"Luckily, I went with my instincts and did not buy this 33rd installment of the GU city series. I borrowed it from a very displeased friend and tried to listen to it with a fresh set of ears.
This is a terrible album for Global Underground. Hats off to the label to opening up their doors to include other DJ's and genres of mixes, but Layo & Bushwacha!? A little too generous in my opinion.
Disc 1 is suppose to be experimental...well I guess you can call it that if experimental means turning a GU disc 1 into something that sounds like someone's random playlist on I-tunes. The tracks are all over the place, poorly mixed and the layout is aweful. I was just waiting for "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leopard to come on at any moment during my first run through. What an aweful mix.
Disc 2 improves slightly and of course has L&B trying their unfamiliar hands at mimimal techno. Not much to get excited about this mix either, except the last 20 minutes are pretty good and the tracks flow nicely.
Disc 1 gets 2/5 stars, and disc 2, 3/5 stars."
Sick, Sick, Sick
A. Sayad | USA | 04/19/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Wow, I must say this one was a shocker. I have been a GU-fan (like everyone else) since Tony DeVitt dropped the first one. But L&B bring some amazing music that has brightened the look of house music today with classics from the early warehouse days. Heavy synth, funky, smooth, deep, vocal, yet very "Tenaglia-esque" with its witty mixing and acid-based electro house that gets you in a zone. CD-1 STEALS the whole disc hands down and I have not even heard CD-2 yet!!!"
For the love of beats.
Boony | West Side | 06/29/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is in my top 3 best mixes of 2007. After reading all these bad reviews I had to come to the rescue. Layo & Bushwacka! have dropped a bomb!!! I can't say enough about disc one, TAKING IT BACK OLD SCHOOL! This disc is what late night clubbin is all about. Be warned trance lovers: THIS IS HOUSE MUSIC 101!!! Disc two is THE modern sound. Solid!
And what a hotter place to to do this than RIO!!!?"
Darkness in the Edge of the Club
Heinrich Emil Lob | Atlanta, GA, USA | 11/14/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Layo & Bushwacka! - the last set I heard from them was around 4-5 years ago, at that time more hiphop, house and breaks. The house you can find on the first CD which is a collection of classic house tunes. So this is very party compatible and ok for history of dance, I do not really listen to it. BUT: CD2 is dark, rolling, minimal techno. After a kinda slow strange start with Phonique and then Tiga (which does not really fit in the mix) L&B using their exquisit mixing skill to create an atmosphere which reminds me of dark, underground, smoky club with too much booze. Guy Gerbers "Belly Dancing" pushes, Richie Hawtins "Spastik" rolls and hands up in the air for Jesus Loves You - After The Love/Layo And Bushwacka! - Ashes Remain, really cool. After this the mix delivers what great minimal techno always does - keeps you on your level - let's you dance without exhaustion for hour. Wanna see those guys live again - 2 h or more must be amazing. However, a CD is 70 min, so they have to round up a great evening in the club faster - and they do that with "Saudade", which is a breaks influenced masterpiece and makes me think of the sunrise you see leaving the club in the morning...."