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• Artist: Various Artists
• Album: Reboot: Notes For The Next Generation
• Label: Om
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2005-09-12

This disc is a collection of soul and hip-hip tracks created to raise awareness of African children orphaned by AIDS. While the crisis is of horrific, Biblical proportions there, in the West AIDS seems to be fading from public memory, and will probably continue to do so until a celebrity gets it. Any attempt to raise awareness and money for the kids is welcome and necessary.
The powerful opening track/poem, Jeremy Sole's Musaic's "A Call To Action" faces the crisis head on, and sets the tone in explicit terms. Also in the vien of raising an angry voice and pointing the finger at all of us are DJ Tonk's "Forgive Me" and Tryodon, with "Listen Up." Marques Wyatt feat. Gina Rene on "Come together, Love Together"; and DJ's at Work, "Lift me up" offer hope for the future, as does the always amazing. Afro-Mystik, with "Miracles."
Amidst the groove, Latin-influenced tracks such as Louie Vega's "Steel Congo" lighten the mood somewhat, dancing can offer hope too, though maybe more for the people in a position to help rather than those suffering. But the hip-hop community is doing more than other genres--and most governments-in raising awareness and calling on us to see our responsibility in this tragedy. Such honesty is worth a thousand Bono's.

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