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Advantages: Amazing talent
Disadvantages: Not enough tracks!

First of all, for all you Lemon Jelly Virgins out there, a little background: Franglen and Deakin initially released three limited-circulation EPs, The Bath (1998), The Yellow (1999), and The Midnight (2000), which they produced into a massive album in 2002. Lemonjelly.KY, which was a huge success. Their second album Lost Horizons, was released in 2002, and was another big hit. The album featured the singles "Space Walk" and "Nice Weather For Ducks" ...
...a BRIT Award for Best Dance Act category in 2004. This album '64 - '95 released in 2005, shows a harder and more interesting sound than previous albums. It's called 64-95 as each track features a single sample taken from between 1964 and 1995, incorporating each sample in a host of imaginative ways. It has a track featuring vocals by William Shatner. The album was released alongside a DVD under the same title, with each of the album's audio tracks ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic, top notch tracks. Sampling at its best. Real dancey material in there.
Disadvantages: Lack of variety.

INTRO Lemon Jelly have done it again. They have sent a very powerful message to all artists and bands out there: that you can't cut corners with quality music. '64 - '95 is their latest album and boasts a fantastic selection of tracks. THE LEMON JELLY METHOD Lemon Jelly form their tracks by "sampling". This is where they take a theme, riff or idea from a particular track from another artist and use that with other beats, tunes and vocals to collate ...
...use their own vocals in the track and will themselves play instruments as a part of the track. Their talent and creativity is obvious from first listening. They have something very special. With the latest album, Lemon Jelly (or Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen) have sampled tracks between the years of 1964 and 1995 (hence the title '64 - '95). For each track on the album, it tells you the year in the cover that the track sampled came from. There are ... Read review

Advantages: Very good flow, some top tracks
Disadvantages: Very vocal (Even for Armin)

...off with the title track Imagine and going into 'Going Wrong' which is going to be massive this summer, all the way through the the beautiful 'Intricacy' at the end. It is a big shame that 'If You Should Go' IMO the best track he has produced since Shivers is not on the album. This is a suprise as Armin started playing the track around the same time he started promoting the album. The only other detremental thing I would say about the album is ... Read review

Advantages: A few bangers
Disadvantages: No change from earlier albums

...the first week. 1. King Back This is an amazing start to the album, and the perfect way to begin an album for T.I.. Although "Urban Legend" began in a similar way, you feel as though T.I. is more qualified to identify himself as the 'King of the South', and this great production behind him, you don't want to argue this claim by him. Just Blaze's beat opens it up in a relavent way to suit his status in the South with applause and horns before he ...
...**Five Stars** 2. Front Back (feat. UGK) This is one of my favourites tracks by T.I. due to all of the elements which make it work. The foundations of it are that it samples a Dirty South classic jam by UGK called "Front, Back, Side To Side", and features the original artists as they gained mainstream fame with re-written verses. It is such a big collaboration for the artists, and acts as the biggest one which he as done to date, as previous relaes ... Read review

Advantages: Old & new songs
Disadvantages: none

...memories, this is THE BEST clubland album yet, with 3 cds packed full of classic clubland songs you will be listening to it for hours! What great about this album is that there is old songs aswell as new so it is just perfect! Recommend to people who used to listen to or still do listen to clubland, all the old tracks will make you say "Remember this one!?" and the new tracks will have you ravin' for sure. Go out and buy the album you will not regret ... Read review