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Title: Where's The Mix?
Review: This was a very disappointing album. Disc One is a so called "mix" of funk/rare songs, but the blends are simplistic at best. Some songs seem more like a fade out than a blend meaning "beat to beat". In addition, these songs had very little commonality between them at all. Not that that is a necessity but a mixing Striplin's "Can't Turn Me Away" into Ripperton's "Lovin You" just doesn't make any sense. Maybe I totally missed the concept he was trying to convey. Maybe I should read the liner notes, but I don't think that will change my perspective. I bought this for the mixed version with the hopes that there was some creativity or thematic approach taken. Because I and most music (funk/R&B) aficionados already have most of these songs anyway, Disc Two is useless to me. I'll only keep this because I don't have the Striplin cut. But once that album becomes available, Blueprint becomes a frisbee headed to my friend in Alabama. Keep funkin!
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