What a great ep this is. As much as I love my techno raw and boiled, Thomas Krome’s Fried is the real gem on this ep. The masterchef shares us a glimpse on how he cooks, fries and boils in his techno kitchen. It starts out with chaotic ticking and mixed echo noises . After some time the sounds merge together very subtle. A swelling bass drum then mixes together with the other sounds and merges the flavoures perfectly. The chaotic ticks and cracklings are filtered from the start, but when the track moves on they open up more and more in a hypnotic way. Then some hi-hats, snares and a filtered kick drum are added and dinner is served! A feast for all those hungry ears, and energy for the dancing feet. At the end all the ingredients fall away one by one and the end finishes like it started. He can cook for me anytime if he is serving tracks like this.

Sad we don’t hear so much from this artist who has been very low profile since 2001.

Personaly the track Ebulience embodies for me the word Techno. The ever changing haunting and hissing sounds combined with a forcing ongoing rhythmic kick gets you in instant hypnosis. There is so much anger in Ebulience. Near the end there as a break and it's like some being is searching and calling out for something and when it gets no recall the Anger starts off again. Warping beautiful insect sounds flying through the whole track. This must be the feeling when some one with a "cold turkey" feels something crawling under his skin. This track gets you by the throat and crawls under your skin forever. This is one the most uncompromising tracks of Convextion. The track Niche is a lovely delicate textured track with some detroitish strings singing around. The lush end floats away like the end of a beautifull summernight. Minimalistic techno at it's best and how it should be! When you will hear this you will be addicted forever. Listening at own risk.

Monotone Bulldozer techno with an industrial-esque atmosphere. The first track starts with a swelling sound and all of a sudden chaos hits in like a bomb. At the end there is a high key piano hook which brings the track to maximal pressure. This could still be played today. A timeless piece of minimal techno.

Best played in dark places with much smoke and a strobe blasting in your face.

Iesope Drift get those drummachines out and make some more.

The Seven Stars was made after eddy, Eric & Gert went to their label manager to let him hear some new tracks. It was House Of Venus's Dish & Tell which later on Prince took samples from for a track. He liked it but found the tracks to laidback and wanted the next Ep to be a little harder. Gert was feeling very offended by the comment of his masterpiece Dish & Tell. When gert came home he was furious and took a seat behind his keyboard. He thought: so you want rough ill give you rough! When the melody was finished he was relieved and the track was born. That night he had a dream about a six star constellation standing high in the sky. All of a sudden a seventh star was there. And that became the title: The Seven Stars. It came out the moment when the second wave of house music came. Seven Stars is build up from samples from gert's former rockband before he produced house music. If Seven Stars wouldn't be a succes they would form another project under a different name. The track still sounds fresh today and is still played by dj's like Michael Mayer and Ricardo Villalobos.

This Ep is set to be the first Tech-House record ever produced. In 1994 it was one of the biggest tech-house tracks of the year. It's a smooth groovy spacious Tech-House track with a warm vocal which takes you a level higher. Only for this track alone a must have. For many an all-time favorite which includes me.

So deep, So liquid...

Around the time in 1992 the track set up 707 was a worldwide club hit. The track was played by the likes of Mike Dunn & Armando. It was made because the ep was a track short, they wanted it to be a 6 tracker. With a shortage of time Dylan en Gert-jan were jamming with a 303 and a 707 and that's how it was born. They recorded it with the first take and nothing has been changed ever since. This classic acid track was the first step in what is now know as gabber/hardcore. The album was recorded in 1990 but came out in 1992. Only the track set up 707 was recorded in 1992. Great pounding Acid.

If there is a Techno Heaven or Hell this is what you would hear there. An absolute skullcracker with heart exploding bpm's. Not for cheap speakers because this monster would crush them. Drop the bass is just like dropping bombs! Pounding techno that would keep the techno soldiers up all night! Microwarz is a delicate piece of intelligent minimal techno but not the dull one that you hear everywere these days. If you wanna know how it feels like to get run over by a train without getting killed just play Hardcore, You Know The Score & L Train To Bushwick. Just wish i would have the chance to see this ingenious producer live somewere. It seems like producers from this kaliber don't exist no more...

For this album Carl got his inspiration from the group Liaisons Dangereuses with the self named album Liaisons Dangereuses. Mister Craig single handedly made here the blue print for the Birmingham sound which now dj's like Surgeon, Regis, James Ruskin & max duley are most famous of. A stunning ground breaking album with the darker side of Carl Craig. Is there anything Carl Craig can't do?

Touché is the label set up by Jamez & Dobre an excellent label with some groundbreaking releases. They mostly release their own productions but also artists like Carl Craig, Booka Shade and Orlando Voorn have released on Touché. They also release solo but their best output is when they produce as a duo like Trancesetters or Tata Box Inhibitators. Under each alias they produce different kinds of music. 51 days is deep house, Tata Box Inhibitators is Acid House and Trancesetters is Tech-house. Tracks like The Saga, Paper Moon, Plasmids, The Search are some of their best known releases. At the end of the 90’s the label Touché was voted for best label of the year in germany. This happened without the help of any big german record labels promoting them. Just purely with the quality and strength of the music.

In the dictionary Touché means: Used to acknowledge a hit in fencing or a successful criticism or an effective point in argument. Well their releases "hit" me "successfully" in the right spot.

These hugly underrated producers from Holland are a project from Jamez & Dobre. I just discovered these guys and what great music i missed all these years. Their sounds cannot be put in one category of music: House, Tech-house, Techno, Progressive and what their name indicates Trance. If you are not into Trance don’t get fooled by the name…slamming beats, catchy melodies and building tracks that’s what you get. They have been played and admired by the likes of Sven Vath, Carl Cox, Danny Tenaglia, Anthony Pappa, Billy Nasty, Kevin Saunderson, Seb Fontaine, Sister Bliss, Darren Emerson, Deep Dish and Nick Warren. You can see from the variety of dj's that their tracks fit in almost every dj-set. The search has been their biggest tune and has been played all over the world from New York To Berlin.

My favourite tracks are: Drive which has a spooky atmosphere and it keeps on building forever amd when it ends you whished it lasted forever! Secrets Of Meditation has a tribalisch feel and would inrich every techno set!The Search has a strong melody that hooks you from the beginning. Urban Victim has a Detroit techno feel. Also check out their other aliases like Tata Box Inhibitors, 51 Days and Loophole. If you like this also check: Chiapet!

Truly open minded producers. These guys really are trendsetters!