John Beltran Featuring Open House ‎– Earth & Nightfall

The previous comments about Fragile are good, but I'm surprised the consensus is not raving about Earth & Nightfall (5:18 version)...that's the go to track in my opinion. The first 3 minutes are sheer moody beauty! Detroit techno/house at some of it's best!

I've heard on the french radio "Nova" somebody who said approximately : "Nowaday, many electronic music producers are not able to make music with soul. But, according to me, one day, the electronic music will become more organic, more human".

I have to say, he's right about the actual fashion of electronic music productions : more prosaic than poetic or maybe too "scientific".
I'm ok with that, but I have to say equally : the organic electronic music does exist since longtime. The Beltran & Open House's track named "Fragile" is a fantastic example of what can be the "organic electronic music with soul".

Fragile is a crossover between groove and deepness with a constant creativity during all the track. The result is epic : something really singular with ...soul.

John Beltran's slab of epic here. What he learned on Aquatic comes full force here on Fragile. Because of the melody I rate this higher than Aquatic by only a half star at best. 5 stars and 4 and a half respectively. This track could play for hours and you would never tire. John Beltran made a career from the direction this track took. When you make a well respected underground career and you can pinpoint it to one record that's how important an beloved this record is by those who have it. Most of John Beltran's melody approaches are all wrapped up and executed here in just one song. They just don't get much more meaningful than this.

The pressing is poor, apparently for both the clear vinyl version and the dark grey vinyl version - this is noticeable in tracks A2 and B2, where crackling appears towards the end.

re-issued as clear vinyl with different label marking the label not as 33rpm records/sinewave but simply sinewave.