Review: Eighteen tracks make up this latest compilation from St Petersburg's DOBRO label, but let's focus on just two of them. BDK's 'Tender Love' is a mid-90s sounding poppy houser with a saccharine, near-falsetto female vocal - in the old days you could have flipped it to find a speed garage remix from Sol Brothers, Gant or Nu-Birth - while Ten Fingerz' 'Wee Groovy Thing' is a deep, jazzy, delicate piano piece with an extended spoken word breakdown in the middle. The two are very different and shouldn't go together, but heard in the context of 'DOBRO Tape 005', hearing the latter after the former is like slipping into a nice hot bath after a good workout - just what the doctor ordered! Now take that musical breadth and faultless programming, multiply it by 16 more cuts spanning deep, disco and acid house as well as nu-disco and boogie, and let's face it... you need this album, don't you?
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