around the globe, Hard Candy punctuates the first 25 years of the album career of the most successful female artist in history with a musical exclamation point. Read more
Xzibit - Restless [2000]
It’s only appropriate that Xzibit’s highly anticipated, and often-delayed, Restless concluded hip-hop’s millennial melting pot. After all, Xzibit’s association with Dr. Dre and his Aftermath regime attached very lofty expectations to Restless; X was publicly anointed as the next MC expected to blow up. Surely, with Dre as executive producer and guest shots from Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Dre himself, Xzibit was virtually assured of acquiring the mainstream success that eluded him on previous efforts (At the Speed of Life and 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz). Thanks largely to Dre’s knob-twisting input, Restless became aural kin to Dre’s own 2001 comeback vehicle, as the head-nod factor is immediately established on “Front to Back,” the heavenly synth stabs “X,” and “Get Your Walk On.” The main Read more










