DJ Misjah & DJ Tim - Access

Seriously now, Access is one of the most inspiring pieces of electronic music - ever! Starting off with a ridiculously hard and fast drum kick accompanied by an equally menacing bass line, it stops only for a brief moment a few minutes into the track, and then following a crescendo of screaming 303s, it transforms into a high octane acid techno burner, never looking back once it really takes off!
Fairly simple in all its greatness, but it's perfectly pitched, with a classic build up, which is just turgid with desire to be unleashed upon the party crowd. It still occasionally slips into modern DJ sets, and believe me, it has lost zero power and its devastating effect is still fully in tact. Truly a classic, and quite probably the best track to have ever been recorded under the X-Trax imprint, although Temple Of Acid is my own personal favorite.
My only complaint with this otherwise awesome release is the feeble choice of tracks on the flip side. Switch is a track which goes nowhere, but samples an anti Vietnam war speech courtesy of Martin Luther King, which is cool to mix with a more intense sounding tune. Extravaganza is all but extravagant... Just a dull six and a half minutes of music, but you won't even notice you've been listening to anything else but the title track. Trust me, if you still haven't, whenever and wherever might it be that you see a CD or a 12" with DJ Misjah & DJ Tim- Access written on it, don't waste time and count your dimes, just grace yourself with a copy. Your music collection deserves one.

Even if you don't know the name of it, "Access" is a tune you HAVE heard in a nightclub. Probably lots of them, in fact.

When it first appeared every single DJ who could get his hands on a copy caned it to death. Essentially a fairly minimal acid track, Access has a bassline so addictive with a repetitive acid stab that you can't help liking it. It's not untrue to say the track has passed almost into legend as one of the definitive acid "trance" records (not really techno, not really house). Even now after many remixes and re-releases later it still rocks a dancefloor.

For me, Access began a long love affair with X-trax and that Dutch 'shuffle' sounding techno. Unlike many of my favourite tunes, Access is more like an old friend than just a record - all three copies I own! Make no mistake, it's up there with Acperience and Circus Bells.

Misjah and Tim, thanks for the music..