John Digweed - Global Underground 019: Los Angeles

Essential John Digweed darkness on this double disc. The mixing on this release is outstanding and I want to bring attention to my favorite blend which is disc 2, track 5 "Inner Laugh" into track 6 "The Fall". Digweed rides the blend for 2 minutes or more. He takes you straight into his custom edited version of "The Fall" where the breakdown is significantly extended as compared to the official version released on vinyl. The result is a total mind bending percussive blend of epic proportions.

This Album is one of my best ever. It reminds me when i was starting college and just wanted to go home to put my headphones, laid on bed and listen cd2, paying speciall relax attention to the mix of One Last Time and Genesis. In fact, I painted a pastell colors picture just drawing those colors and music senses. Awsome!!. I recomended to listen it to those people who consider that time as the best electronic music year as the realeases of pure clasics. Try to draw it, its very visual... Dam high visual.

A fantastic set, with some stellar tracks that appear to have aged well in six years. I'm having trouble thinking of an adjective besides "epic" to describe most of these tunes. As had happened with many other mix releases, Digweed is responsible for introducing the world to a new set of producers because he gets the tracks before everyone. I've listened to every (commercially released) mix he's done since, and they all pale in comparison to this.

I've heard more than one person say the first disc is slow, but I disagree. It starts very quietly, but launches quickly into high drama, absolutely dripping with big sounding songs, and perfectly evokes the mood of a night out in Los Angeles.

I think the only real weak points of Disc 1 are the first and last songs, which don't really seem to go anywhere. It just feels like gear shifting.

Disc 2 starts brilliantly. (I still prefer this version of "Sanctuary" to van M's released version on Bedrock.) And it ends strong, but gets a little bland in between.

One of the great commercially released mixes of the decade, for sure.

This CD is what serious progressive music is about. Can't believe I read a review that said he nearly fell asleep. This will go down as not only one of the best GU releases ever, it will be one of the best mix CDs ever.

CD 1 is perfect warmup, dark progressive tracks that are blended in seamlessly by Digweed. Happy to sit back and listen even after 5 years.

But CD 2 is what it is all about. From the onset this is the Bomb. It is hard to highlight as I could go through all 11 tracks but if I have to highlight then the mixes of One Last Time into Genesis (one of the best tracks ever laid down) in Carnival XIII is absolutely majestic. Special mentions to The Fall, Inner Laugh and One.

If you are serious about your progressive this CD is a must own. Will stand the test of time for ever. Sure I will be pulling this out in 2030 and telling people that this is what it was all about early in this century.

They just don't make them like this anymore unfortunately, but they didn't really make them this good beforehand either. Classic.

GU 019 LA was the first time i was exposed to a digweed mix, and (particularly disc1) blew me away with its dark, defiant, even somewhat desolate sound. several years later, and having a far more superior knowledge of house music, i listened to it again...and found i appreciated even more its fluid, intelligent mixing, and dark, dirty edge. they don't make em like this anymore. a darn shame...

the track selection is pretty much perfect in terms of flow...brooding, minimal tribal cuts build into the big ones, and even those darker tracks are a cut above the influx of similar tunes from around then - DJ Gogo's Adyssa stands out for me on CD2, and Bipath's Paranoize on disc 1. The mixing is probably the most seamless i have heard on any CD. amazing...

re-defines the surroundings with evolving depth and emotional darkness, a sense of sound from futuristic highways. perfect music for low light environments, blends sensual voices with lush steel and stealthy tech-material

John Digweed illustrates a path connecting a subliminal selection of tracks through state of the art programmed mixing, and that i think, sets John Digweed on a unique platform

GU 019 Los Angeles contain serious music for progressive listening. interpretation is subject to evolve and morph through time as much as it is subject to innerself perception, in relation to the way the sound blends with the current surroundings

i like this 2xCD release, take it anywhere, with your headphones on, and let the music carry you, places will never look the same. worth a lifetime

I love digweed, but just didnt get that excited about the track selection on these 2 discs.
communicate for me was a far superior set of discs, and will be the one to beat for quite sometime.
there are a few highlights on the set, including satoshi and jimmy van m, but i have heard a lot better all in all.

Perhaps one of Diggers' finest GU performances, LA boasts a fluidity of track selection and technically proficient mixing that is quite off the hook. I would definately rank GU LA as a premier element of the rather phenomenal series.

Digweed is the master of the flawlessly programmed mix,and this finds him at the height of his powers.
Constructing two very deep,dark and purist sets of 'dubby'
progressive,the programming and mixing defy belief,placing Digweed in a league of his own.
This mix has been often immitated,and it has set the standard for both progressive music and the art of the
mix-CD.Insperational.