HOOoChA
01/20/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Buy this one, i tell ya, if you like rather dark music with a lot of style. this album is surely one of the best ones in 2000... the production is crisp, and every track is completely different from what you've ever heard before. a lot of special collaborations round it up. track 2 "killing culture" is a quite dark hiphop track w/ scratchin and vocals by Maxim himself. track 3 "carmen queasy" is one of the best and most original tracks out in the last time, using a sample from the animals' 'house of the rising sun' an having skin from skunk anansie on vocals. "scheming", the last single release off the album, is also very special in style tho you got to get used to the sound of it. "my web", the first single, is a dark and slow track with maxim on vocals, and "backward bullet" with the sneaker pimps is moody as hell. at all, the atmosphere the album gives when listening to it makes it a must have!!"
Pretty sweet disc.
saksyboy | Canada | 04/18/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I must admit that originally i didnt even know that this dis exsisted. But i decided to check it out after hearing Maxim's track off the 15 Minutes soundtrack. You may remember Maxim as one of the crazy lead figures in the group prodigy. Well hes back in this solo effort and he doesnt dissapoint. There are some pretty sweet beats on this disc. However it sounds different than most of the dance music out there right now. This disc seems to have a little more soul to it. You can feel some emotion coming through in the music as opposed to just hearing beats out of some synthesizer. I reccomend this one to dance music fans that are looking for something outside the norm as it were. I also think that prodigy fans will also appreciate this disc."
Not oustanding, but enjoyable
da-DK-krew | 02/12/2004
(3 out of 5 stars)
"All of the prodigy members eventually went out to do solo projects and Maxim's one is so far the best. However, it does not match the music quality that Prodigy reach on their albums and singles (or i should say reached, because they are no longer doing anything).
Anyway, Maxim's album is dark, original and some of the tracks on it, such as Carmen Queasy, Scheming, Killing Culture, Hell's Kitchen and Dominant Genes are prrty good. However, this is predominantly intended to be rap album, at which it is not very good at all. Maxim barely raps, the guest artists do however, but they are not very good at it. Still the album is worth buying as long as you are into experimental british rap and dark music. Do not expect the prodigy style, not their quality on this album, however."
Track Listings (12) - Disc #1