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Bhakti Sutras by Narada

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Bhakti Sutras by Narada: Well originally by Narada but our Guruji breaks it down for us. Bhakti means devotion or divine love, Sutras means string… something to do with sutras being the string and you the kite. I’m gonna start burning CD’s for as many folks as I can man coz its all about the love I’ve been talking about. They go like this…
1 – The love does not die,
2 – Love is beyond desires,
3 – Love knows no conflict,
4 – Rejoicing without conflict,
5 – Love is pure communication,
6 – Love and respect,
7 – The means to divine love,
8 – Awakening the divinity within,
9 – Crossing the ocean of misery,
10 – Love cannot be expressed,
11 – Attaining divine love
12 – Love needs no proof,
13 – Love is supreme,
14 – The 6 distortions of love,
15 – Love, A hidden secret,
16 – Love knows no boundaries,
17 – Dwell in the divine,
18 – The ultimate truth.

This knowledge dates centuries back… what’s amazing about Bhakti sutras, Patanjali sutras, Vedas, puranas etc is that its vidya/unchangeable truths. Time normally changes lots of truths, yet these have stayed. Gimme a shout and blank CD if you want a copy.

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Culture Beat (Discography)

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Culture Beat (Discography).
Genre: Electronica/Techno/Dance/House/Trance/German Euro-dance.

- Horizon (1991): Weak and ol skool dance styles. Don’t even sound like them. They’re amateur here anyway.
- Serenity (1993): At’s more like it. This is the album with the hits like Mr. Vain, Got To Get It, Adelante, Anything, etc. Hit album! Love the Mother Earth song.
- The Remix Album (1994): Speaks for itself.
- Inside Out (1995): Takes me baaaaack! Me and bro used to listen to this all the time thanx to Dilan. Man that dude used to get all the latest hot stuff, even got me and bro into Dr. Alban. Ok so not only is this album personally special, they’re all wicked tunes.
- Metamorphosis (1998): Opps. This album goes all Robert Miles-ish. Arrangements are less complex, lady warbles with less gravity. But I’m sure that’s coz they’ve changed the keyboard/programmer dude and singer a few times. Not good… well its ok but… yeah. Oh wait… it goes jungle/D&B for a track. Still the album’s just there.
- Best of Culture Beat(2003): Just that.

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DMX Discography

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DMX Discography.
Genre: Gangsta Rap/Hip Hop

- It’s Dark and Hell is Hot (1998): Through out the albums his Prayer tracks sound wicked, not really singing, not exactly the rap you’re used to… more like thug poetry/preaching.
- Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (1998): One of the few rappers that spits them superior lyrics. There was controversy over his CD cover with him covered in pig’s blood.
- … And Then There Was X (1999): My personal favourite album coz it had Here We Go Again, Party Up, What These B1tche5 Want and Good Girls, Bad Guys.
- The Great Depression (2001): This is when I found out DMX directs and produces his videos… or at least for Who We Be. Good tracks are Who We Be, We Right Here and I Miss You.
- Grand Champion (2003): Starting to get much now. Don’t Gotta Go Home final has a bit of love rap even if it is with his mistress telling him not to vex about his wife coz she’s there.
- Year of the Dog…. Again (2006): Usual. Disses Will Smith indirectly… not cool. I heard Lord Give Me A Sign on the weekend after mathe’s passing… perfect timing coz I was hearing shit about gold and bull when all I could think was my lady made it/left me. Goodbye and Blown Away are pretty deep.
- B-Sides/Ruff Ryders/Soundtracks: It is what it is. Grand Final with
Method Man, Ja Rule and Nas is pretty good. Most High Remix with Jerzee Monet is extra deep till DMX starts rapping in the end lol.

The Juice: Gave up school to rob for a living. Was in school with Mary J. Blige. Used to rap and then he was asked to beatbox for this other dude. So dude got his name DMX from the synthesizer he used then. Course, now it stands for Dark Man X. Dude wants to be a preacher when he retires and have a reality TV show called DMX: Soul Of A Man. At least in all his albums he has his prayers and dedicates a song or two to Jesus.

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Eric Benet (Discography)

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Eric Benet (Discography).
Genre: R&B/Gospel.
- True to Myself (1996): It’s ok.
- A Day in the Life (1999): Has his hit Gorgy Porgy and my fav Why You Follow Me. Great improvement.
- Better and Better (2001): Love the R&B… dedicated to R&B. I love Sing To Me. Sings with real feeling in couple of other ones.
- Hurricane (2005): I think the best album. Inspirational, emotional, exciting… not always quality but every track got a different flavour. His voice ’shines’ in the Hurricane track. Love ay’thing in Where Does The Love Go.

The Juice: Dude was inspired by his pops love for classical music. Formed a band with his sister called Benet. Lots of his songs sound like Az Yet.

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Faithless

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Faithless.
Album: No Roots.
Genre: Chillout/Trance/Electronica.
Comments: The songs are less Insomnia… more Muhammed Ali if you’ve heard it. Just liked their hits before but now after reading their booklet I love em… you know why? Maxi Jazz’s lyrics are all about love and the way he puts philosophy in verse is amazing (kinda like Linton Kwesi Johnson only instead of raggae we got trance)… it does get a lot but by then you’re in the instrumental half of the album. Sister Bliss is amazing on the keyboards especially since the whole album was does in only the ‘C’ key. These guys must have done Art Of Living man I just feel it hahaha. Recommended ‘choons’: Mass Destruction, Miss You Less See You More, I Want More, Love Lives On My Street, What About Love, No Roots… basically all of em… Just don’t hear them all together unless your eyes are red and high in the head.

Faithless.
Genre: Electronica/Dance/Techno.
Albums: Irreverence/Reverence (Special Double CD). No Roots. Outrospective. Saturday 3AM/Sunday 8PM (Double CD).
Comment: They’re all cool. Some of the double CD albums are just remixes but still as good and its not all Insomnia kinda tracks… some slow, some instrumental, its got a lil bit of everything. Note: Found like 18 versions of Insomnia and I can’t explain it… 2 of the versions are just… man see I need to get that rush every other month and that’s what it was… they’re The Rush!

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Ace of Base (Discography)

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Ace of Base (Discography).
Genre: Pop, Reggae, Eurodance, Techno.

- Happy Nation/The Sign (1992/3): The best album man every song took me way back. There’s this one song which says ‘dance or fade out’ took me back to Prasheel’s room, his moms would give us these tiny tubs of Nutella and I’d hog mine one time, Prashla would wait till I finish then open his and savour it lol. The Sign took me back to Power Hits USA. All That She Wants and Happy Nation took me back to chilling with Meera, Priya and Komal and Africana/Jadini Beach. Loving it!
- The Bridge (1995): It’s ok, they get too Abba. Note: The chubby one Jonas/Joker writes the songs and admits that Whigfield inspired You and I. Pretty obvious if you hear the start itself.
- Flowers/Cruel Summer (1998): Again it’s ok. Too many songs about the Sun.
- Singles of the 90’s (1999): Just that.
- De Capo (2002): Ok, so this is why they decided to step out of the spotlight and focus more on concerts and stuff. The albums totally ass and off base. But the group still gets a special Big up for doing the art thing and experimenting on later albums, adding flavours from gospel to ballads to mo-town to retro, salsa, reggae, etc.

Juice: The guys that originally started it left after changing the band name so many times and the four as we now know finally settled for Ace of Base. Used to perform live till they hooked up a studio in the basement… hence the name. They got bad rep coz dude with cool styles used to be a member of a Neo-Nazi group. Damn! I thought it’d be the fatty. They’re also in the Guinness Book of World Records for world’s highest selling debut album. OF COURSE ITS HAPPY NATION/THE SIGN! Now I thought I’d review them coz they wont release anymore so it’ll all be together but they claim they’re even more inspired and to expect an album next year.”

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