veers, Sep 30, 2005
A clean mx of mostly unreleased tracks (except for "MOMENTUM" which was produced on 720 DEGREES).
It begins with "DENSITY" from SCARLET LAKE, a moving instrumental that surrounds you with noble strings rising, gentle chime loop and lazy spacey flute. What an intro!!
Then comes "FIRST MAGNITUDE" by THIRD COMBINATION (the combined talents of KMC and FUTURE ENGINEERS) which doesn't disappoint once you have dived in its fluid structure of filtered choruses, deep sound waves and the unexpected secret melody that reveals itself soon after the break, profound, conscious, for your heart and mind pleasure.
After "MOMENTUM" by FUTURE ENGINEERS (now a famous track in the intelligent scene), there stands "MAGNETIC CLOUDS", a very limited dubplate from KMC that FUTURE ENGINEERS used to mix. No doubt it's a good one but quite far from the usual KMC prod (showing what direction he was taking, pushing the ideas of tracks like "ALPHA CENTAURI" on 720 DEGREES for instance).
The ending track is an other unreleased one (from FUTURE ENGINEERS), "TMA 1" whose title I believe is taken from "2001, a space odyssey" when the monolith of the Moon is discovered and called "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1".
Of course this mx was intended to be just a teaser but now that TEMPLE RECORDS has passed away and that sadly we hear no more from the scottish genius, it is a piece of history. HAVE IT!!!!!
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