| DJ Drez / Jahta Beat |
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| Album: | Jahta Beat | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | DJ Drez | Added: | May 2006 | |
| Label: | Say It Loud | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-06-18 | Pull Date: | 2006-08-20 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Aug 20 | Jul 23 | Jul 16 | Jul 9 | Jul 2 | Jun 25 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 14, 2012: | Bouge Mood Morocco | 4. | May 16, 2011: | Moose Ain't Here Right Now Morocco | |
| 2. | Jun 04, 2012: | No Longer at Ease Voice | 5. | Jul 24, 2010: | Music Casserole Voice, Morocco | |
| 3. | Sep 23, 2011: | Music Casserole Nya Sky | 6. | Aug 15, 2006: | Radio Of Imagination Voice |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2006-05-23 | ||
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DJ Drez – Jahta Beat (Sil Music) Reviewed by Sadie O., 5/23/06 Hip hop DJ from LA does chill Indian and North African beats and flows – really well. It’s in World instead of Hip Hop because although it’s all chill production, the world instrumentations are totally dominant. Not unlike our local Cheb I-Sabbah, who’s passed through our a-file but with more Indian chill than Middle Eastern dance. No FCC, but a bit of moaning on track 12. I like 2 and 5 best – all are pretty, most are really chill. None are bad, even if I didn’t * em. 1. 1:05 etherial and formless, Indian instrumentation drifting from one channel to the other. 2. 4:22 ***slow, swingy Bhangra beat, calm and flowing yet funky. Female vocals and sitar star. 3. 3:45 *slightly downtempo but very chill. Flute stars, a bit jazzy, also tabla and electronica. 4. 5:18 *slow with sitar and table and keyboards – male and female vocals sounding devotional. Some hip hop at end. 5. 3:46 ***midtempo, WAY funky, some street noises, funky North African horn 6. 4:13 *slow, chill, sitar, no beat for long intro, then flute and female vocals “you make me feel so good”… 7. 5:58 *downtempo, funky/jazzy, gorgeous female vocals. Turns English halfway through. 8. 5:19 drone and sitar, male carnatic singer, very devotional, chill, but with occasional uptempo Bhangra beat overlaid. 9. 3:44 *midtempo hip hop with some drone, some cosmic pronouncements and piano 10. 3:35 midtempo heartbeat riddim with handdrums, rainstick and piano (and something twangy). 11. 4:50 a bit downtempo, jazzy guitar and bass with devotional chanting and tabla. 12. 4:39 downtempo old-school hip hop beat, mixes in with vaguely Bhangra beat, cuica, flutes… a little bit of gratuitous moaning. 13. 2:47 *slightly uptempo tabla, hip hop beat, sitar 14. 4:06 downtempo, sounds like a didgeridoo, maybe a samba singer in the distance, very ethereal. 15. 4:47 **nyahbinghi drums and sitars 16. 2:15 **a bit uptempo, boopy, very random vocals 17. 4:30 **a bit uptempo with some urgency and mysterious horns. A bit of “Fantasia” feel. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Intro | 8. | InI | |||
| 2. | Voice | 9. | Inner Vision | |||
| 3. | The Road | 10. | Cinema7 | |||
| 4. | She's Callin | 11. | Sela | |||
| 5. | Morocco | 12. | After The Rain | |||
| 6. | So Good | 13. | Time | |||
| 7. | Universe | 14. | Contact | |||
| 15. | Nya Sky | |||||