Classic Terry Francis. A tasty tech-house set only really let down by the final track which despite winding the set down is un-necessary. Go out as you meant to go on I say! Many of the Fabric/FabricLive CDs are of the same style and I highly recommend them ...

Terry Francis belongs to that rarefied elite among underground dance music DJs who can craft utterly compelling mixes with what appears to be minimal effort. In the hands of this unacknowledged master, seemingly bland Tech House tracks take on a life of their own. How Francis managed to identify 15 fairly obscure, somewhat disparate pieces of underground music, and to string them together into a coherent-sounding whole, remains a wonder. That this happened so early on in the Fabric series has held the label and subsequent DJs in the series to exceptionally high standards that, for me, really haven't been equalled until "Fabric 28: Wiggle" (2006), the sequel to the present mix which Francis recently put together with fellow Tech House traveller Nathan Coles.

The sound is low-key and laid back, but somehow fully engaging at the same time: it lies somewhere in that glorious but seldom–reached intersection between Tech House, Deep House, and Minimal House. The rhythmic texture has a dampened, elastic quality to it that's almost rubbery, bordering at times on dub and techno dub, but without the self-consciousness of those genres. The arrangements tend towards the minimal, but the tracks never descend into the soporific contrivance that is the undoing of large swathes of Minimal House. And the hypnotic flow of this mix is about as silky-smooth as you will find in the marketplace today. In short, Francis has delivered an astonishingly subtle piece of music that is at once buoyant and restrained, a Holy Grail of sorts for underground dance music, and ideal for dancing on tiptoes if that's your pleasure.

This DJ mix has an utterly timeless quality to it even though it was released more than four years ago. Other DJs and producers in the Tech House space would do well to pay close attention to Francis' craft, in particular how a good ear and a delicate touch are all that's needed to make this genre work. Fabric 2 and Fabric 28 are both highly recommended, especially to those who have (or can induce) the capacity to groove while chilling at the same time.

A very good mix CD. Terry shows a wealth of knowledge within these 70 minutes, starting with excellent electronica from Norken moving to the excellent deep tech house of Haris & Stubbs 'my love'. Well worth checking out. Apparently Terry didn't plan this mix.... he did it on the spur. PS well worth going to the fabric website checking his radio mix (which I think is better....)