Expo Expo

Artist: M-Flo
Label: Rhyth
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988064450213
ASIN: B00005HUSO

Release Date: 2001-03-28

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Tracks:

Japanese Title
Prism
Japanese Title
Expo Expo
What It Is
Orbit -3
Japanese Title
Dispatch
Magenta Rain
Japanese Title
Come Again
Japanese Title
Yours Only,
How You Like Me Now?
Japanese Title
Bandwagon

Customer Reviews:

Experience the Expo Expo Experience, Please!.......2005-10-04

I have only a few things to add to Adam Paul Bronson's excellent review.

There are several reasons why "Expo Expo" is such a compelling album. First of all, the music is fantastic. The backing tracks are a mix of hip-hop, jazz, soul, and electronica. When you stack Taku and Verbal's excellent rhyming and Lisa's pitch-perfect, soulful singing on top of that, you get a composition that is far greater than the sum of its parts. And finally, the subject of the lyrics: geek-core hip-hop. It is thus no surprise to find that Taku lists Macintosh computers among his favourite things in this, the only English-language info I have been able to dredge up on m-Flo: http://www.avexnet.or.jp/english/mflo/

I can also translate the song titles listed above as simply "Japanese Title":

1. Seimon (Main Gate)
3. Higashimon (East Gate)
7. Minamimon (South Gate)
10. Chuo Tower (Central Tower)
12. Nishimon (West Gate)
15. Arigatou (Thanks)

Another excellent album from M-Flo.......2001-09-11

M-Flo's 2nd album (well, 3rd if you count the also excellent remix album "The Replacement Percussionists") is another superb piece of work from the trio. All in all, the album seems to be more balanced than their previous work, and there were only 1 or 2 songs that didn't really grab my interest. The only downsides are that the transitional pieces (which cover an international "EXPO EXPO Experience" that can be jacked into using a special visor) didn't seem as interesting as "The Replacemnt Percussionists" and that the rap-centered songs on "EXPO EXPO" (Dispatch and EXPO EXPO) did not seem as clever and infectious as the ones on their 1st album, "Planet Shining" (saywhatchagotta and Quantum Leap).

More info about a few specific songs...

EXPO EXPO - Includes 2 guest rappers and is completely in English except for an odd computer voice in the background. I liked it.

Come Again - My personal favorite. Well done in both the rapping and non-rapping parts. A fun, lighthearted song.

Dispatch - Another song with 2 guest rappers. This time singing in Japanese as well as English. Japanese with a New York accent is an odd sounding creation. Strange lyrics including seperate bits about words and ultrasonic sounds emanating from the buttocks. This one didn't really appeal to me.

Orbit-3 - A song about a 3-way love triangle. Very much in sync with M-Flo's style. Excellent.

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