Sasha - Xpander EP

Dont get me wrong this is an awesome 4 tracker and I love all the songs but what is all this rubbish about Sasha creating this unbelievable track "expander" ?
Expander is a great track but if your into your Prog house, you may remember it in the back of your head.

Pull out the "live" mix of Spooky "little bullet" and you will notice it was produced my Charlie May (the man who Sasha worked with on "Expander")
You'll soon realise that expander is just remix.

If you don't believe me do a search on Youtube.

Together with 'Heaven Scent' by Bedrock, 'Xpander' heralded the second coming of Progressive House. From here on for the next few years virtually every producer in the 4 to the floor sphere made their productions ever more progressive, and if they didn't, they usually got cast by the way side.

Out of the four tracks here, the title track 'Xpander' is the best known and most accessible. It's an epic 11 and half minute journey to another world where everything seems just perfect. With its infectious sweet melody (that Charlie May just happened to have lying around) it is in equal measures trance as it is progressive house. Some well positioned breaks provide it a credible cross over appeal and make it great fun to beat mix.

A landmark in the history of electronic music.

If I had to choose 1 release to listen to for the rest of my life, this would be it. Xpander is unbelievably warm, with 2 separate melodies combining at the climax of the track to send chills up your back like no other. Belfunk is an incredible progressive chugger. My favorite part in this is the mid section where the bassline drops and the high pitched bells chime in marking the end of every 8 beats. It ends ambient and mellow, almost making me feel like the ambient section should have been placed in the beginning of the track, as opposed to the end. Still an incredible track. Rabbitweed is not my style, but Baja is perfect for that afterhours vibe or a long car ride home after a show. Very slow and melodic, soothing to max.

Xpander certainly expanded a lot of minds back when it was release (and it still does even today). You can’t go wrong with Sasha and Charlie May working together – nothing but the finest examples of electronic music. This track got deck time by not only by the regulars around the Progressive community, but I still remember quite vividly Breakbeat, DnB, Hardhouse, Trance, and Tribal djs working this into their sets. Defiantly crossed boarders, but no one can pull this off like Sasha. I have to admit, I still dig it today, but I don’t play it anymore (seems too fast and hectic for my taste now, even if I slow it down). But then whenever he comes by San Francisco, I do cross my fingers around the climax of his sets hoping for some mind expansion once again.

my favourite on here is "belfunk"...

extremely driving, percussive, a neverending break and over 11 minutes long. What do you want more of a trance record?