You will be forgiven for thinking 'Kam Who?' because you're probably not the only person out there who doesn't exactly have their finger on the pulse when it comes to the bhangra scene. After all your not exactly walk into a shop and buy an album of a guy you've never heard of, but that's where people like me come into it and tell you whether its worth buying. For those of you that do know him you may remember his debut effort called 'Golden Child' which lets face it wasn't all that.

Anyway Gold Rush, Its starts off with a favourite of Zee Music, 'Giddeh Vich', which to be quite honest is absolutely fantastic! Has such a desi feel to it but still makes an impact in a market dominated by tunes which seem to cater especially for those boy racer types with amps and bass-tubes worth more than their cars (usually Honda). Ok, so this doesn't exactly stretch the fantastic capabilities of your Kenwood, but its definitely captured the imagination of a lot you lot, and you know what? I agree. What I like most about this is that is has potential as a nice chill out track, the type you put on in your room when you've just your 8-hour shift on telesales. Also you can imagine it speeded up a bit with some extra bass and being played in a club, good one Kam.

'Oh Kudi' starts off like one of those shitty, annoying adverts you get at the end of an album, I seriously thought I'd been given a dodgy CD with all the tracks in the wrong order, but to my relief after the initial baqwaas it gets to the good stuff. Don't get me wrong, my opening statement about this track may have given you the false impression that I don't like this track, on the contrary, its wicked. Got a nice strong bass feel throughout, lyrics are great as well. Only downside to this that some of the MC'ing really isn't all that, also seems like the sung part has been slowed down to try and match the music but its still slightly mismatched, it's a minor thing and a majority of people wont even notice it, so not to worry Mr Bhamra. It features all of four MC's all in 1 track (Monster, Coso, Gyver, Slider), so I guess you will do well to know who is saying what.

Onto Track 3 which is 'Teri Meri' which is an average song, fantastic music, but it's the music, which is the problem, it's given far too much emphasis in the context of the track, drowning the lyrics so as not to give it impact. If you do go to the effort on concentrating on the lyrics they aren't really anything special so maybe it was a good thing to drown them out.

'Gali Wich' what to say about this? If I told you before you hear this track that its got wicked bass and a nicely plagarised line from a classic track, what would think? If your answer was good track you are going to be horrendously let down. Its really not worth bothering with, I did say the music was ok, but as I listen to track again as I type this I'm beginning to rather regret that statement, the lyrics have been sung in a style which would have been better off being read out by a Gora with a speech impediment.

I really the music on 'Nach Lai', I bet your waiting for a put down statement know I've given it some praise, but I'm not, the music is rather good. As for the lyrics and singing though, lets just say I went to Pakistan once and heard some street buskers who sound a lot like this.

After my brief spell of dissing Mr K.B enough to have him and the whole of team of his sending me hate mail, which would possibly block my hotmail account, I get to 'Tak Sajana'. Not a bad word to say, music is perfectly in tune to the mood of the song, singing is perfectly fine. Shame it's a rip off a Pakistani song (sorry couldn't help but say something bad). As I'm typing this, my mum heard this on in my room and commented on how this has done 'Satiya Naas' of a perfectly nice song, but I don't think so.

The Juttla Remix of the 1st track 'Giddeh Vich' follows this. It gives us an alternative from the original but all I can say it's just a case of making the tune worse that it was before which tends to be the case in a lot of remixes these days. It's got more of garage vibe to it with the desi element, which is exactly what made the original so good, taken out. I suppose it keeps the anti hard-core desi crew happy.

Boliyan is the last track, which features Kam in a duet with Meena Kumari. It's one of those which switches tempo's from slow to fast and vice versa. It has been very well arranged the beats being top notch. It's just goes on and on for an amazing six minutes. Having said that I can't say I got bored listening to it, so for me to say that to such a long tune they must have done something right to keep me entertained. It's another one of those tunes that you listen to when in a nice chilled out mood.

Overall, it's a good little album, has a few really top tracks, and a few that are, lets just say, not that good. The reoccurring theme you have probably noticed is that I've been very impressed by the music in all the tracks very desi but at the same time very up-to-date. Overall I'd give it 7/10 as there is enough quality production with a nice variety of tunes to give you an above average album. It shows that Kam has come on a long way since his debut.