Title: The first of a fine series
Review: Think what you will about labels such as "acid jazz," the music featured in the Totally Re-wired series deserves a listen. The artists here are largely uncommercial, usually innovative and often phat-out funky. I have three records from this series (12 total?) and think that this one is exquisite--one of my favorite discs from the 90s.As you get deeper into Volume 1, the music strays farther and father from the mainstream. Organ-driven instrumentals, dub chanting, high-energy funk, a hopped-up soul number or two, a percussion maelstrom--the collection runs the organic/electric funk-jazz gamut. And I think that's a good thing. A very good thing.I'd also recommend No. 10 in the series, which has some of the same artists as No. 1: Snowboy, Mother Earth and Gregory Isaacs. I wasn't that crazy about No. 8; it seemed slicker.
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