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• Artist: Greyboy
• Album: Soul Mosaic
• Label: Ubiquity
• Year of Release: 2004
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2004-09-16

I have been hearing so much about Greyboy in the past few years and the stiffs at Ubiquity felt that I wasn't good enough to receive review material so I actually ventured out and purchased a copy of Soul Mosaic to see what all the fuss was about. I was presented with one of the most organic electronic albums I have heard. Soul Mosaic is right, with a proper subtitle of "A Case Study In Beats, Soul and Funk". The intro track is called "Genevieve" and it features a talented vocalist called Bart Davenport who has more soul than many brothers out there. The track is perfect in its delivery and if you don't hear all of Soul Mosaic, you need to hear this song. Bart is on a two other tracks as well. Looking for some cutting edge hip hop? Well, track 3, "Bronson" featuring the vocal talents of Mainflo is one of the best tracks I have heard this year. Another clever track is "Make Music" one with a heavy electronic synth providing rhythm but the vocals, bongos and sax give it life and power. It is rare in the beat ridden world where vocals do have soul. Greyboy and company pull it off and make it look easy. I'm still not sure of the value of remixes of songs on the same albums as the original songs but Greyboy feels that "Genevieve" and the funk fest "Got To Be A Love" are included in a reworked state at the end of the album. The "Got To Be A Love" remix is basically just fed through a filter giving a vinyl feel. A waste if you ask me. Andreas Stevens, aka Greyboy, proves to be an awesome producer, though, crossing hip hop, jazz, soul and electronica music to become something of its own. As I said, this is my first taste of what Greyboy has to offer but it is well worth the price of the album.

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