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Member Since: Jul 19, 2003
Rank: 152
Rated 1018 releases, average: 4.23
Location: ann arbor michigan
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Various - Psychotrance - 04-Aug-08 07:27 AM
The tracklisting on this CD is misleading... The tracklistings begin in the middle of the mix of two tracks. For example, track #5 is low-key, and it's Sorceror by Megalon -- but the last 2 minutes are the next track, Play it Loud by Orlando Voorn (Baruka). And several are also either unreleased or hard to find.
I say this with a note of frustrated admiration, though tracks 2&3 of the mix are also really good (great acidy hard trance), 5&6 are incredible. Throw up the volume and with the latter part of #5 you get a really sexy tech-house jam (Play it Loud) that mixes into this almost ragga-type techno track (Xeno Ero by Dave Clarke/Red 1). It has a tough as nails hard hitting bassline that just kills. Track 6 winds up with Darkness by Megalon.
Quentin Harris
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Robert Owens - Always - 02-Aug-07 11:26 AM
Quite simply one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. A sparse but soulful arrangement, with a smooth chorus and simple but powerful, intimate lyrics that celebrate friendship and love through the years.
John Beltran - Ten Days Of Blue - 13-May-07 03:26 AM
Looks like everyone has their favorite here- surprised honestly that Gutaris Breeze (6000 km To Amsterdam) hasn't been mentioned. I think it's just an amazing amazing piece of music. Light, muscular, melodic, Latin, incredibly danceable yet beatless- just unreal. I can imagine a bunch of breakdancers poppin and lockin to it just as well as myself, toes in the sand, on a breezy beach in the Caribbean. Musical perfection.
Laurent Garnier - A Bout De Souffle EP - 15-Feb-07 08:03 PM
Wake up is a pumping, swirling groover with a sick ass bass line- Breathless is good too, but Wake Up is a classic- especially in a packed club, on a dance floor filled with smoke, and a killer sound system- like the Rex....
Plaid - 15-Feb-07 01:04 PM
Year after year we see music awards shows where the mainstream basks in glory- money, fame etc. A parade of mediocrity.
Why do I bring this up here? Because I think Ed Handley and Andy Turner are two of the most talented musicians on the planet. Very, very, very few musicians put you in a world you don't want to leave...make music that makes you feel like a better person for having listened to it, that inspires you, that appeals to any music lover. My 68 year old mother raised on big band and show tunes likes it, so do my friends from Asia and the Mexican lady who cleans my office.
They all like the Macarena too- so what? Answer: where are the guys that made the Macarena?
Like the mixes of Derrick May and the etudes of Chopin, the beats of Basic Channel and the soul of Carl Craig, Plaid's music adds so much to my life- has and will for a long time.
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