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MFA, The - Zone Day

Label:
Catalog#:
BPC109
Format:
Vinyl, 12"
Country:
Germany
Released:
04 Jul 2005
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Techno, Electro

Tracklist

A1   Disco 2 Break 7:30
    Vocals - Hywel Evans
A2   Rinse Time 6:18
B1   Overhang 7:51

Credits

Producer, Written-By, Recorded By - Alastair Douglas , Rhys Evans

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Review by Nov 06, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
Now this is a great record particularly because of one tune - "Overhang". It's difficult to say which genre this belongs to. It's a mixture of styles like House, Trance and Techno but most notibly there's a very strong Old-Skool Rave influence!

Featuring a wicked, big old-skool style riff, this is one hell of an uplifting tune. It's all carried along by a phat electro-disco bassline. The beats are housey but with a slight break and a cheeky little use of a much used sample back in the golden days of rave. Some dreamy, trancey sounds weave in and out to relieve the tension before the tune bursts into life again. Anyone who went to a rave in the early 90's and hears this one will be saying "Oh...I remember this one...What's it called?". This sounds like it was made in the early 90's but also has it's feet planted in the present.

"Disco 2 Break" is a pretty good electro/breaks effort but is ruined for me by some annoying vocals. "Rinse Time" is very good. Another old-skool tinged track which even comes complete with some nice bleeps. Sounds a bit like a breaksy remix of a Prodigy tune.

These guys obviously went to a few raves "back in the day" and felt quite nostalgic when making this record. Even the title hints at this. If "Overhang" doesn't get your party rockin' then it's time to call it a day and get an early night I reckon! WICKED TUNE!!!
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Review by jdflorette Jan 04, 2008
"Disco 2 break" is one of the most mezmerising tracks ive ever heard - all categories. It combines a very, very dark energy with some hopeful light in the tunnel.

Not at all feelgood music suitable for everyone, but a charging introvert feeling of raw power, sadness, doom and escapism; that in certain places flows out into something very beautiful with some chords that sound like a mixture of strings and a divine choir.

It slowly builds and builds balancing contradictionary emotions, creating the feeling that the introvert energy most get an outlet and that the song must take you someplace else... and then turns into the beutiful dejected twilight zone and you just wanna stay in that feeling forever.

Pure magic!