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Sofa Surfers lay it down

B. Smithhammer | 09/27/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Disregard the above review slamming the Sofa Surfers. Thunderball the best ESL artist?!? Ok, they have some good tracks, but their sound has always been way too similar to the much more polished and talented Thievery, and they continue to live in TC's shadow. Which brings me to the point - while Thievery are excellent, and I dig Conte, Ursula, etc., much of their label mates start to send the same after a while, and I like the diversity that the Sofa Surfers bring to ESL. From first listen, good beats and funky atmospherics pervade - there's enough weirdness here without being as obtuse and ¨trying to be weird¨as Tobin or Boards of Canada, but the beats are quality, have depth, and in my mind a cut above a lot of the genre. I do agree with the above comment about re-releasing a previous album under a different name and not telling anyone, though."

THIS IS A RE-RELEASE!!!

M. C. Wakem | USA | 07/26/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

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DONT GET FOOLED!!!..this cd is a re-release of an import cd called Encounters.

It has been re-named and is on a different label. Why do they do this !!!...if you are going to release it domestically at least give it the same name!!!"

Mighty fine record

M. C. Wakem | 07/10/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"You need to pick this record up. It's sick. Drenched in dub and hip-hop there are some killer tracks on here especially the Thievery Corporation remix of "Can I Get A Witness" worth the cost of the CD alone."