Thoughts on Zabiela - Alive?

[a94buff]

thought CD1 was impressive; not as great as duckwater drive or GTDJ001 but a really enjoyable ride. glad to see he's eased up just a bit on the compulsive need to scratch over the top of every second of every track.

CD2 was a bit of a disappointment IMO - never really felt the payoff.

[unrecogniseduser]

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i loved disc 2, . disc 1 was also cool but 2 was more to my specific taste. I prefer james' cd's to his live sets because he puts a lot more thought into programming and less emphasis on the scratching. After all i'm gonna buy it for the tunes!

[zen]

james zabiela ... ALIVE

no words to discribe it. he left me with my mouth open

zabiela

has anyone listen this ?

[phil]

Bought my copy of Juno last week and listened to it on the drive down to Chicago before catching him live... Si Begg- Gangsta is def hot shit... Love the in-depth explanation of the mixing... CD easily is one of the best this year.....

[peloquin]

loved both discs

[darin epsilon]

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Incredible, simply incredible. Now I know exactly what 3 CDJ1000's and a mixer can do. Can you believe it??? His mash-up of Rob Mello and Underworld's Dark & Long was done live!! I love the concept of this album. Inside the liner notes, James gives a summary of every trick, edit, loop, and FX he uses. James held back on the scratching this time around, too much on Sound In Motion and not enough on Alive. Tracks were once again only ok as a whole. The ones that did stand out kick ass though!!

[LoUiS]

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I'm not very surprised!

[nightfly]

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Very good + refreshing, CD1 is the better of the two IMO (first 6 tracks are just brilliant!).

[gregga]

in one word - faultless

much more energetic than sound in motion and brilliantly mixed

[factorg]

I've only listened to disc1 so far and pretty much enjoyed it, will give cd2 a listen tonight.

[kezarmyaj]

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I think theyre both excellent.

[peloquin]

the ultimate dj and mc crew

[Pataky P]

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I don't like Zabiela's music,because he play very heavy for me...

[skooby]

definately a great comp

[galo]

I wonder how many takes it took him to mix those cd's flawless, one beat out, start again