Sabres Of Paradise, The ‎– Sabresonic

A classic Warp-records release. Sabresonic is a intetesting wonderful musical journey through deep hypnotic melodies, club friendly electro-techno-house, and chilled beats inc a couple of atmospheric movie like ambient tracks - this is music you can't quiet pigeon-hole, but can relate too with certain genres. Each track tells its own story using atmosphere to grasp the listener into its twighlight club/downtempo grooves combined with melodic left-field sounds and its cool abstact indie appeal, that can easily envoke thoughts as well as grooves with a nice twist of a old school feel. Sabresonic came out before the classic AI series on Warp: Apex Twin 'Selected Ambient', B12 'Electro Soma', The Black Dog 'Bytes, Speedy J 'Ginger', R.H.Kirk 'Virtual State'...but this album should also be added to these classics with its cool music that is now over 10yrs old, yet still holds a unique unchallenged sound in electronic music.

My favorite "acknowledgment" of all time is printed on the back: "THE SABRES OF PARADISE would definitely NOT like to thank God!"

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Apart from having an incredibly cool cover art, The Sabres Of Paradise debut album, "Sabresonic", is a wonderful acoustic experience, loaded with juicy and hypnotic melodies, club friendly beats and deep ambient soundscapes. Think of stuff like early Sensurreal and Speedy J circa the "G Spot" era, just not as great.
The Sabres Of Paradise come around full circle here; this album really goess all over the pitch before making touch down. It is elegant, at times melodic and toned down, but then when it's not it turns into a club orientated album, with uptempo techno tunes, which never become overly mechanical or hard. That's right, Sabres Of Paradise go from straight up ambient (Clock Factory), to more leftfield and broken beat IDM (Ano Electro, R.S.D.), back to some faster tracks; Still Fighting , Smokebelch I, Inter-Lergen-Ten-Ko, which despite their slightly more dance crowd orientation feel, do not lose challenge or edge.
Basically, this is what you expected of Warp Records anno 1993. Not everything here stands the test of time, but some of these tracks mightily shine on more than fifteen years after their original release. Light, catchy melodic sequences layed over beats which can serve the purpose during any given occassion - the album does not contain enough bump to be used as a party soundtrack, yet simultaneously it has sufficient intrigue and material to teleport you in one of those "I'm all ears" situations.
Overall, not quite up there with the finest of them all Warp releases, but The Sabres Of Paradise bring forth an album which won't hit hard on your wallet and will most definitely bring a positive surprise or two to you. Bottom line is that this is a lovely old school techno album, with really nice and harmonic touch, so if you've enjoyed stuff like the early Revelation, the Artifical Intelligence various artists compilations or even the debut album by german duo Alter Ego, do not hesitate to purchase this one. It may even cost you less than any of the aforementioned releases, and you might find it just as good. Early nineties Warp goodness.