TO KOOL CHRIS
Mixin It Up Volume One (Renegade Records)
Reviewed by Rusty Pipes

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To Kool Chris (Chris Chudzik) does it up in go for broke house style, using a lot of sexy rapping, samples and not a whole lot of melody over a slightly distorted kick drum beat, but without a lot of really deep bass lines. There's actually about 40 tracks here and of course TKC moves smoothly between them every 90 seconds or so. The better tracks include his own "Esta Loca" and Fast Eddie's "I Want U Girl."

I get the impression this is a re-release of something he did awhile ago because there's already 3 others in this series, plus there's a quick sample of Technotronic's "Pump Up The Volume" at the start and a line about "96 Mix" a couple tracks in. Megamix CDs are a dime a dozen and Mixin It Up is better than most, but still it's only a B, not an A. He's probably a lot more fun live with a lot of lights and smoke and babes and about three Red Bulls to keep you dancin that long.

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