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Thank You, Mark Doyle!

Dean Halpern | San Francisco, CA USA | 04/09/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It seems Mark Doyle left Hed Kandi in 2005 and started up Fierce Angel Records in 2006. I haven't heard the other releases flying under the new flag, but this one is HOT HOT HOT! I also bought one or two of the more recent Hed Kandi release (after taking a break for a while) and consider this to be far superior in many ways.

It is a great combination of deep house, vocal house, and electro house, all seamlessly put together in an unmixed format (being a DJ, I really appreciate the unmixed format). One beautiful track just rolls on into the next . . . the song gap is just long enough to create excitement and anticipation for the next rockin' musical dance journey. It's a modern, fiercely current collection of songs, but has it's roots in classic house . . . it's not all beep and blaps like alot of electro dance music these days. These songs have structure and composition, and forgo repetitiveness for creativity and verve.

Granted, not all the songs are winners, but there are enough standout amazing tracks on these 3 discs to earn a 5 star rating in my book. I haven't even made it all the way through Disc 3 and I can say that already! Here are some of my favorites:

* Cocoon by Bonnie Bailey

* Chick by Def Jaguar

* Turn It Around by The Marches

* Till We Meet Again by Rekelectrik

* Ride the Storm by Carl Kennedy (crazy good track)

* Seasons of Jack by Grant Nelson

* Turn my Life Around by Mike de Scala

* Automatic by Ultra Nate (a great remix)

* Don't Matter by Club 4 Life

* The Real Thing by Tony di Bart



Rock on, party people!

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