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DJ Edge - *2
Jan 03, 2008
Inner City - Paradise
Nov 30, 2007
Back in '89 there weren't too many 'real albums' out there in the electronic genre and this was certainly it. It had the floorfillers, the Detroit sound and it was fresh and innovative.
Yeah, yeah, I know, anything beyond Metroplex, KMS or Transmat is fake. For the pursists out there, let me remind you that in most places (such as In South America in '89) this was pretty much the sound of the underground and as hip as you could get. My favorite track is Paradise, and at that time this album was the only means to get to it. This is one heck of a record. Untitled 5 is one of those must have tracks that shows why the Kompute label is a hidden gem.
Now why use such a name for the ep? My guess is the artists fell for the typical 'quantum mysticism' trap, as promoted by authors such as Capra, Chopra and other new age chutzpahs. The Dancing Wu Li Masters is the name of a new age book that tries (as is always the case, without proper foundation and relying more on wishful thinking than actual evidence) to link quantum physics with eastern mysticism. So here we have a slammer ep with a name more appropriate for cheesy goa. I look forward to the day when stomper tracks carry cooler names such as 'The fabric of the cosmos', 'Universe in a nutshell' or 'Warped passages'. The floorfiller here is the eternal Rubb It In, which has a classic Belgian sound. The funny track is Trance Europe Express though. Phuture's Acid Trax meets Beltram's Energy Flash bassline with Kraftwerk samples and Led Zep's Immigrant song scream. And I am probably forgetting quite a few other hymns here. Quite amusing.
The degeneration of Ramirez was kind of predictable (knowing who was behind the project) and it was also fast. Ramirez is from Peru and the vocals in La Musica..., El Ritmo Barbaro, Hablando, etc. are in spanish.
I saw him live in Berlin, in 1992 "playing" Orgasmico :- ) Despite all of this, La Musica Tremenda is still a classic. There is a very nice version of it in the seminal Logic Trance vol. 1 sampler (also included in the R&S release). I remember hearing this record for the first time at the Parkcafe in Munich (beginning of 1992). It wasn't until minutes before going into the giant Hall of the 1992 Mayday in Berlin, while searching through a crate of records at a big record store (it might have been the now defunct Virgin Megastore), that I finally deviced the precious piece of vinyl.
This is one of those tracks that is hard to describe unless you are actually dancing to it in some obscure underground bunker at 5 AM. This is the real meat. Dark trance of the good stripe, class of 1992. Too bad Goa, psytrance and the like gave a bad name to what was one of the most promising styles at the beginning of the previous decade. | ||||
At that time I was never too much into breakbeats, but this was really different, partly because of a very solid beat compared to other bb numbers and also that flare of mystery surrounding these releases. It came at a time when there other such 'series' going on (like the TZ series).
Feef Logic starts with Kano's I'm ready and then goes into a whicked salad of samples including Felix et al. At some point there's a "Arroz con Pollo, Cafe con leche' sample (Rice with Chicken, Latte Coffee), hilarious.