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Title: Nothing new... really
Review: Although Karma I feel could be taken a little more seriously than it's preceeder Semantic Spaces, it still lacked severly in originality. The over-sampling of other artists is simpley ridiculous and once you realize that most of the drum loops and much of the instrumentations are hardly their own, you gradualy begin to realize how phoney and trendy this album really is! Just to name a few, you've got samples directly lifted from Peter Gabrial, Tori Amos, Enigma (yet again), Garbage, Waterbone, and Dead Can Dance (DCD being the only band whom sample credits were given to), not to mention I reccommend albums by ALL OF THE ABOVE ARTISTS before I would reccommend this "Sampler of Various Artists". As for the lyrical and vocal arrangements go ... not bad for the most part but they failed to impress me much either.
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