ttgapers.com

Locale Selector - Click for default
| | | | | | |

ttStore Home
Show Featured Items

 Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do

Artist(s):

Major Lazer

Label: Downtown
Publisher(s):

Downtown

Studio: Downtown
Manufacturer: Downtown
Binding: Audio CD
MPN: 70088
Format(s): Explicit Lyrics
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $13.68
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Similar Items:

I Love You

Warm Heart of Africa

Album

Bitte Orca

Beast Rest Forth Mouth

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2

Ashes Grammar

The Ecstatic

Post-Nothing

La Roux

Track Listing

1.

I'll Make Ya - Major Lazer, Mr Lex, , Santigold

2.

When You Hear the Bassline - Major Lazer, Ms. Thing

3.

Can't Stop Now - Major Lazer, Mr. Vegas, , Jovi Rockwell

4.

Lazer Theme - Future Troubles, Major Lazer

5.

Anything Goes - Major Lazer, , Turbulence

6.

Cash Flow - Jah Dan, Major Lazer

7.

Mary Jane - Major Lazer, Mapei, Mr. Evil,

8.

Bruk Out - Major Lazer, Ms. Thing, , T.O.K.

9.

What U Like - Amanda Blank, , Einstein, Major Lazer

10.

Keep It Goin' Louder - Ricky Blaze, Major Lazer, Nina Sky,

11.

Pon de Floor - Major Lazer, Vybz Kartel

12.

Baby - Major Lazer, Prince Zimboo

13.

Jump Up - Leftside, Major Lazer, Supahype

Editorial Reviews

Album Description

Major Lazer is the Grammy-nominated super producer duo of Switch and Diplo, best known for their work with M.I.A and the hit 'Paper Planes', as well as production work for the likes of Santogold, Amanda Blank, Bondo do Role and Tricky. Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do is a Reggae and Dancehall explosion just in time for summer, with guest vocals from friends Mapei, Santogold and Amanda Blank; as well as Dancehall mainstays like Nina Sky, Vybz Cartel, Ward 21 and Busy Signal, among many others.

Customer Reviews

enjoyable, but not incredible

This album is silly.....really silly.....almost painfully so. It's also the kind of album I would pick up just for the cover (do yourself a favor and google the image). As the side project of electronic mash-masters Diplo and Switch, it's not meant to do anything other than entertain. The most important statement it makes is that the fusion of lazers and reggae music was long overdue.

Yo son this stuff is mad decent...

After spending most of the decade throwing parties, releasing mix tapes, and occassionally dabbling in production, Diplo and Switch manage to live out a record junkie's final dream: collaborating with their favorite artists in Jamaica. Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do is the natural progression from last year's excellent Top Ranking, subtracting the classics and adding fresh dancehall and riddim tracks. If anything, this record is a pastiche of world dance music and its universality today. I do mean today. More specifically right now.

The influence of dancehall and riddim worldwide is incalculable. Instead of plunging into the esoteric, we really get the hits. And the big cats who make them. Mr Vegas lends his voice to the rootsy vibe of "Can't stop now," looping breezy roots reggae till we sleep with smiles. Crossover hit "Keep It Going Louder" has the Nina Skye's reggaeton dripping all over the vocoder. Vybz Kartel lets the rhythm hit "Pod de floor'" for the riddim heads. Like I said, it's about now.

The problems with this record are miniscule in comparison to what it adds to the musical landscape of the first decade of this millenium. "Cash flow" could have been a hit if it was grittier and Prince Zimboo should have given us a full verse on "Baby" but that's ok. I'll take Santigold's cameo and "Can't stop now" riding that Nora Dean track to heaven and back again. Recommended.

Solid first album for the duo

I first heard about these guys when gizmodo posted their video for "Pon de Floor". The premise for the video's pretty funny and I couldn't stop watching it. At any rate, I decided to check out the rest of their album and it's really good. If you're feeling tired, it will definitely wake you up. A few of the songs I liked were:
Hold the Line
Lazer Theme
Cash Flow
Keep it Goin' Louder
Pon De Floor

Apparently they recorded this album in Jamaica, so it has a reggae-infused electronica sound. If you've listened to MIA at all, I think you'll recognize it a little bit because one of the members did some production for her. Oh yeah and one more thing, don't forget to check out the video for Pon De Floor on youtube.

Crazy creative

There's only one track (keep it going louder) where autotune annoys the hell out of me and it's the weakest track. Everything else is just insane from roots reggae to a baltimore dancehall hybrid, it's definitley the soundtrack for a Jamaican zombiekiller and for my summer.

Diplo is the greatest

Diplo has got to be one of the best producers in music right now. Everything he touches is golden. Diplo and Peanut Butter Wolf should collaborate on something. That might be the only thing better than Major Lazer. Get into it.

Please keep in mind that some of the content that we make available to you through this application comes from Amazon Web Services. All such content is provided to you "as is". This content and your use of it are subject to change and/or removal at any time.
Powered by PNAmazon © 2003-2009 ttgapers.com