Jungle Jazz V.2 [Import]

Jungle Jazz V.2 [Import]

Track Listings

1. Ingrid Schroeder - Paint You Blue (Peshay After Hours Mix)

2. Justice - Aquisse

3. M-Beat featuring Jamiroquai - Do You Know Where You're Coming From

4. Dub Alchemist - Retrospective

5. Nookie - The Blues

6. Skin 4 - Aura

7. Alex Reece - Candles

8. Namaste' - Open Your Eyes

9. Shamen - Transamazonia (LTJ Bukem Mix)

10. Dust - Donna Jane

11. St Germain - Alabama Blues (Wax Doctor Mix)

12. Leftfield - Release One

13. Recycle - I Can't Help It

14. Clan Greco - Tilt

Tracks:

Sleight Of Eye - K-SCOPE
Bossa Perduta - Lacarno & Burns
Jupiter In Taurus - Artemis
Golden - Cedar
Dawn Of A New Age - K-SCOPE
Quebec - Aphratec
Strong Nature - Meeting Minds
Buckweed - Life On Mars & Mantavani
Reality - Realside

Customer Reviews:

Strong album from Good Looking Records.......2004-03-03

I've been to a few places in Chicago where this music would have fit right in with the laid back, groove-appreciating attitude of the crowd. A kind of modern and progressive jazz feel permeates throughout the tracks. A jazz album this is not in the traditional sense. I hear Funk, Jazz, a little Soul, a little R&B. This album is definitely worth actually listening to. It is relaxing yet upbeat. If you are familiar with LTJ Bukem's Journey Inwards, this compliments its style well. Both are off the same label. Expect to hear vocal samples and sound bytes, some solid beats, a few traditional jazz instruments, and synthesized sounds mixed together on these tracks. I would not rate it as an outstanding CD, but it is definitely worth listening to and will not leave you feeling untouched by the music, as I find myself occasionally playing these tracks through in my mind.

If you have to choose..........2001-09-09

between Ingredients 1 and 2, go for the second installment of this new series from producer and dj LTJ Bukem. While both compilations feature tracks by the same stable of dj's, Ingredients 2 is slightly more chilled down and interesting - these tunes flirt heavily with the structure and range of instrumental acid jazz and seem less sterile and processed as a result. Ingredients 1 is what you'd put on as background muzak when your friends come over for cocktails; Ingredients 2 is what you'd actually listen to on your headphones. Neither record is particularly groundbreaking but since that evidently wasn't the goal when they were made, I'm not complaining. Oh, and good cover art, no?