In Sync - Storm / Warm

One the finest tracks techno tracks you are likely to hear (imho). It builds, breaks down and returns...Fantastic production. Get's me *every* time. Cheers In-Sync & Irdial.

Two swigs from a bottle of vintage nectar, from a master vintner. These tracks are now about 17 years old. Nevertheless, in my view, you will find more intrigue, idiosyncracy and just foot-awakening magic in each of them than resides in the entire 50 or so clicking, whip-cracking f**k-and-forget European house tracks which are released every week. The titles 'Storm', 'Warm' are evocative but not much more than a wry reference to the first Gulf War which raged at the time of the first release. Apart from that, both tracks are exceedingly 'warm' sounding yet at the same time stark in portraying that essential minimalism of back in the day, which had as much to do with the limitations of hardware technology, as any deliberate gender-squatting. 'Storm' and 'Warm' embody the principle of simplicity which comes from the heart and hence remains in tune with the heart.

The following comment comes from Lee In Sync himself, on the music released on "Storm":

"There are only 4 instruments in the track - all Roland, 2 SH-101s, 1 TR-808 and 1 TR-909. There was no hardware sequencer either. Everything was synched using the drum machine triggers. The notes were recorded on the SH-101 onboard sequencers, so the tune was very limited. Also, one of the SH-101s was not working properly. I could not record the same note twice in the sequencer for some reason. You can't really set up a more basic studio than I used for that track. The track was a production nightmare in reality. I am surprised it ever made it to vinyl. There is tape noise on the recording where the cassette deck level was way to low. But....it does sound like rain. It all went wrong but ended up right it seems".

A seminal piece of UK techno/electronica and proof that less is so much more. This is the kind of track that is as good to listen to as it is to dance to and all this from a cassette recorded master.