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after the fall of Hotel Costes and Cafe Del Mar , here comes the Buddha Bar series.can't understand how people are giving this 5 stars.Ravin has clearly EXHAUSTED all his magic music (that was heard on volume 3, somehow volume 6/7 and the Siddharta series)they need a NEW DJ (Popat started well on volume 8) or maybe more of David Visan ( all his volumes, vol 4 and 5, were excellent including the Chill in Out Paris series) - he was the only one (besides Claude Challe of course, the godfather of all) who truly mixed eastern asian, indian, middle-eastern/arabic, african, european/french and latin music (or what we currently call World Music)i give it 2 stars because of the initial tracks on volume 1 (that are acceptable) and some other scattered ones (get up carmen, sahib balkan.).
I have been a fan of Buddha Bar and this latest collection I have is a promo CD, which clearly labelled "for promotional use only", which means not to be sold. Moreover, the price of it near to my other Buddha Bar series made me feel that it is not a fair deal.Unethical as it is but I feel ripped off.
Major.minor keys.wow. Well worth the price.Get Up. Carmen - Waldeck _ blows me away.I'm off to buy Waldecks gramaphone now.
The remixes are excellent, especially the one by Sia. At last Ravin has returned to what really works with these Buddha Bar CDs--WORLD Lounge Music. There are plenty of regular lounge, chillout, dance CDs around, but I count on Buddha Bar to bring in that Parisian sound from around the world. As usual, however, I really like CD 1 MUCH better than CD 2 (which gets thumpy and dancey). I would rather dance to global beats than a "house" beat.All in all, WAAAAY better than the last one which was only dance music.
I 've heard it many times trying to catch the spirit of this volume, but it isn't as goog as the previous ones. CD 2 is not strong enough as it usually is, it doesn't reach to that point.
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