Mixed Blessings

Artist	Lotek Hi-Fi
Format	CD
Genre	Rap
Label Name	Big Dada
Release Date	2005 10 04
Song List	1: Ram Dancehall (4:28) 2: How It Go (3:02) 3: Blessings (1:55) 4: Feel No Way (3:52) 5: What You See (3:48) 6: Slowburn (3:45) 7: Dazzla Interlude (1:11) 8: Move Ya Thing (3:36) 9: Sticks and Stones (4:11) 10: Showdown (3:54) 11: Can't Believe (4:03) 12: Time Has Come (3:25) 13: Diatribe (3:04) 14: Who's Laughing Now (3:30) 15: Showdown (Reprise) (1:07)
Style.Categories	Underground Rap, British Rap, Hardcore Rap

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The Lotek Hi-Fi producer Wayne Bennett has one of the most distinctive styles in hip-hop -- a bleak, punchy ragga digitalia of the same type that informed Detroit techno and jungle in the past. It's not ragga/dancehall and it's not British grime, but it's influenced by the former and has influenced the latter. The second Lotek Hi-Fi album finds the vocalist crew trimmed to a duo of Aurelius and Wayne Paul -- although former member Earl J. features on the opener -- and the sound equals what made the first record special. Equal, that is, but never greater than. Bennett's productions are technically adept and always innovative, but rarely have a hook anywhere to recommend them, while the threesome doesn't have the vocal personality and power to compete with most rappers. Mixed Blessings is a solid record, but it shows Lotek planing out rather than rising, and has to be counted a disappointment considering the high standard of quality that usually appears on Big Dada releases. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide