Source ‎– Source EP

A brilliant EP of early trance and acidic techno from arguably the finest of Sweden's techno producers, Robert Leiner.

I remember Colin Dale playing the B side track week after week on his now legendary Outer Limits show on London's Kiss FM in the very early 1990s. I hassled Dale during one of his resident sets at the Knowledge techno night to find out where I could find a copy, and made a rare venture to Zoom Records in Camden where I bought this fine release. The A2 track is a pacey, dark and brooding techno track with bubbly growling synths throughout. Very hypnotic. The long track across the B side that initially led me to the record is an epic acidic trancey number, with a long intro that was sampled by F.S.O.L. for their "Cascade" release. Not so much my thing these days, but it still serves as a reminder of why trance seemed like a great thing at the time, before cheese and commerce took hold of it. The best track of all though is A1 which, unlike the other tracks which were remixed and released elsewhere, is only available on this record. Stuttered kicks, spacious reverbed claps, and rubbery acid synths. A spazzed out spacey acid trip, if ever there was one, it still gets an airing in my sets.

Beautiful, melodic 'trance-techno' that prefigured Robert Lenier's stunning later releases. To my mind, he's a seriously overlooked producer, and one of many I'd like the know the whereabouts of or releases under different pseudonyms, etc.