Search - Darren Emerson :: Singapore (Dlx)

Whoa! Not your average dance mix!

Nick Weston | Springfield, OR USA | 04/22/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Okay, now first off let me tell you guys that when it comes to electronic music I'm new to the game. I've been a hip-hopper for the past 5 years, but recently I've beeen swaying towards the electronic genre a tad bit. I actually brought this record accidentally because the bonehead salesman at the shop put it in the wrong case. I went home thinking I had brought a John Digweed cd until I popped it my deck and heard how funky and fast this mix was. Now with all that said....THIS CD IS ROCKIN'! After realizing that what I was hearing through my car cd deck was too uplifting and moving for the dark and murky (yet amazingly dope!) Digweed, I started nodding my head and mashing the accelerator to the floor. Seriously, this cd starts off with a crazy Latin sounding house song with vocals over it and then moves into some sweet jazzy, funky, straight-up, "no-nonsense" dance music! But Emerson doesn't stop there--the next journey on his trip is back to the 80's with a couple of electro-break-beat soundin' tracks that just scream "pop" and "lock". Tracks 14 and 15 fade you out with a nice soulful groove. If you're looking for some fun, up-beat dance music to get your party started and have people asking the same question--"Damn! Who is this ill soundin' cat?" then GU20 Darren Emerson is for you!"

Most reviewers right on. Album is average by GU standards

Matthew W. Paradise | Indianapolis, IN United States | 03/28/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This is an O.K. mix from a decent DJ. It's too "stacked" a market to give this CD any more than 4 stars.



If you are like me, then you read Amazon reviews to get a good idea of the product before you buy to save wasted money. In this case 3 stars will let you know exactly what caliber of Global Underground album you are getting.



It has pretty good song selection and very good mixing, but when compared to the likes of the Sashas, Digweeds, Deep Dishes, Kleinenbergs etc. there is no way you should be buying this album ahead of their GU offerings.



Take the 2nd disc for example. It is a good CD... after you get 35 minutes in. I should have known though since it took 3 minutes to hear one beat on the first track alone. If you can suffer through the first boring 30 minutes on CD2, then it really picks up, launching it into the REAL Global Underground quality realm for House CDs.



I look forward to hearing more from Darren Emerson as I feel his mixing is great and track selection pretty good. Since this album is old I would expect his more recent albums are much better."