Review by cthulhu303Oct 08, 2005(edited over 4 years ago)
At times where the parallel market is boiling regarding certain artists, labels and releases, at times where it is all about speculation, far, far away from the original idea(l)s behind a certain type of music, this repress series comes as a bubble of fresh air. Firstly, it is profitable for the artist, not the very people who speculate, selling catalogue numbers, rather than music media. Secondly, it gives the younger, less educated afficionados an opportunity to discover that music on a better support than a battered piece of plastic from the 1990s, bought ten or twenty times the price it was originally sold for. Thirdly, as this is a compilation, one might expect something worth it. Perhaps a good track. Perhaps even SEVERAL good tracks.
This is what this first release is about: some of the most sought after tracks from the SP 23 back catalogue that were totally unaffordable for the average wallet and anyway, almost impossible to find, superbly cut on a fresh piece of wax and - guess what! - they are very good too! A long, fierce industrial Acid pounder and a smoking very hard techno blast. The new track is a bit weak, unfortunately, but does not alter the joy of (re)discovering the two classics.
"This is Network 23, the network that means business, now transmitting live to the world..."
This is what this first release is about: some of the most sought after tracks from the SP 23 back catalogue that were totally unaffordable for the average wallet and anyway, almost impossible to find, superbly cut on a fresh piece of wax and - guess what! - they are very good too! A long, fierce industrial Acid pounder and a smoking very hard techno blast. The new track is a bit weak, unfortunately, but does not alter the joy of (re)discovering the two classics.
"This is Network 23, the network that means business, now transmitting live to the world..."