V/A - Mashed Mellow Grooves 3

[Guest Gizmo]

V/A - Mashed Mellow Grooves 3

 

Artist: Various

Title: Mashed Mellow Grooves 3

Label: Transient

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 07'43" Thievery Corporation : 2001 A Spliff Odyssey

02. 07'40" Cosmosis : Skankadelic

03. 05'09" Quaid : Galcyon

04. 04'28" Elysium Cray : Desolate Shore

05. 07'42" Astro : Mazz Bar Blue

06. 04'14" Arnica Montana : Eau De Malte

07. 04'57" Lumo : Scart

08. 06'24" Joe McGairl : The Traveller

09. 07'36" 12 Moons : The Voyage

 

CD 2

01. 05'43" Ju Ju Space Jazz : Secrets

02. 06'12" Van Bellen : Sensor Reprise

03. 06'06" 2 Player : Arizona

04. 08'03" Soft Wave : Plenitude (Part 1)

05. 11'49" Healer : As The Day Begins

06. 03'51" Arnica Montana : Sol Del Sur

07. 08'39" Graham Camp : Special Delivery

08. 07'14" Quaid : Sonar Trip

09. 06'25" Sonic Fusion : Monsoon

 

Review:

 

After amazing 1st & 2nd part of Mashed Mellow Grooves, I didn't

hesitated in buying the 3rd

part, and I must say that this is another great, different syled piece

of chill out release.

It begins with break chillin, relaxing & a little funky intro from well

known Thievery

Corporation, Cosmosis like always can't disapoint us, slow downtempo

track with relaxing & full

of effect guitar theme, it's masterpiece. The next to tracks are rather

typical relaxing

monotonic melodies, interesting rythms, it's not bad. Track from Astro

is a chill out

symphony of piano & guitar. Next up is short "flamenco" tune by Arnica

Montana, nice & funky.

After it groovy with full on very breakin original bassline track by

Lumo. Next track is also

typical, nothing special is in this one, just good piece of relaxing

music. Last track is a

fast & light, trancy 12 Moons production, this one is put here probably

to wake up after

chillin voyage.

Second CD starts with as always, totally weird Ju ju Space Jazz, there's

some vocals, guitars,

jazzy soundz, & etnical influences, everything mixed. The track from Van

Bellen is a little

boring, nothing is happening there, 3rd one is much better, slow & sad,

but with some diverse

melodic accents. Soft Wave is a electro pre taste of next excellent

Healer's production,

long, electro, full of relaxing sounds great production, it reminds me

the earliest Electric

Universe productions. Another Arnica Montana's track, also with lot of

latin guitar, but this

time is slower & more quiet then from 1st CD. After it another change of

style to dubby ambient.

Track from Quaid is cold drum n'bass with accents of dreaming guitar

melody. Last track is

rather fast, break chill out, lot of etnical vocals & guitar, good thing

to end the compilation.

This compilation is very good crossover of different chillout styles,

but I think previous

part were a little better, but this one is also worth cjecking 7/10

[freak51]

I found nothing redeeming in this one. A couple of tracks I could listen to,

but I found nothing worth paying for. Other labels have far surpassed this

series for chill-out stuff. The attempt to integrate with the dubby Thievery

Corp sound was a good idea and could still produce interesting results, just

not on this record. 3.5/10

[Guest SuttoXXX]

Being a big fan of the first two in the series, I had high expectations of this

album. For the most part, it does not disappoint. The first disc has many

good tracks, 3,6,8, and another great track from Lumo. The second disc is

significantly weaker than the first. No real standout track to remember, but

no awful selections either. I give this album a 7/10 just for the first disc

alone. Where is MMG4?

[Guest psionicwill[at]yahoo[dot]com]

Before you all carry on about the mediocrity of this album let me inform you of

some inside information about Quaid, those tracks where written about 6-7

years ago and all things considered where and are pretty ahead of their time,

just wanted to give some credit where credit is well due. Admittedly we are

entitled to our opinion but felt the need to point this out. Any comments

welcome.