Review on DJ Xoduzz - Paul

DJ Xoduzz
Paul
2Hype Ent. / bb&co.

You can get the album here. The following is a review of a few selected individual tracks that I found fascinating. Reason for not having just a general review is simply because I thought that every track is unique in its own way.

Track 1: A very rappy and hip hop beat that is not my really my normal preference, but this song is fetching in that it has a lot of tempo changes and minor beat changes that song as if nothing really changed. You can hear the difference if you start the song, listen for a few seconds and then going to the end of the song. There are some ambient sounds that actually travel from the left to the right and vice versa. They are not loud so that the balance of sound is off in the other ear when no ambient happens in that side. A very active track overall.

Track 2: This is a fine example of one of those songs that you tend to dread to end because it gets so repetitive. The beat is literally the same throughout the track and it is the same beat when the song ends. The song does not have anything interesting to make up for a boring beat, even the melodies and ambients are boring and repetitive.

Track 3: The beat in this song does not last through the whole song, but the bass is a bit loud. Starting at 2:20, there are some sounds that sound like a piano underwater played through tubes. There are a few of these solos throughout the track and they move the song forward because it goes with the beat so well that you anticipate the short solos.

Track 4: This song is similar to track 1, the variety in beats and melodies make this song very upbeat, it never gets boring. I have noticed that in a few of the songs, the beat, melody, and ambient are all recreated by DJ Xoduzz. In the past, many DJs simply remix the beat, but the beats here are original to some extent. In this track for example, the beat is clearly not the original because during the rapping parts, the beat and melody is more old school funk than a hip hop style.

Track 6: I have almost all the remixes there are to this song and there is something different about this version of "Because of You" by Ne-Yo. Around the 1:50 mark, the melody there is actually from another song, but it goes well with this song. The piano-ized version of the beat and melody of the original is new and refreshing.

The rest: The songs started to go downhill from here. The bass and beat in each song after was decent because an effort was made so that it was not constant throughout the song. However, the ambient and the overall song sounds like rap with a rock band and orchestra playing the ambient and making the beat.

Overall, the style of creating a new beat and replacing the original rap and hip hop beats with a new one is very refreshing. The style of the past was that the beat is simply remixed and not completely recreated. By beat being remixed, the tempo is changed and the drum and bass line is simply modified by adding a few extra beats. The beats are recreated in that new instruments are used and in most of the songs the beat is not what you will hear in the original. Most people will not enjoy this type of remixed beat and original rap combination because this is a more modern style of break beating and the more old school style is just remixing the original beat.