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Advantages: Good beats
Disadvantages: Bad Language

The Documentary is the best West Coast street-rap album since DJ Quik's 2002 LP Under tha Influence. All of the G-Unit solo albums thus far have been aesthetically unified, a rarity in hip-hop; the tracks on The Documentary actually sound like they belong on the same album. Dre produces five of the album's 17 songs, applying his recent stripped-down cinematic style, and many of the record's other producers follow his lead. Superstar beatmakers like ...
...fitting their usual approaches into the album's fabric. The end result is a rich, triumphant sonic tapestry; you can hear every dollar that went into it. The Game is not a particularly singular rapper. His hoarse, guttural voice doesn't possess any of the relaxed menace of classic West Coast rappers; he sounds more like Tha Dogg Pound member Daz Dillinger than Eazy or Snoop or The D.O.C. He has an appealing confidence and an unforced lyrical toughness, ... Read review

Advantages: no 50cent the game is evolving in to 1 of the best rappers in the world
Disadvantages: no dre beats

...ONE NIGHT 7/10 DOCTOR'S ADVOCATE 9/10 OL' ENGLISH 10/10 CALIFORNIA VACATION 8/10 BANG 9/10 AROUND THE WORLD 8/10 WHY YOU HATE THE GAME 9/10 this is a good album. Dr. Dre and the rest of the Aftermath crew (except for Busta Rhymes) are notably absent, but you don't miss them so much. None of the beats here are as good as the best from the Documentary, but most of it's still pretty good anyway. Meanwhile, the Game has become one hell of a rapper, ... Read review

Advantages: Awesome Tracklisting, Great Flow
Disadvantages: None

...fans out there will know Above and Beyond and will probably know they are behind the AnjunaBeats label. Well this album was released to celebrate the 100th release on Anjunabeats. This album is 2 CD's showcasing the best Anjunabeats releases out of those 100, so naturally there are some excellent tracks on this album, some of the best include - Helsinki Scorchin by Super8 & Tab, the beautiful Alone Tonight by Above & Beyond and (one of my favourite ...
...Andy Moor. The 1st CD is very good but even better - the whole 2nd CD of this album is brilliant! With not one bad track, it has an excellent flow to it starting off with some smooth chilled trance and working through the a cracking finale. This album is a must for any Trance fan. :-) ... Read review

Advantages: 2 CD's, Good Flow, Excellent Tracks New And Old
Disadvantages: None

Lange has been around for a long time now (Remember 'Drifting Away' back around 2000), amazingly this is his first album (hence the title). The album itself got plugged a lot on A State Of Trance around Dec/Jan and Armin played a few of the tracks from the album there, this really got me interested and I couldnt wait for the release. Let me say - I was not dissappointed, the album is very vocal as you would expect from Lange, but it is very VERY ...
...stuff and one titled 'History'. A couple of the stand out tracks are 'Out Of The Sky' and 'Maybe Tomorrow', 'Songless' and the best track on the album (The best track Lange has ever made IMO) 'Another You Another Me'. I really would recommend this album to any Trance fans out there, especially if you like your vocal stuff. ... Read review

Advantages: Some Top Tracks, Good Flow
Disadvantages: A Few Weak Links

As a massive Trance fan, Van Buuren specifically it is amazing that it took me so long to buy this album. I only purchased it a few months ago when I spotted it in HMV. £8 very well spent to say the least! The album has a good flow to it, starting with the beautiful 'Wall of sound' featuring Justine Suissa through to the absolutely immense title track 'Shivers'. In my opinion the best track on the album is 'Bounce back' which is done in colaboration ...
...the fantastic 'Mexico Can Wait' - one of the best trance tracks of 2007). Unfortunately compared to Armins other work there are 1 or 2 tracks on this album that are not quite at his usual standard, 'Golddigger' is one that springs to mind. In conclusion - I dont rate this as highly as the new 'Imagine' album but it is still very good and worth buying. ... Read review