Best of Mixerr Album Reviews! Page 212

Adam X - The Conflict single review

Adam X - The Conflict is one of the most overlooked and underrated techno singles out in music history. This is filled with that dark EBM industrial techno that Adam X is known for. The single was surely ahead of its time for 2005.

Rebellion in 2071 is a robotic techno song laced with extremely dark loud synths which will surely wake your neighbors next door! The beats are driven by a kick drum, snares, and hi-hats. This song is perfect to include in a hard or difficult level in a video game or an RPG. The song is perfect to play a nightclub during a rave.

Systematic Response is a distorted song which the synths were produced using a bitcrushed filter through a dynamic pass. The production quality is much lower on this song than all of the other songs. Systematic Response is an EBM techno song is laced with thin beats and dark loud synths.

Weapons of War is a military themed EBM techno song hence the militaristic approach and military vibe. The song uses loud pulsing synths that are dark of course since this is an Adam X recording. The song is filled with that dark EBM industrial techno sound. Treble setting have been fairly reduced. You can hear the explicit militarist words “weapons of war” and “weapons of destruction” as those are the vocal samples sprinkled throughout this song. The loud wailing horn is what sends this song into overdrive.

5/5*****!

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Beat Division ‎– The Feeling EP review

Beat Division ‎– The Feeling is a fairly unique garage house EP that got criminally overlooked during the rise of house music in the 1990s. This EP is known for heavily used samples taken from other songs from different genres of music. The songs are catchy and very addictive. The sticker advertises these songs as “fat tracks”.

The Feeling uses catchy synths mixed with beats that are considered to be very addictive. Catchy and addictive are two words that can be used to describe this song.

The heavy bass and vocal samples is what stands out about Who’s On Next?. Nice is one word to describe the song. The vocal samples came from The Underground Solution featuring Jasmine Luv Dancin (Remix) and Susan Clark - Deeper. Who’s On Next? samples Lil Louis - New Dance Beat, Susan Clark - Deeper, and The Underground Solution featuring Jasmine Luv - Dancin (Remix).

Who's Beats Are These? uses a hodgepodge of beats from different songs and different genres which is why you can hear samples. For example, Who’s Beats Are These? samples beats from Cajmere - Brighter Days (Underground Goodie Mix). The vocal sample came from Susan Clark - Deeper.

5/5*****!!

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Beat Division ‎– Beat Division EP review

Beat Division ‎– The Feeling is a fairly unique hip house EP that got criminally overlooked during the rise of house music in the 1990s. The EP is a fusion of hip hop and electronic music. Beat Division stepped up their game by not going the usual route by just sticking solely to electronic house music but chose to interpolate hip house music. The songs are catchy and very addictive.

The Funk uses filtered funk layered under electronic hip house music. Funk meets electronic house music on The Funk of course. You have groovy synths over an electronic soundscape back by several beats.

Give A Little will certainly have you dancing. The song is very catchy and has an addictive beat. Dance beats and tribal beats definitely make house songs catchy, infectious, and addictive. A bit of tribal house seems to have been added to the mix as you can hear bongos and djembes playin faintly in the background if you listen carefully. The song is perfect to play at night at a club. Catchy and addictive are two words that can be used to describe this song.

Heat For The Girls is song strictly dedicated to the girls on the dance floor.

Hip Hop Ska Bop uses a touch and fusion of reggae ska and hip hop blended in with electronic house music backed by a powerful rhythmic reggae organ is used all over the track. The song follows a beat of course.

5/5*****!!

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The Beat Division ‎– Feel It Tonight EP review

The Beat Division ‎– Feel It Tonight is a romance themed electronic house EP hence the songs Feel It Tonight,  Make It Right, and  Your Love Is Special. The Beat Division chose to do something different by using the theme of romance inside of their songs. That is why you can hear the romantic themes.

Feel It Tonight is driven by thick electronic beats and a strained vocal sample. You can feel the vibes and romance inside of this song. So get on down to the dance floor!! Now the beats are slightly processed as they seem to have been filtered.

Martin Madness uses a dash old school scatting. Similar to what you would hear in jazz music or blues. Catchy and addictive are two words that can be used to describe this song. However the song can be considered annoying to some people due to the repetitive nature of electronic music.

The beats on Make It Right much lighter and have a delicate feeling. Two words to describe this song are lukewarm and timid. Still Make It Right is one of their most amazing songs. The song Make It Right was played and DJ’ed by Mark Farina at the Sunset Boat Party in San Francisco back in 1997.

Your Love Is Special is one the songs that has a romantic theme. This song teaches us to appreciate romance as well. What stands out about this song is the use of vibraphones. Around the 1:08 mark in the song is where you start to hear vibraphones automatically playing. Vibraphones are what make this Beat Division song romantic. Beat Vision decided use a different musical instrument this time which obviously helped the mood and theme for this song.

4/5****

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Beat Division ‎– Live As One EP review

Beat Division ‎– Live As One EP is another hidden gem from electronic house music that is truly a gem. This EP is driven by beats and drums more than other releases in their discography. In other words this EP is more beat driven as evidenced in Drum Drop, Drum Drop Beats, and A Special Groove. Beat Division chose to stick to the usual electronic house route. Their songs are catchy and very addictive as always.

The cymbals kit used on My Brothers & Sisters samples the cymbal kits from Lil Louis - I Called U (The Story Continues) and Lil Louis - I Called U (A Series Of Events). The vocal samples come from Jerry Garcia Band - My Brothers and Sisters. Live As One (Dub) samples the same songs listed.  

Drum Drop uses several layers of beats and drums unsurprisingly. The sound and style is similar to a Techontronic song. The same goes for Drum Drop Beats.

A Special Groove is a top favorite among Beat Division fans due to the sampling. Here A Special Groove samples the horn parts from Candido - Thousand Finger Man. The song gets favorable acclaim among  Beat Division fans.

5/5*****!

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The Reynolds Number self-titled album review

The Reynolds Number self-titled album has music that would be suitable for a soundtrack in a movie. Think soundtrack music. However most of the songs fairly short. This album just needs to be longer to be enjoyable for a listening experience.

Follow You starts off with a soft piano sound not pop piano. The person on the track sound like Eddie Van Halen and Bobby Steele of Misfits. Follow You by The Reynolds Number has that traveling on the road feeling as if you're in an RV on a desert road. On some days it's hard to get up and eventually it will all add up. At night, two lovers will make love.

Awake is a track that sounds like it came from Moby as in the early Moby sound from 1991-1995. Awake is about staying up late at night and spending time together. Grow sounds a little bit more mainstream.

Grow is about a boy who is becoming a man. The song explains and explores growth from boyhood to manhood. The song explores the boy growing into a man. Good things are ahead of him in his path. As the Father said he would. The Father says, "Sit up, Brother. There's nothing I would never change." Even during all those years.

Aaji sounds a little bit more electronic. Aaji just needs to be longer.  All Fall Down is where the album really picks up. When It Begins picks up as All Fall Down did. Sleep Child Sleep is the same. Down The River Bed is a calm song. Prophet is a piano solo track.

5/5*****

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Tweet - Southern Hummingbird album review

Southern Hummingbird all based on the trials and tribulations of Tweet in what she had been through in life. Missy Elliott and Timbaland produced her album. You can never go wrong with Timbaland producing beats.

The story is that Tweet was in a 3 member group called Sugah in the 1990s and things didn't work out. Sugah’s album kept getting pushed back or the masters ended up missing. Only a few demoes of the group’s album are sent out. The group had only 5 songs such as Sugah and Spice, Fly Guy, Smokin’ In The Dark, and several other songs.

So Tweet went back to live with parents having a number of relationships and jobs. She had tried to commit suicide because she was going through severe depression at the time. In late 2000, she got a call from Missy Elliott saying that she wanted Tweet to work on Aaliyah's track with her. They knew each other since the early 90s when they were in DeVante's Swing Mob collab. Missy's call was the thing that saved her life. Missy wanted to sing and also a back up singer to replace Lil Mo, Gina Thompson, and Nicole Wray since they had all left to focus on their solo careers. So Tweet signed to Elektra in 2000.


Oops (Oh My) knocks down artistic boundaries in ALL directions because it talks about masturbation and having sex in bed. That is one cold track. Missy Elliott is on there too. This is a new school track. It blew everything else out of the water back in 2002.

Motel sounds like it was based on a true story. Tweet showcases her guitar playing skills on this song. The acoustic guitar is used on this heartfelt love song. Tweet goes solo on this song with no guest appearances.

Boogie 2nite is a dance track with pure old school funk and new school soul. This is one of those tracks that makes want to get up and dance. Boogie 2nite is an up in the club track for you to groove to and move your hips side to side to. Tweet goes solo on it.

Smoking Cigarettes is a slow timid guitar driven ballad. Tweet broke up with her man and the only way she could cope with the break up was to smoke cigarettes.

Tweet talks about if she had her boyfriend back she wouldn't complain at all on Complain. Susan Weems and Tweet both play the guitar. They both showcase their guitar playing skills on this long song. Complain is a great guitar ballad. It has a very country bluegrass feel to it which stands out from all the other songs on Southern Hummingbird with a gospel sound and feel. It's a 5 minute long song.

5/5*****!!

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Brotha Lynch Hung - Bullet Maker album review

Brotha Lynch Hung - Bullet Maker was a side project and digital album with and MadeSicc Muzicc that marked his comeback in 2016. Bullet Maker was his first digital EP for the 2010s era. Most of these songs were recorded before his contract with Strange Music was up. That is why he is seen on the album cover spring a silver Strange Music chain medallion.

You can expect to hear the siccmade gory horrorcore rap on this album from the rap Steven King. So expect things be eerie, disturbing, and dark. He gets very lyrical on this album also. The lyrics are smooth and on point as one would expect from the darkest storytellers in the rap game. Now that he is back in the game. His lyrical skill has not fallen off yet. Bullet Maker is one of his more lyrical albums in his discography and catalog. Now you’ll dig the production from Phonk Beta as he produced the beats for the album. His production is on point always. You can never go wrong with Phonk Beta on the beats. It’s a blessing to have Phonk Beta still gracing us with his mastery and production.

Now this album went under the radar despite being heavily promoted on the internet by Strange Music and MadeSicc Muzicc. However Strange Music and MadeSicc Muzicc could have done more to promote and advertise this album as many people seemed to have slept his album. Of course Bullet Maker is a MadeSicc project he did on the side.



The intro is quite eerie and haunting due to First Degree The DE’s presence. First Degree The DE displays his usual weirdness with his noises and lyrics. You know things are about to get siccmade when you hear First Degree The DE and Brotha Lynch Hung. A vocal sample from the movie Resident Evil is used during the intro. Anyone else notice?


Brotha Lynch Hung and G-Macc created a sick rap song that is tight called Ya Brains that has a sick beat. Brotha Lynch Hung and G-Macc are sick. Brotha Lynch Hung is still a threat them niggas out here with their lyrical skills. G-Macc graces the track with his lyrical skills and ability as does Brotha Lynch Hung. Lyrical skill is what makes this song stand out.

The song begins with a phone call. Below is what is said during the phone call.: I just got to the house, you know what I'm sayin'? Got the phone call, got all the information, you know what I'm sayin'? Had to run back to the car, pulled out the back of the garage, you know what I'm sayin’? Next thing you know.

Brotha Lynch Hung is watching and looking out for the police. The police are his meal. He sees their red beams. He is gangsterly known. His plan is to turn non-believers into believers. With the Colt Seavers of course. He’s a creep, keeper, and ripper. Notice the Jack The Ripper reference? He is doin' blows, blowin' on reefer.

Lynch kills people and cuts them up in little meat pieces. The lyrics “It'll be cheeper, get deeper then cut 'er up/Put 'er in the freezer/I guess you can call me the mad butcher/I got a little corner where I can put ya 'til it's time to eat ya/Beat beater, meat leaker, meat cooker, heat seeker/Meat eater, bleedin' your speakers with heaters/Smellin' up on premium, not a muthafucka see me/I’m a custodian, cleanin' 'em up, cleanin' 'em off” explain exactly how he kills people.

Lynch puts bullets in peoples brains. Watchin' them brains hang out after he pulls the trigger. Catchin' everything you sayin' like Randy Moss and runnin' with it. Low down and dirty with a four pounder. The game's curvy like James Worthy. The talk is nothin’.

G-Macc grabs his Calico .50 Colt which is his semiautomatic weapon of choice. He has a black duffel bag in leather gold that is empty. He aims his Calico .50 Colt at female’s throat. Here comes the grizzly part. Now she is lying there lifeless in a fetal position.Y’all wanna see some dead bitches? Listen to Mannibalector.


G-Macc the rap Steven King wrote a song about a vampire named Dracula which is what this song is primarily about. Dracula pays tribute to the British 1958 film Dracula. Bleezo plays the role of a vampire that comes from Sacramento, California called the Sacramento vampire. Brotha Lynch Hung plays the role of Mannibal Cannibal. G-Macc plays the role of the rap Steven King.

Now you’ll dig the production from Phonk Beta as he produced the beats for Dracula. His production is on point always. You can never go wrong with Phonk Beta on the beats. It’s a blessing to have Phonk Beta still gracing us with his mastery and production. His beats are raw and fit in perfectly with the esoteric hororrcore sound of course.

The song has that raw esoteric sound you would expect to hear from Brotha Lynch Hung. The lyrics are smooth and on point as one would expect from the darkest storytellers in the rap game.

You’ll dig the production from Tanqueray Locc too. Tanqueray Locc did some of the production and hooks also. His production is on point. Tanqueray Locc is a protege of Brotha Lynch Hung. Tanqueray Locc is now signed to the label MadeSicc.

Bleezo is the Sacramento vampire like Richard Chase. The Sacramento vampire is nocturnal and bloodthirsty. Like a fricking bat out of hell. He’ll slit your face with a switchblade. He hops into his whip and performs a quick escape. He’s sick alright.

Next he pulls a massacre by killing people as he runs them over in a Land Rover that is driven by him. An Acura is shot up in the process. Squeezing the knife like Lynch to see if there's life after death. You can call him Dracula.

G-Macc is the rap Steven King. He will have you “seeing things”.

He grabs the medieval weapons, pulls up at your spot, walk up the steps, and the porch light is on. So he walks around to the backyard quietly peeping in that window. 24 seconds later, he is in your bedroom. He ties you up on the sofa and kills you like a zombie. You’ll die in a minute.

So let's all get a sherm stick, walk around like zombies. It's so disgusting to where it'll make you throw up. He ain't with that soft shit.

He plans to kill all others that are still alive. They’ll die in a minute. He puts them on the sofa tied up and kills them. He then put the knife to the witnesses and cut off the lights. A stove heats up the oil. Then he fries them. A knife is used to cut through all that raw meat. Then the rap Steven King goes back to the garden. The lyrics “Cut through raw meat and I'm all evil like Kevin Mann and I saw people…” are a reference to these actions.

Brotha Lynch Hung is Mannibal cannibal. Mannibal cannibal is smoking cannabis. He is sinister.

This chainsaw massacre will be cutting up your afterburner. She dies. Then you die after her. Niggas heads getting blown up. Bodies in plastic. Then in a casket. He eats humans for dinner. This nigga is eating pussy for dinner. He chews those bitches. Fucking a dead body like you're fucking your main bitch. Afterwards that bitch is put in a ditch.

Still writing that heat even though he cannot smoke. Mannibal cannibal sniffs coke. That is no joke. He doesn’t want a Nutty Buddy peanut butter bar. These lyrics are a reference about how he writes his lyrics to his songs. “Still writing that heat nigga, even though I cannot smoke/My shit's and if you listen to my shit you probably think I sniff coke/Cause I do…”


Sleepless Nites deals with paranoia. The song has that raw esoteric sound you would expect to hear from Brotha Lynch Hung. The lyrics are smooth and on point as one would expect from the darkest storytellers in the rap game. Sleepless Nites is one of the highest songs on the album next to Ya Brains and Bullet Maker.
Brotha Lynch Hung gets very lyrical as he usually does.

These lyrics are an example of the paranoia inside of this song. “It’s always only me in life/I knew they never treat me right/In time I learn to keep a knife/And then there's them sleepless nights” You can tell by reading these lyrics that Brotha Lynch Hung gets very lyrical as he usually does. He hits this song off with his usual smoothness and siccness. So one can be too surprised with the end results.

These lyrics here are another example of the paranoia inside of this song.

[Intro: Tanqueray Locc]
...Me in life
I knew they'd never treat me right
In time I'd learn to keep the knife
and then there's all those sleepless nights

Brotha Lynch Hung is drunk off the Mad Dog 20/20. All stressed. He needs money. He already fulfilled his contractual obligations with Strange Music. What else do they want from him? He is faithful to the game like Kobe is to the Lakers. He could still drop a record in a second and still wreck shit.

Lynch does not need help from anyone else. The independent route is what he has chosen. That is his destiny. He is his own person. The lyrics show how Lynch is independent and doesn’t need help from anyone. “I don't need no help, I just go my own direction/Stay in my lane man, tired of people/Trying to give me all the game man, you're not equal” He’s a G when it comes to this rhymin’. His rhymes are as sharp as a diamond.

Lynch was on house arrest when he wrote this song as evidenced in the lyrics. “To this record I'm on home detention, I'm fucking pissed”

The lyrics here explain how he was an alcoholic at one time and his dependency on alcohol. “I used to think I had to drink, I can't live without one” and also “And if I finish this bottle I don't know how I'm gonna act/Up late, all night, like I'm smoking on crack” These lyrics refer to how bad his health is.  “Yeah, I've got a bad liver but I'll crack the yack”

He smoked six packs of cigarettes back to back. A semi-automatic is in the back of the Cadillac. He’s hella schizo and packing a pistol. Always in first place and never last. He needs shit too.


I Almost Got Away Wit It has that old school sound Brotha Lynch Hung fans have been craving and longing for at least decades. That raw rap sound. The beat is sick since Phonk Beta did the production.


The title track Bullet Maker is just as tight as Sleepless Nights. The subject matter is dark and horrifying. The song uses an enhanced piano which is actually a pianola. The musical notes played from this pianola are sustained with high modulation. Notice how chords echo under other instrumentation. Brotha Lynch Hung plays the role a serial killer called the South Side Bullet Maker in this song.

It’s not accidental that Brotha Lynch Hung took over the city of Sacramento, California like a black Frank Nitty. He killed a person and put them in a grave. Police found the body. They find Lynch alone inside a house with no lights where everything is pitch black. Having no lights to the point where everything is pitch black makes a suitable environment to hide his crimes. Police will be digging for clues at daytime.

He is about to flee town to avoid getting caught by law enforcement officials. They want him downtown. So now is the perfect time for him to leave town. Lynch is a psychopath. He kills people, puts them in a basket, and drops them in acid. Brotha Lynch Hung is the South Side Bullet Maker.

Leave them at the gravesite. They might be walking to their own funeral. He’s got a Dillon pistol ammo press and a rifle ammo press. He’s quick to pack a pistol.

Some fans compare Bullet Maker to being as good as Sleepless Nights. Some fans call Bullet Maker the best song off the album. Both Bullet Maker and Sleepless Nights are equally as great.
 

Outro is similar to Did It and Did It from the Loaded album due to the phone calls at the beginning and end. The outro is similar to a phonographic recording from the 20th century due to the static you can hear going on in the background.

5/5*****!