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Best of the Back to Mine Series. Diverse music makes for per

A. G. Corwin | 01/14/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Having listened to several albums in the back to mine series, I have to say that Groove Armada's compilation is by far the best of the lot. Intergrating an incredibly diverse mix of musical genres and artists, GA creates a album that seamlessly transitions from one song to the next. Overall, this is a more soulful album than ambient techno, with offerings from Al Green, Barry White, and A Tribe Called Quest. As far as beats and tempos go, it's much more laid back than Everything But the Girl, The Orb, or Danny Tenaglia's versions. This is the perfect album for an evening in with close friends or a special someone, a laid back vibe with a red wine buzz, or something else that gets your mind open."

GA and BTM deliver again

Jasper Dupuis | Banff, AB Canada | 06/04/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Alot of my fellow reviewers and the general public should note that a main tenet of the Back to Mine series is that it is a reflection of influences and musical tastes of the artists. In the sleeve notes of one of the Back to Mine series (there are at least a dozen so named CDs) I read that it's all about what they'd play at their after-clubbing party back home on their vintage vinyls and what not.



Therefore you get alot of downbeat tracks and music that isn't necessarily what the artist would normally put out. The same holds true for this BTM release. Groove Armada are already masters of the chill beats, but they put in a twist for this assortment of their favourite tunes. A direct quote from the booklet that comes with the disc: "In compiling this album, we've worked at playing all these tunes at their original speed as they're all too special to be distorted."



What you are buying here isn't necessarily a Groove Armada album - though it's definitely got their flavour. What you are buying is a truly one-of-a-kind, stellar mix tape. Seriously. Still worth the purchase, even at the more expensive CD store prices."

This album is slick and kewl!

S. Hebbron | Leicester UK | 03/10/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Not the best output from the band but slick and smooth nontheless. Some have accussed this album of being directionless but that rather misses the point, and almost misses the point of the ethos of this great band.

Here you have a mardi gras of dance cultures, soul, funk, R+B, rap, house and ambient chill with more than a foot in the camp of black and latino culture; make this distinctly different.

Not at all a misguided album, it's like a club night out in modern Harlem and the Bronx fused; very, very different and that is the rarified joy of Groove Armada."