| Stereo Mc's - Deep Down & Dirty
(2001)
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| Cover Front |
Album |
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| Artist/Composer |
Stereo Mc's |
| Format |
CD |
| Genre |
Club Dance; General House |
| Label |
Universal |
| Index |
1013 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Packaging |
Jewel Case |
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| Track List |
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| 01 |
Deep Down & Dirty |
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| 02 |
We Belong In This World Together |
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| 03 |
Breeze |
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| 04 |
Running |
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| 05 |
Graffiti Part One |
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| 06 |
Graffiti Part Two |
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| 07 |
Sofisticated |
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| 08 |
Traffic |
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| 09 |
The Right Effect |
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| 10 |
Stop At Nothing |
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| 11 |
Unconcious |
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| 12 |
Shameless |
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| Details |
| Spars |
DDD |
| Rare |
No |
| Sound |
Stereo |
| UPC |
731458607724 |
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| Notes |
| Date of US Release June 12, 2001 In 2001, several years after any listeners could've expected a follow-up to 1992's Connected, Stereo MC's finally delivered with Deep Down & Dirty. It's a tribute to how far ahead of the curve Stereo MC's were ten years earlier that Deep Down & Dirty never strays far from the spirit of Connected, but still sounds perfectly up-to-date for 2001. It's clear the productions are more mature and more complex, but they still plumb the depths of deep-groove beatbox funk, with nods to soul-jazz and gospel. Still tossing out lines with the half-assed cool of Shaun Ryder or Ian Brown, frontman Rob Birch doesn't rap quite as much as he used to (that's a good thing), and the productions are a tad more down-tempo and dubby than when the band was at its most clubbed-up in the early '90s. The title-track opener sets things off in fine fashion, working a stuttered mid-tempo groove with split-second snippets from the horn section and a full-throttle vocal backing. In true soul tradition, the upfront mover "Graffiti, Pt. 1" segues into a bongo-led "Graffiti, Pt. 2." Birch even sends up his slacker-cool image on "Sofisticated," a groovy piano-and-beatbox number. Along with Birch, producer Nick Hallam (aka the Head) is the other key to what makes Deep Down & Dirty so much fun, packing his productions to the bursting point with dusty beats, lines from old Hammond organs, and samples of bygone soul shouters. Despite a few traditionalist, anthemic tracks ("We Belong in This World Together," "Running") which don't work as well as they would've in the heady days of 1993, Deep Down & Dirty is a solid record that reveals no trace of cobwebs from Stereo MC's long hiatus. This is the Correct spelling of all tracks as well as the title |
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