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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (10 ratings)

Nick Warren - Global Underground GU35: Lima - 18-Oct-08 04:19 PM
What an awesome 2 disc set! I'm so happy that the GU label is back on track, sticking to it's founding principles with their key veteran, Nick Warren.

This is silky, modernised progressive house and trance music, fused in a versatile and trendy way with the neo-minimal 4/4 tech-house sounds currently doing the rounds. Very happy - the best GU mix and release from Mr Warren himself since his Reykjavik mix under GU# 24. 5/5 :)

Alec JP

Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase - 27-Aug-08 06:55 AM
I think that the title can be seen as summing up this album aptly - judge this book by it's cover...

It has taken much criticism on the chin, mainly from their die-hard fans. I think the mildly analogue-warmed, fuzzy guitar's and chilled trip-hop suit a chilled campfire session with your good friends. Just don't forget to bring the bifta's, as BoC build a calming fire on the hill, looking back over their decidedly trippy, moody past and looking over the brow towards their next album, which no-one will know what to expect from.

A clever move I think - the right thing for them to have released in 2005...

Felix Da Housecat - Global Underground GU34: Milan - 08-Aug-08 10:57 AM
For the record, I really don't like what is happening to almost every aspect of this prestigious DJ mix brand, which has grown to be an institutional guiding light in the quality dance music world. Even the cover photos are becoming... "cheesy"?

"Commercial" fits better, and this flies in the face of what it has been built upon: the underground.

However, although I think they should have stuck to the NuBreeders (Howells, Pappa, Burridge) and bought in some other guy's like those commonly found at Fabric to bolster the series, Felix did a reasonably good job of putting this together.

Takes twists & turns through good minimal techno and bursts into an eventful storm of electro-edged stuff.

Layo & Bushwacka! - Global Underground GU33: Rio - 08-Aug-08 10:47 AM
This is yet another step towards a total GU sell-out. It used to be all about what the title suggests: the finest DJ's of the 4/4 prog/tech-house fraternity serving current, fresh underground music played along their global dj circumnavigations.

Now, this is more reminiscent of a Ministry of Sound-esque comp, where the core values are bastardised, edges ground off, as the company owners have dollar signs in their eyes. Sack the director! Bring back the GU we all knew and loved!

Disc 1: Cleverly put together bunch of old hat. We don't need reminding of the past if we are the sort of people buying GU compilations.

Disc 2: Bland, on-the-bandwagon minimal stuff. Includes good tracks (Gerber, Sammim, Heard), don't get me wrong, but only the last track is anything like the Layo & Bushwacka! I thought I knew.

I remember thinking that this could be such a fresh addition to the series, bringing some current underground breaks materials to the GU forum, but it seems like they and GU the label have changed their ways too much, and for all the wrong reasons.

PS. The cover photo is a complete joke, and sells this for what it really is... disappointed would be an understatement.

Destination - Definition Of Love - 16-Jul-08 04:51 PM
Awesome, hefty, jackin tech-house funk on the one side, the Rockliffe influence, whereas the flip is more electronic-edged techno, which is clearly the Christian Smith slant on tingz.

I first heard this on Trevor's 2001 Radio One Essential Mix, (where he played both the a-side and the b-side), and I immediately sought it out on Juno. It is one of the most awesome, infectious techy grooves in the history of dance. The way the hi-hat's kick into the groove is just sooooo phat!

Why don't they get together and knock up another EP or maybe an album, new for 2008?

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