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Criminal Element Orchestra: Locked Up (Epic LP/Cassette/CD)

Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 6 January 1990

ARTHUR BAKER is generally credited with having several parts of his anatomy in touch with the living pulse of modern dance music. If this is true, then the Criminal Element Orchestra — an amorphous agglomeration of rappers, scratchers and mixers headed by Baker himself — proves that modern dance music is a very sick animal indeed.

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