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Buyer Rating: 96.3% positive (82 ratings)

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Various - From The Past, Present And Future Vol.2 - 17-Oct-08 05:42 AM
I just bought this release from Juno and was listening to it the car on the way to work - awesome tunes from the early electronic pioneers. One problem though the tracklist is completely false - every single track is wrong and i don't mean they are in the wrong order. Not one of the tunes listed appears on the album and i have cross checked 12 of 14 on youtube. Take track 10 for instance which is the one that originally raised my suspicion as i have it on vinyl listed as 'Mike Anthony - Why Can't We Live Together'
Check Juno for mp3 samples - i would love to know what the real tracklisting is so i might email the record company.
Cheers
James

Claude VonStroke & Galen / Burnto Bertolucci - Disco Kryptonite / Bake Me Dome Tonight - 27-Nov-07 05:49 AM
The B side tune is actually a really great remake of 'Schneider TM - The Light 3000' with extra oomph added to the bass and a more 4/4 beat structure. I just discovered that Schneider TM's version is actually a cover an electronic cover version of "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths. It's always interesting to hear the original version of a tune when you have been loving the cover for so long and the title is actually a play on the original lyrics 'Take Me Home Tonight'

Series 7 - 1 - 07-May-07 01:10 PM
The B side tracks are nothing to write home about, B1 is a generic acid techno track and B2 a plodding dubby beat with some lame effects. The A side is a whole different kettle of fish however. A1 is like the best combination of jacking chicago rhythm, soulful detroit chords with a bassline that sounds very familiar but damn fresh - somewhere between Mr Fingers and Derrick May but with a totally modern production style that would fit right in with any current 'electro house' or 'acid revival' track trying to recall the glory days of the originators. A2 is not quite as immediate but brings to mind early Neil Landstrumm And Christian Vogel stuff - really bleepy bouncy techno with high pitched squelches and flanged chords, a tad annoying if listened to repeatedly but would seriously go mental if played to the right crowd. Sounds like it could have been produced yesterday as well, halfway between Roman Flügel's 'Geht's Noch?' and Audion's recent smash 'Mouth To Mouth'. Definitely a keeper.

Damian Lazarus and Matthew Styles - Get Lost - 13-Nov-06 10:47 AM
I felt i had to comment on this cd after listening to it for the second time this morning - initially i gave it a 5/5 rating. It's mixed by Damian Lazarus and Matthew Styles without mentioning if they both did a disc each or all of it together, but i'd hazard a guess and say Mr Lazarus probably mixed the first disc which is very much the sound of now - what will it be next year i wonder. The sound of 2006 i'm referring to is that whole german minimal sound, great for a sweaty basement and all, very well-produced crisp tracks that you seem to forget five minutes after hearing them, all smoothly gliding into one another and forming a rather pleasant and danceable mix. However, the highlight for me (and the only tune that isn't really a minimal techno tune) would have to be the last track R:AX 'Opium Den (Part V)' a mid-paced melancholy electro track with a bassline / melody combination that nods to the past - both chicago house and italo disco - but is very futuristic at the same time. The second disc starts of in a similiar style after the brief intro with the crunching technoid sounds of Naum then delves into abstract breaks (Four Tet), folky ambient weirdness (Position Normal) amazingly chunky electro with jazzy keys (Trickski) experimental hip-hop (Anaerobic Robots) and by track 7 we are back to the funky tech-house music of John Tejada. Now don't misinterpret me here, i like most of these songs, its just that mixing is totally non existant and the order of the tracks makes no sense whatsoever - i have nothing against being eclectic, just check out my collection for proof. Eclectic and well mixed is fantastic if u can pull it off. The remainder of the cd is a similarly mismatched collection of music that i either love or hate - Moonstarr's brilliantly titled 'Detriot' being an extremely powerful homeage to the Motor City pioneers. It just sounds like someone with a very broad tastes pressed shuffle on their ipod and recorded it. Despite this its still an enjoyable listen, but when i read "Mixed By.." in the title i expect to hear some actual mixing not an unmixed set by a someone bordering on schizophrenic in their ability to make a tracklisting flow cohesively.

Brainstorm - TZ 8 - 24-Apr-06 01:13 AM
The A side of this awesome record also appears on a late 90's trance compilation listing it as a track named 'Birdy' by Outlander. Maybe the people who licensed it just assumed that the tune was by outlander, who was involved with almost all the releases on TZ and named the track themselves because of the chirping bird calls in the intro. I guess its a mystery that only the artists could explain.

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