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I picked up a copy from Amazon.com as soon as it was available. Kind of disappointing to me, actually. Not as lush as Deaf, Dub and Blind and leaning more towards the sort of intentionally-stupid-sounding synth funk that the whole Pharma crew is known for. I like that stuff but I've already got too much of it. Dropout Dub and a couple of other tracks are pretty good, but there's some serious junk on the album that I just didn't want to be bothered with. Plus I already had Dropout Dub from my copy of Electric Ladyland VI, dammit. Tom

On 8 Mar 99, Tom Millar wrote re: Re: (idm) Jammin' Units new cd on p:

quoted 1 line Plus I already had Dropout Dub from my copy of Electric Ladyland VI, dammit.

> Plus I already had Dropout Dub from my copy of Electric Ladyland VI, dammit.

exactly the point I keep making in music shops when checking through "new" stock ::: why do so many comp's have the SAME tracks from the same artists? Sure, feature 9 Lazy 9, but does it always have to be Black Jesus? (etc. etc.) (Looked at Shadow Masters the other day - lots of promising looking stuff, but on closer inspection, so many duplicates of what I already have.) Blah ... I *