This is most probably Richie Hawtin's career defining moment, though not as nearly as venerated as his Plastikman output. First of all, it's all that versatile, and still captures the essence of a real album, meaninig it encompasses an impressive amount of territory (electronic music wise), failing to stick to any one of them, but never sounds like a random 'FUSE: the collection' amount of tracks. You get everything from deep, warm melodies, menacing hard techno, ambient, minimal and repetitive musical patterns, dry and wicked acid, subtle and hard percussion, something for the mind and the feet.
I'm keen of the way in which "Dimension intrusion" isn't afraid to explore many paths, something I missed in his Plastikman projects, which very often stuck to a single mood and pulled it through an entire album. I guess it sounds like a combination of his straight forward, thumping, minimal acid stuff (think Krakpot), Speedy J's mid nineties playful and melody inclined breed of techno, with a touch of that heavy, bass driven stuff.
Favorite tracks are Theyck, a long and hypnotizing tune, with a smooth flow and a really trippy, laid back feel to it. Makes me drift away with my thoughts like few other tunes can, then Substance Abuse as a close second, with a deviant 'overdose' sample, coupled with female chants during the break down. Awesome, and hella nasty!
From Richie's mind into ours.

This is one of my favourite albums of all time. I just listened to it again for the first time in probably 8 or 9 years and it still sounds fantastic. Very simple and straightforward early 90s techno, but brilliantly and precisely composed. Easily up there with the finest electronic music in history.

'Theychx' is my absolute all-time favourite track - of any genre. It's impossibly beautiful and never fails to completely take me to a special headspace.

Can not recommend this album highly enough. Check it out!

Yes hypereall has it right on, this album is just amazing. This is one of my all time favorites and the tracks are classics, one after another. This is the kind of music that was just unreal thru huge sound where Richie could let the tracks go on and on with custom edits and freeflowing live work. This album proves how deft he was with acid, its awe-inspiring to me. A definite must have for anyone even remotely interested in acid.

This remains, more than a decade after its release, my all-time favourite album: I had to buy the CD because my white vinyl copy had become unlistenable. Hawtin's Plastikman material has eclipsed his earlier work but this is an often beautiful, often hard, but always intense work that showed how much he'd learned and developed since the earliest FUSE 12" releases on Plus 8. I wish he'd do some more stuff along the lines of 'Mantrax' or 'A New Day'.

I have to rate this as one of the albums that make me cry & the comments above do not even get near to scratching the surface architecture that creates this album.
From the melodic lead line to the eerie strings that make "a new day" and the emtion fuelled "dimension intrusuion" this album showcases the early experiments in the plastikman evolution. FUSE is the pre-plastikman pre-superstar dj hawtin at his best.My standout track on the album has to be "treychk"
it is a 13'' minute long journey into the inner reaches of hawtins first psyche.
"what's wrong" "for more enjoyment and greater efficiancy"
"take four red capsules , in ten minutes take two more"


I only wish that he had expanded more on his f.u.s.e. creations! becuase it is for me the cornerstone of his career

For many many reasons this is one of the best techno releases ever committed to vinyl! These tracks are not one-dimensional and display Richie Hawtin's best writing in his long and storied career. Some are deep and some are thumpin' hot, a few are timeless enough to be rendered classics, all are awesome. If you do not have this or have never heard it, find it, listen closely and enjoy one of the best techno forays ever recorded. I miss this kind of techno. It's "true", unlike the silliness portrayed in those stupid-ass Budweiser commercials. They should have a picture of this album cover with any of the tracks playing for 25 seconds and then mutter the word "TRUE".

What an awesome album. You have one of the best acid tracks by Richie Hawtin (Substance Abuse), a great harder techno track (F.U.), a really interesting syncopated acid groover (slac) and a whole bunch of spacy, hypnotic stuff.