benga - diary of an afro warrior
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I have it on good authority benga and skream are involved, you only need to hear their recent production outings.
Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
Big hopes for Benga in 2008 
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
vinyl promo sold out at dubplate.net. Bollocks. If their site wasn't so shite and slow I'd have bought it when it was in stock...
Client Eastwood
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Big hopes for Benga in 2008
Eventually got my hands on this, had a couple of listens and im liking it a lot. I like how some of the intros are a bit light and airy and then comes the badness. The Cut is quite dark and nasty without losing the soul in the machine. Also Loose Synths, I really like the almost sad atmospherics (for want of a better word).
Client Eastwood
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Any particular elements you don't like John ? B4 the duel doesn't do it for me, but otherwise Im enjoying it for the most part.
Client Eastwood
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do you have the cd version? cos the vinyl is very very different, much more tearing and techy
UFO over easy
online mahjong
the CD has Pleasure and Loose Synths though..
I think tempa have been very smart in how they've pushed this album to different markets on their respective formats..
I think tempa have been very smart in how they've pushed this album to different markets on their respective formats..
yeh i actually much prefer the CD! but i quite like plinky plonky stuff i guess. some of the vinyl material i loved at first but it reminds me too much of feeling numb in clubs! some of those tracks are still wicked though
sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
I quite like it, but in terms of dubstep albums released this year, I'd rather listen to scuba.
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
I have the vinyl (and no track listing!).
I really like it, there's a couple of brilliant bangers on there.
But - and I could be COMPLETELY wrong on this - it seems to me that some of the tunes seem to be like less-good versions of stuff Youngsta has been playing out for months. I suspect he's slightly over-cooked them.
Unless the ones I'm thinking of are actually by completely different people!
BTW I quite like the jazz-noodle one.
I really like it, there's a couple of brilliant bangers on there.
But - and I could be COMPLETELY wrong on this - it seems to me that some of the tunes seem to be like less-good versions of stuff Youngsta has been playing out for months. I suspect he's slightly over-cooked them.
Unless the ones I'm thinking of are actually by completely different people!
BTW I quite like the jazz-noodle one.
UFO over easy
online mahjong
I dunno if this is what you mean but both the vinyl and CD are extremely loud.. they cut through the mix like nobodies business, I take the treble and the mids down a touch when I mix them.
ramadanman
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I really like this album, really good mix of tunes. Always though Benga's been underrated (interested to hear more about the 'great hard drive crash' of 2005 or somethin!) but its nice to see he's getting a lot of recognition now
re the mastering: far too loud IMO - the cd is actually distorted in some places. worried that the over compression loudness war seems to be creeping into some dubstep
re the mastering: far too loud IMO - the cd is actually distorted in some places. worried that the over compression loudness war seems to be creeping into some dubstep
sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
yeah i noticed the distortion on "night." I'm guessing it wasn't mastered at transition?
ramadanman
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nah both the cd and vinyl i do believe were mastered at heathmans....the thing is, if you bring in as good a mixdown as benga must do - does it really need that much doing to it? especially if something if going on the radio which means it goes through loads of multi band compression etc - does it really need that much limiting etc on it? it just seems to me a shame that probs the biggest selling dubstep release so far has these flaws