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Gemini - A Moment Of Insanity - 07-May-06 08:29 AM
Very remarkable record this is. Incorporating elements from both the Chicago and Detroit sound, these are some of Spencer Kincy’s best tracks. Especially the two versions of 'Crossing Mars' are great. Every sound and every sequence stands out, precisely because it has found its own proper place. This stuff is so telling.

Cybotron - Techno City - 09-Apr-06 06:38 AM
This record shows an exciting tension in today's listening experience. In spite of a romantic kind of irony the music has a futuristic, utopian appeal to it. The irony must have already been there for the listener of 1984 (think also of an album like Kraftwerk's 'Computer World'). But for today's listener an awareness of things past is added to this. It is not so much an awareness of older times and art in general, but especially a recognition of the period in which this record was made. The sound of electronic music of the 1980's is nowadays tapped into from a new perspective (or it is bluntly copied). A track like 'Techno City' at the same time directs us towards the future and the past. It is however only able to do this under one condition, that it is and remains to be astonishing and beautiful music.

Larry Heard - Genesis - 02-Apr-06 02:18 PM
After a period of about five or six years of pioneering and amazingly deep productions (about all of which have become classics) Larry Heard started making records (among which many full-length albums) which were different in sound from the earlier 12’s: less confronting and basic, more laid back and tightly structured, less drum machines and synthesizers, more computer-based. It seems that in general these recordings are played less than the classic ones. Maybe this is not so strange because maybe they simply aren’t as good. It could also be that they are overlooked a little. Anyhow, ’Genesis’ is an album that ranks with the best Larry Heard has done. On this album the overall sound is even ‘cleaner’ and rhythmically tighter than the other work. But here this makes perfect sense and is exactly what the music is about. Maybe this is so because this isn’t straight up house music, but some kind of ‘high-tech’ approach to melody, rhythm, vocals and composition... Somehow the picture on the cover is able to visualize what the music sounds like.

Faces Drums / Steve Poindexter - Faces Drums / Short Circut - 14-Oct-05 05:31 PM
The version of Short Circuit here (called original version) is a slightly re-arranged version of the 'Original Uncut Version' which was previously released on the Phase II EP on the same label.