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Buyer Rating: 91.7% positive (12 ratings)

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Leo Anibaldi - Nothing Has Changed - 18-Dec-06 09:46 AM
Really baleful EP of excellent dark techno. And when I say "dark" I dont mean distorted or ludicrously hard, though - its dark in that every track has a ghostly and fearful atmosphere to it, with discordant tones and unsettling human-like sounds fading in and out of the mix.

Round Two - New Day - 10-Nov-06 07:27 AM
Another comment added here, perhaps pointlessly. The vocal only mentions the title of this track around four minutes in - all the verses basically end without a chorus - and at the point where the title line comes in, theres a subtle key change in which the warm Jupiter strings suddenly take on this unexpected and additional richness.

I have a theory that all the best tracks have their "moments", one particular point in the track that kind of encapsulates the rest of it. The key change in "New Day" is that moment, in my opinion.

Robert Hood / Silicon - The Feel / Electron Push - 10-Nov-06 04:11 AM
An excellent pair of tracks here. Robert Hoods organ-driven dancefloor cut "The Feel" is the one that most DJs would probably go for; it comes across sounding a bit like one of his housier Floorplan productions, but retains a banging quality that really adds to the energy.

Heath Brunners contribution is, in my opinion, one of his best tracks. A less loopy and more varied style of electro than the usual Silicon output, "Electron Push" has a certain sheen or shimmer to its sound alongside a maurauding bassline and eye-piercingly sharp snares. Not amazingly easy to incorporate into a set, perhaps, but sometimes with electronic music thats not really the point.

Analog~1 - Untitled - 24-Sep-06 08:23 AM
The EP of delicate, understated and beautiful electronics contains no dancefloor tracks, but is instead reminiscent of early 1990s "electronic listening music" (the term that was used before "IDM" became ubiquitous). Its not impossible to imagine these tracks having been released on labels like Likemind or B12, for example.

My personal favourite is the final track, Reduced, a beatless 303-led piece the likes of which you dont see enough of. All in all this release is definitely for the listener rather than the DJ, and lovers of the early 90s electronica/ambient era should take note too.

Mike Dred - Macrocosm - 24-Sep-06 03:22 AM
While the B-side track "Oxycute" is a bit more along the lines of Dreds work on Rephlex - very raw 606 & 707 drum sounds, chaotic sound of three or more 303s competing for attention - the A-side track "Macrocosm" is in a fairly different mould.

Its fair to say that "Macrocosm" is more slick, more sophisticated in its production, and to a lot of people (myself included) that should be a bad thing. But in fact the opposite is true. Mike Dred manages to imbue the track with an intensity thats irresistible, as it seems to build and build and build throughout even though no more layers are being added. The cliché of being "lost in the track" is an appropriate one here.

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