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Âme - Coast 2 Coast - 08-Jan-08 06:28 AM
After 2 stunning mixes in '06, ... Mixing and the Skin Is In comp for Dessous, and a even very good essential mix for BBC radio, their 2007 mix for the Coast 2 Coast series was a real let down and drop off in quality. Gone was any of the excitement and killer tracks found in their previous efforts, and we're left with a boring deep house mix that goes nowhere. Even the unmixed disc had boring stuff, with only a few standouts. IMO, not worth the effort seeking this one out.

Elektrochemie - Mucky Star - 17-Mar-07 09:15 PM
The track starts off tame enough, with a simple drum beat coupled by a few snap, crackle, and pops, but before long, we're engulfed by a sinister bassline, infused with an electro-fied techno melody, and peppered by sexually aggressive lyrics that go squelching in and out. It seems Elektrochemie was teasing us early on, with very similar tracks from their last two EP's, Don't Go and Pleasure Seeker. The title track from Don't Go being a slow, foreplay-like build up to the exploding orgasm that is the best Elektrochemie track to date, Calling You. A scorching, high impact ride, ready to torch any mix it enters, with a flame that should last all year. Easily, the best electronic track I've heard in 2007. I dare you to come up with anything hotter.

Marco Carola - Fabric 31 - 05-Feb-07 11:21 PM
A fine argument for the best mix ever in the long line of Fabric releases. Minimal and tech heads rejoice, as this is one of the finest flowing mixes ever burned to disc. From Matt John's spacey Io to open the mix, to Alex Smoke's clicky Plunder to end it, we're taken on a smooth ride of big, upbeat tunes and spicy melodies. Think Audion's Fabric 27 but not as dark, and Tiefschwarz's Fabric 29 without the vocals. A stunning mix and my top listen so far in '07.

Luke Dzierzek - One Day / Echo - 08-Dec-06 03:52 PM
Quite possibly the most overlooked track of all time, in terms of use on mix compilations. While it's no doubt that Echo gained popularity with DJ's and got many spins in late '05 and into '06, it never seemed to find it's way onto a mix CD. The John Dahlbäck remix has been on at least 2 DJ mix CD's and it's a decent track in it's own right, but compared to the stunning original, it pales in comparison.

In my opinion, this is one of the best electro tracks of all time. It's a buzzing, rolling melody, that builds, slips, and slides throughout the entire track, keeping a frenzied pace that's fit to tear any dance floor to shreds. Simply a monster track that I can't fathom how it's never been used more in mix releases. It's possibly because the melody is so fast, it's hard to get away with it anywhere other than the dance floor. There simply aren't many tracks that can keep up and sound good next to this one, especially set permanently to disc.

One Day is another high energy electro track, and a solid one too, but it's hard to talk any further about anything else that appears alongside Echo! While Echo is overlooked in terms of appearing on mixes, this track got overlooked as well, due to it appearing on a 12" with such a high quality track. If you had this in your DJ bag what would you play? It's too bad because if it appeared elsewhere, people may have taken more notice.

Alex Smoke - 17-Sep-06 12:39 PM
If Smoke continues on the path of this consistent, and seemingly incessant release pattern of astounding and incomparable, multi layered journeys through techno and minimal, he will undoubtedly become larger than any techno predecessor before him. Even the legends of techno old (who I will not get into specific names) who blazed a path here, with a truly grand entrance into this electronic realm, have yet themselves to follow up with as stimulating and imaginative efforts as Alex Smoke has of late. There simply hasn't been a more exciting artist of any electronic genre I've listened to.

Being first in anything is great, and while die hard early techno fans may turn their noses up at me telling them someone has come along and bettered their beloved heroes, as in sports records, record sales stats, and political greats, there can always be someone to come along and one up someone else. Even though you don't allow them to, and won't accept them, either way, it can and will happen.

While I can go on about defending why I suddenly feel there is no better artist to come along in the techno field, I will let his music speak for itself. I can fill 5 CD's right now with a collection of his remixes and own releases of the past 2 years, and from track 1, cd 1, to the last track of cd 5, there wouldn't be a single dull moment in that listening experience, which would be very hard to do for even the seasoned veterans of the electronic music world. And to think we can do that with only a 2 year discography goes without saying. He is constantly keeping each track unique, shuffling feverish glitching, mutilating vocals, and bending any genre's melodies into the craftiest tracks imaginable.

I just hope he can keep it up, and I think he will, because it sure as hell doesn't seem to be a fluke or any kind of beginner's luck!

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