Turbulence / Notorious: The Album
Album: Notorious: The Album   Collection:Reggae
Artist:Turbulence   Added:Apr 2006
Label:Vp Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2006-05-07 Pull Date: 2006-07-09 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Jul 9 Jul 2 Jun 18 Jun 11 Jun 4 May 28 May 21 May 14
Airplays: 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 15, 2012: Happy Hour
Fire Pon Dem
4. Jul 30, 2011: New World Disorder
Notorious
2. Mar 22, 2012: Happy Hour
Front Line (Want A Natty)
5. Apr 23, 2011: Music Casserole
Notorious
3. Sep 05, 2011: Happy Hour (Coverin' for PACC)
Bongo Congo
6. Aug 09, 2010: Happy Hour (Coverin' for PACC)
Fire Pon Dem

Album Review
Sadie O.
Reviewed 2006-04-25
Turbulence – Notorious: The Album (VP Music)
Reviewed by Sadie O., 4/25/06
New school reggae – a bit roots but with electronica, a bit dancehall but with rasta preaching. The rasta/social justice theme is strong throughout, however. Sometimes the production is a bit slick, sometimes the vocals are a bit rough. Definitely different, occasionally pretty cool. The “preaching” is fairly angry sounding yelling/toasting – actually more fun than the less in your face singing. Most of the CD is recorded in Tel Aviv.
No discernable FCCs. I like 2 and 11 best, 7 is terrible.
1. 3:34 *downbeat, acoustic guitar and rasta preaching.
2. 3:45 ***cool minimalist beat, more angry preaching, then cool riddim and singing.
3. 3:52 *pretty midtempo bubble, vocal harmonies as well as toasting.
4. 3:21 *slightly uptempo skank, Babylon must fall
5. 4:12 midtempo, some electric guitar as well as rather overpolished girl chorus, about having a baby – rather odd sound for the subject.
6. 4:16 *midtempo skank with female guest, love song. Some extra sounds are cool and some are a bit slick.
7. 3:33 slow, “R&B”, absolute crap.
8. 3:02 *midtempo skank with a bit of electronica, rather banal vocals but pleasant sound.
9. 3:42 **uptempo, minimalist beat with electronia, rasta preaching. Extremely abrupt ending.
10. 3:00 **midtempo, minimal and electronic riddim (not really reggae), falsetto vocals and preaching.
11. 2:24 ***Middle Eastern instrumental backing, midtempo, dunno what he’s saying but it’s a cool sound.
12. 4:13 **slow, cool riddim, impassioned singing
13. 3:55 downtempo acoustic guitar and pretty backing vocals. Some nice sax, but a pretty confused message.

Track Listing
1. Fire Pon Dem   7. Work It Out
2. Notorious   8. Love You
3. Do You   9. Run Away
4. Down Down Down   10. Woyeeeeee
5. I'm Yours   11. Nah Run
6. Front Line (Want A Natty)   12. Liberation
  13. Bongo Congo