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Summary: Just happy to have found this
Comment: This is the type of funked up, high qu. production that I have been looking for. The other reviewers accurately synopsize the album, I just wanted to add my applause!! Nice work Chris!!!!
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Summary: Finally someone gets it!!
Comment: I've been searching quite a bit of music that has that retro flair with modern means of production for a while now. It seems that many artists end up not really knowing how to accurately catch that vibe and their watered down remixes and mashups are overproduced and overkill. This guy, Chris Joss, he knows where the funk lies and he digs it up and serves it on a hot platter. The drum sounds are just RIGHT ON; grooving and crusty and the toms just sound like cheap crappy kit that was recorded in the 70's. No, serious, that's good!! The bass grooves are locked in and the wah-ed guitar is just dripping in greasy funk. Greasy. Funky. There is but one time (a part in one song) where I thought it might be sinking into the electronica and DJ zone, but it's merely an affect that doesn't detract from the overall release. If this guy is a DJ or just samples stuff and works on his computer, he seriously has me fooled. You can smell the smoke filled recording studio with ugly 70's wallpaper that this was recorded in. This CD is just comfortable; it slips in and out of classy funk-ness and porn groove and puts a smile on the face of anyone that I play it for that digs the fine line created and crossed over of spy groove, 70's funk, bell bottom soundtracks and hot black chicks. Nothing that I've found comes close to capturing exactly what it intended like this CD. Like hip music? This is your stuff!
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Summary: One Groovy Trip
Comment: This recording is one of the most original and entertaining I own in my very large CD collection. One groovy trip through the sounds on this CD and you will swear you are back in 1977.
Completely incredible stuff which is both varied and very tasteful.
Don't hesitate, buy this CD especially if you desire something different and totally out of this world. If I could rate "You've Been Spiked" higher than 5 stars I would.
Thank you Chris!!!!!
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Summary: One of the best of its kind
Comment: Chris Joss really scored big with this one. From beginning to end there is a variety of modern twists on early 70's funk, jazz, "cheesy" disco, and lounge and there is not a weak track to be found. Many in fact, are as close to perfection as you'll find. The flow of YBS is without peer also, veering effortlessly from get-down-wit'-it to post-romantic psychedelia, and everything in between.
If you "get" this type of music at all, you will absolutely love this set. I can't think of a single album of its type that tops it, even though there are lots of good ones out there.
Great stuff, this. I am eagerly hoping that Mister Joss will grace us with a YOU'VE BEEN SPIKED II.
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Summary: RIGHT OOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!
Comment: Chris Joss delivers some serious blaxploitation inspired grooves that will wisk you back to the times of bell bottoms, afros and platform shoes! Joss' "You've Been Spiked" is a retrospective piece of marvellously produced tracks that pays true homage to an era that gave us some of the funkiest music ever! In fact, this music sounds so authentic you would think they came straight out of the 70's...but it's all circa the 21st century. It's good to know that there are still modern cats (especially on the ESL Record label)who know how to recapture music from days gone by.
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