{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Skip-IJ | type = studio | artist = State of Bengal | cover = State Of Bengal - Skip-IJ.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2007|df=y}} | recorded = Bengal Studios in East London, England | venue = | studio = | genre = {{flat list | * Electronic * hip hop * folk * World music * breakbeat * tribal * downtempo }} | length = {{Duration|m=65|s=40}} | language = {{flat list | * Bengali * English }} | label = Betelnut Records | producer = State of Bengal | prev_title = Tana Tani | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = | next_year = }}
'''''Skip-IJ''''' is the fourth studio album by dance music English DJ and music producer State of Bengal, released in 2007 by Betelnut Records.
==Critical response== {{Album ratings | rev1 = ''AsianVibrations.com'' | rev1Score = {{Rating|7|10}}
| rev2 = ''Indian Electronica'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}} }} Louis Patterson of ''BBC Music'' said of ''Skip-IJ'', "Proof that the Asian Underground can be both fun and thoughtful."<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |last=Patterson|first=Louis|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mphj|title=State of Bengal Skip-Ij Review|publisher=BBC Music|date=22 July 2007|access-date=1 September 2015}}</ref> Gaurav of ''AsianVibrations.com'' rated it 7/10 and said of the album, "State of Bengal gives us an album that you can listen to whenever you are in a dubbed out dnb mood. This is a true classic in the making (barring a few speed bumps)."<ref name="asianvibrations">{{cite news|url=http://www.asianvibrations.com/cgi-bin/readReviewSQL.cgi?albumNumber=123|title=Review of Skip-ij by: State of Bengal|author=Gaurav|date=24 September 2007|work=AsianVibrations.com|access-date=1 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519062742/http://www.asianvibrations.com/cgi-bin/readReviewSQL.cgi?albumNumber=123|archive-date=19 May 2009}}</ref> ''Indian Electronica'' said, "this album defies modern dance-floor convention with its wonderfully refreshing and bouncy rhythms - paradoxically sounding like a jazz throwback to break-beat employing an aesthetic which draws from Afro-Brazilian and Indian influence..."<ref name="indianelectronica">{{cite news|url=http://www.indianelectronica.com/reviews/music/211008/state-bengal-skip-ij|title=State of Bengal - Skip-ij|author=Gaurav|date=24 September 2007|access-date=1 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811231622/http://www.indianelectronica.com/reviews/music/211008/state-bengal-skip-ij|archive-date=11 August 2011|publisher=Indian Electronica}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | total_length = {{Duration|m=65|s=40}} | title1 = Skip-IJ | note1 = featuring Bola Adakimi | length1 = {{Duration|m=2|s=58}} | title2 = Hold It in My Heart | note2 = featuring Rosina Kazi | length2 = {{Duration|m=7|s=54}} | title3 = Play That Way | note3 = featuring Renu Hossain | length3 = {{Duration|m=5|s=16}} | title4 = Breathe In | note4 = featuring Nolan Weeks | length4 = {{Duration|m=6|s=18}} | title5 = Dushto Meyra | note5 = featuring Susmita Banerrjee | length5 = {{Duration|m=5|s=03}} | title6 = London to Dhaka | note6 = featuring Deeder Zaman | length6 = {{Duration|m=5|s=10}} | title7 = Mr. President | note7 = featuring Rosina Kazi | length7 = {{Duration|m=5|s=05}} | title8 = Get Down Like This | note8 = featuring Bola Ademkimi | length8 = {{Duration|m=4|s=45}} | title9 = Cha Na Na Na | note9 = featuring Johanna Marin and Renu Hossain | length9 = {{Duration|m=4|s=32}} | title10 = Sukno Patar | note10 = featuring Coco Varma and Suzana Ansar | length10 = {{Duration|m=5|s=28}} | title11 = Future People (Tsunami) | note11 = featuring Pundit Dinesh | length11 = {{Duration|m=6|s=03}} | title12 = Trip to the Moon | note12 = featuring Johanna Ramin and Marque Gilmore | length12 = {{Duration|m=7|s=08}} }}
==Personnel== *Luke Gifford – recording engineer *State of Bengal – mix engineer
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Discogs release|release=1971531|name=Skip-IJ|type=album}} *{{itunes|us/album/skip-ij/id288925780|''Skip-IJ''}} *https://stateofbengal.bandcamp.com/album/skip-ij-instrumental-album-version
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