Nu Made (Remixes)

World | Aug 2009

Reviews

Sadie O.
Reviewed 2009-08-28
Balkan Beat Box – Nu Made (Remixes)
Reviewed by Sadie O., 8/28/09
The usual mashup of Gypsy brass and modern/world beats we’ve come to expect from Balkan Beat Box – but remixed. Mostly dance grooves, with strong beats and influences from all over. I think it’s less Gypsy brass/Balkan than the original tracks, but it’s lots and lots and lots of fun. Play! Enjoy! Eat!
No FCCs detected. Everything is INSANELY GREAT.
1. 5:17 ****dramatic trumpet, Arabic female singing, cheers; after 50 seconds doumbek and electronic club thump beat. Irresistible noise. Female hip hop vocals in Arabic.
2. 3:32 ***downtempo funky dance thump with kinda wobbly horns. Sheer fun. Male dancehall vocals in English, kinda.
3. 5:23 ***bub bub bub! Bits of the original, but… different. Prominent slinky bassline.
4. 5:15 ****frogs on crack. Yay! And slide whistles, too! My cup runneth over!
5. 5:01 ***rooster and midtempo funky shuffle with bits of Reggae and Klezmer and lots of farts. Hip hop vocals.
6. 2:50 *****a bit uptempo and a lot groovy, with Bulgarian women’s vocals, and Pong. Cool!
7. 3:49 ****yikes! Screaming sound collage intro, then uptempo electronics and brass. Hard to sit still to this. Totally different from the Track 2 version. Mad!
8. 4:39 ****hyperspeed male Gypsy vocals, then lopsided oom-pah with lots of brass and something that smells a lot like Ouzo.
9. 3:36 ***starts loud, then gets subdued and bass-heavy, albeit a bit uptempo – and heavily dubbed. A still completely different version of the same track as track 2 and 7.
10. 4:46 ****big dramatic movie soundtrack bit, then electronic stomp and Gypsy strings and… Bhangra! Vocals sound like Gnawa, but nothing else does.
11. 6:48 ****farts! Farty farts! And vocal sound collage, and slippery slinky bass and stuff… Gosh! Completely different from the Track 1 version. Glitchy bits, too. And bits where the siren sings and you go mad and wander into the desert… Fades to chimes.
12. 4:04 *****vocal intro, then lopsided mad beat and vocal chorus – Arabic dancehall? Hard to describe, just super groovy.

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Charting

2009-08-30 — 2009-11-01 Reggae/World
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Track listing

1. Habibi Min Zaman (Bbb Remix)
2. Digital Monkey (Soulico Remix)
3. Adir Adirim (Nickodemus Remix)
4. Delancey (Stefano Miele Balkan Carnival Remix)
5. Hermetico (Dub Gabriel/Kush Arora Remix)
6. Joro Boro (Bbb Remix)
7. Digital Monkey (Cheffy Chef Remix)
8. Red Bula (Mahala Rai Banda Vs. Bbb)
9. Digital Monkey (Puzzel Remix)
10. Pachima (Ubk Remix)
11. Habibi Min Zaman (Mr. Tunes Remix)
12. Ramallah Tel Aviv (Feat. Tomer Yosef And Saz)