Beat Driven Music Review - Review

Aphrodite Recordings
1997 Aphrodite Recordings
[album, APHCD1, England]

Tracks

Artist Title Rating Notes/Review Sample
1. Aphrodite Aphromoods TripHop - Spectacular starting track. This is really hard, yet clean. Also the only track on the album with slow tempo.
2. Amazon II King of the Beats Drum n Bass - Heavy on vocal samples.
3. Aladdin Woman that Rolls! Drum n Bass - Heavy on vocal samples.
4. Aphrodite Spice (of the Gods Remix) Drum n Bass - classic track SPICE from EON done in the Aphrodite's way. There's no resemblance except that this has a vocal sample very similar to the one from EON.
5. Aladdin Summer Breeze Drum n Bass  
6. Amazon II Music's Hypnotising Drum n Bass - This track really picks up the heat toward the end.  
7. Aphrodite Listen to the Rythm (Vortex Mix) Drum n Bass  
8. Aphrodite Dub Moods (The Greatest Trick) Drum n Bass
9. Aphrodite Style from the Dark Side Drum n Bass - Stands out a bit from the rest, which of all are great tracks to begin with. This track has one freaky breaks.  
10. Aphrodite Tower Bass! Drum n Bass  
11. Aphrodite I want it more and more Drum n Bass with female vocal. VERY smooth. But still able to keep the hard-hitting breaks backed up by trademark synth sound.
12. Aphrodite Sweet Mind Drum n Bass  

 

Overall

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This album is one amazing piece of work. Each tracks on this CD are all great tracks, all produced by Aphrodite. This CD reminds me of Photek, not because of the sound (no, the sound is far different), but because of how original the tracks are from all the rest of Drum n Bass field. There are many genre of Drum n Bass these days, from Techstep, Darkstep to Jazzy to Raggaish. I don't think Aphrodite fits into any of those. It's somewhere in between.

When you hear Aphrodite, you will know it's Aphrodite. It has very distinct sound, primarily with synthesizer sound, and breaks that rocks at double beat like 60's rock'n'roll. And if you've heard 2 or 3 tracks from Aphrodite, you can pretty much say that you know Aphrodite. That's the downside of this album. All the songs have same type of sound.

But I don't think that's much of a problem since you will not hear this type of sound anywhere else and it is very refreshing to hear something new and fresh. This one's highly recommended.