MOS Presents Garage Classics

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5051275012828 Format: Box set Label: MOS Manufacturer: MOS Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: MOS Release Date: 2008-03-31 Studio: MOS
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Wicked garage Comment: Got this in the car 24-7. Love it some real sing a long tracks on here. Takes me back to my raving days. If you were not around back then and don't know any of these tunes its a must buy and if you want to remember the good old days then get a copy, you'll love it. Favourite track - Sweet Fa - Flowers. Customer Rating: Summary: Completely robbed. Comment: I bought this album before reading about it (and funnily enough read a poor review in the paper whilst at work that day).. got home, jammed it in the player and am gutted. The mixing is awful and often just cut from one track to another. Plus, the completely unoriginal tracklisting also adds to the lack of depth of this poor compilation. Whatever happened to the good old days when you could get a refund in cd's you had bought in the shop. Shockingly bad cd, MOS. Would advise to avoid! Even my 13 year old wanna-be DJ neighbout wouldnt be proud to have their name to this, how must MOS and the wideboys feel? Customer Rating: Summary: Not even good for the nostalgia........ Comment: The tracks selection on this compilation is lazy. All the typical commercial garage tracks are included with with only a small handful of surprises. The mixing is competent at best. The beatmatching is ok on the whole but some of the tunes that are mixed together are out of pitch and make for excrutiating mixing (the appalling mix of '138 trek' into the HLC's 'Superglue Riddim' was completely out of pitch and successfully butchered two of my favourite records)! The MCing included in the intro tracks is cringeworthy at best and pretty much fulfills every unfortunate cliche associated with Garage. Any MC that uses the phrase 'Okey Dokey' frankly deserves to be condemned to the fires of hell. Thouroughly disappointing and there are far better compilations out there that do the Garage scene far more justice. Customer Rating: Summary: Re-e-wind Comment: Back in 1996, the scene was first called Speed Garage, then it got called UK Garage when Artful Dodger made their presence heard, and now it's called bassline. Even though I loved Garage - I just wonder when this re-packaging of speed garage will end? Anyway MOS are as usual picking up on the market, a 3CD mix from acclaimed DJs The Wideboys - known to their mates as Jim Sullivan and Eddie Craig; they have been in the game since 1995 and know what they do well. CD1 is 2-step classics, like Doolally's playful yet childish "Straight From The Heart", with it's play school lyrics and easy going beats; Scott Garcia and the infamous MC Styles doing "it's a London thing", which to me is always going to be a classic: Indo's instant classic "R U Sleeping", with it's organ stabbing the dark atmosphere wildly. My favourite on here is Azzido Da Bass' "Doom's Night", it always send a shiver down my spine... CD2 is straight up 4 to the floor bassline stuff, like Kristine Blond's sexy "Love Shy"; MAV's "To Be In Love", also very attractive; Double 99's instant hit "RIP Groove", which still burns up dancefloors across the UK. My favourites on here include Todd Edward's rather uplifting "Saved My Life", his choppy beats and melody being very hypnotic and Tuff Jam's Experience, really it's US House, but we'll forgive MOS. CD3 is the new skool stuff, like H2Os "So What's It Gonna Be", with it's reminiscent style which doesn't seem to be too far from where it all started back in '96. There's also my favourite Benga track "Night", which reminds me of Azido Da Bass' work. This isn't a bad disk and is worth a good listen. Think it's going to grow on me. This isn't a bad collection from MOS: it's got a good selection of Garage classics, it's just the mixing - or the lack of it, which is rather letting down the side. It just feels the boys have not really been excited about the project, like they shoved it in Pro Tools and spliced it together. This is a pity, I like to see DJs mixing it up, backflipping records, doing those rewinds and even using equipment to morph (not too much though, it's annoying) - just seems to me they've just done a straight up mix, there's no play with the faders like 2 step DJs do: it's just a bit of a let down. Especially in this no name DJ mix period we're in now, I used to love getting CDs from Tuff Jam they'd mixed in the studio on 4 decks: felt so real. Pity, but that's the way the cookie crumbles I guess. Look at good old Tuff Jam stuff for good old mixes. More Reviews