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- Summary: There's at least one guest vocalist on each of the 18 tracks on this latest solo outing from electronic producer Roni Size.
- Record Label: Thrive
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 11
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Mixed: 9 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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UrbRoni really hits home near the end, the last seven tracks making the album purchase (and the wait) more than worth it. [Dec 2004, p.110]
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It's well produced and mixed, but lacks the edge to make it really interesting.
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BlenderThe samey, smothering beats make it inaccessible to anyone without a pacifier in their mouth. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.111]
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Unfortunately though, Return to V isn't a back-to-basics record, and there isn't a single landmark to pick out from its 18 tracks.
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While collaborations with the likes of Viktor Duplaix ("Pull Up"), Rahzel ("Out of Breath") and British MC's Darrison ("Time") and Dynamite MC ("No More") provide interesting listens, nothing here is as revolutionary as such Roni Size classics as "New Forms" or Breakbeat Era's "Ultra Obscene."
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While Size's ideas are more rampant, they haven't developed enough.
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This album could easily have been released in the mid-Nineties, when Size and his V Records crew pointed the way forward. Ten years later, it is just a skittery nostalgia trip.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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F4bMay 22, 2005Not his best work, but one of the most multi-directional. Nice.
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