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Title: Held together with glue
Review: Patchy, derivative, unoriginal. How exactly is this an album of original music -- it's sample mania, from sounds to vocals to grooves. He lifts entire pieces from Kronos Quartet, ferchrissake. If cheesy Eurodiva vocals are your thing (I guess he couldn't get Bjork but didn't mind finding someone who imitates her), you'll be in heaven here. In terms of originality and composition it isn't all that much better than stuff being produced by a slew of bedroom musicians across the world using Cubase or ProTools on their PCs. You can hear stuff as good or better on mp3.com any time. On the plus side, it's well produced and he gets decent synth sounds. Oakenfold is enormously popular and not about to go away -- like most bubblegum, when it catches, it's hard to get rid of.
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