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Eternal - Mind Odyssey - 21-Jan-09 06:04 AM
I've got to agree fully with jamesocm's summing up of this. The original mix is the one where the real heart is at, especially if you were swept up in the positive vibes that were a huge part of the early 90's "house nation". The track is full of uplifting elements - a glorious bassline, sweeping keyboards, nice breaks and those samples jamesocm mention are scattered through the track.

It's quite hard to encapsulate what makes this track work so well, but to me it really stems from the mood of the time, one of hope and openness, which has permeated through to it entirely. A warm place to be :)

Orbital - The Middle Of Nowhere - 21-Jan-09 03:10 AM
Just a small snippet of trivia. The track "I Don't Know You People" samples the 1973 movie "The Legend of Hell House" extensively, especially at the beginning of the track. The vocal and the eerie droning sound are taken from a scene where a psychic medium is possessed by a spirit. The drones were produced by electronic music pioneers Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson, who were heavily involved with the Doctor Who theme that Orbital also covered !

Norken - Soul Static Bureau - 06-Jan-09 06:43 AM
A wonderful blend of styles are in evidence on this mesmerizing album. There are pieces of house, IDM and ambience all fused to create an ever so subtle soundtrack. The minimal house beats are offset beautifully by gentle sweeping synths, and laid back bass lines help keep the groove going. The mix is never cluttered - each element is given plenty of room to stand out.

This blueprint is in evidence throughout the album, but each track has a distinct mood of its own. The unifying production values help to create a hypnotic flow to the whole, which encourages start to finish listening (and I think this is the way to get the most from this album).

At ten years old, this release is still offering up new delights for me with every listen (and there have been lots and lots of those). This album is certainly a grower and is one of the best produced works I have ever heard.

Norken's Soul Static Bureau is a masterpiece of subtle deepness quite unlike any other piece of music I know.

51 Days - Paper Moon - 18-Apr-07 05:38 AM
Outrageously deep EP. Every single track on it is good enough to be the main track on separate pieces of vinyl. Paper Moon is a superbly produced hybrid of techno and house. Persisent hypnotic rhythms and spacious strings rise and fall all through this blissed out track. Tracktion is a killer piece of deep techno - superb beats for the intro drop out to make room for the track's melodic hook. And what a hook it is - once heard never forgotten. The EP finishes off with Squeeze, a piece of smooth sophisticated house music of the highest quality. No reliance on house cliches here - just a few deep smooth Rhodes keys, beats, funky bass and a perfectly chosen repeated vocal sample of "Je reside en Paris. Voulez vous venir?" are put together in masterful style.

Simply an all-time classic EP

Solid Doctor* - How About Some Ether: Collected Works 93-95 - 11-May-05 03:49 AM
This fantastic album shows off the Solid Doctor's know-how for smokey downtempo beats. Among my personal highlights are A Moving Family of Suns, U-Turn and the sublime Dusk. Some uptempo tracks are on offer too - Armed to the Teeth is flavoured with Mr Fingers style early chicago house. But for me the real heart of the album lies in the slower, after-hours chilling tracks.

And for those interested in such things, the title of the album is lifted from a line in Hunter S Thompson's "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas".

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