jonarmst, Dec 21, 2006
This was one of those records that music-journalist types were complaining about back during the time it was released: disposable techno that consisted of little more than samples thrown on top of looped, sped-up breakbeats with production quality that wasn't exactly excellent (I swear some of these Production House records must've been using an 8-bit Ensoniq Mirage to sample things).
So, of course, with the benefit of hindsight, that's what makes records like this so absolutely charming. There's no arty "minimal" aesthetic at work here, oh no... and the time could not have been any other than 1991-1992: a nice fat 202 bassline, a breakbeat, robot voices screaming "Exterminate!", and then a huge "Strings of Life" sample in the middle of it with an eerie female vocal on top.
Perhaps you had to be there, but to hear this sort of thing when it came out: it still sends chills down my spine. Even with the entire crowd on Doves I'm still surprised these sort of records did anything but confuse people.
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