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Buyer Rating: 92.1% positive (38 ratings)

DJ Pulse - Stay Calm (Foul Play Remix) - 21-May-09 04:43 PM
The remix of Stay Calm would have been a classic in its own right if the original wasnt so close to perfect. Excellently produced as always by Foul Play.
Check the flip though for the forward thinking track on this release. The dark and haunting string section and the way it progresses through the space it creates in the listeners imagination. Whilst Foul Play were assigned to pay tribute to the darkcore classic, Pulse is already on board with the fast emerging, and really by this time already classic Deep Jungle / Jazz Techno-Drum and Bass scene being spearheaded by Bukems now legendary sets.
Its amazing to have been this excited by new music as a young person, especially as it was just before it exploded to mainstream-ish status, and Im sure people of all generations do experience this.
But this tune may not have even made it on to one of those sets that Im aware of, and yet just putting it on takes me straight back to the mood of that time.
Well worth a trip down memory lane.

Audion - 18-Mar-09 04:41 AM
Audion has proven to be very influential in maintaining the respectable side of dance music on the cusp of mainstream popularity, more so perhaps with his Matthew Dear guise but here he nails his colours firmly to the underground dance mast.

Lulling you into a false sense of security with industrial, crisp sounding programming, its not long before your mind has been de-focussed by the highly psychedelic elements drifting in and out of the mix.

Dance music as it should be then? In all the confusion all that remains for me to do is concentrate on the number of ways I can throw the shapes.

Christ. - Blue Shift Emissions - 20-Feb-07 11:39 AM
What a grand way for Benbecula to start a year. A remotely visible aural mist slowly washes over us from the speakers, and fills the room like some strange alien menace!

The elements are beautifully mixed together, reminding us more of Krautrocks bleak rootsy begginings than a Hip-Hop Enya/Tricky pastiche, but isnt it easy to judge either way based on expectation, and what the press tells us!

As similarly abstracted to BOC as this may at first appear theres a soul purpose to this sound that sets it far apart. Listen!

Photek - The Hidden Camera - 19-Dec-06 02:35 AM
"KJZ" for me still stands as one of the finest pieces of Drum & Bass ever made, the sort of music that comfortably unites genres.

Very progressive and fuzzy sounding, but with intricate precision on the programming that allows a technical intensity familiar to drum and bass, combined with a stylistic freedom and organic flow generally associated with jazz. Perhaps the next chapter of Innerzone Orchestras "Bug In The Bassbin" but with a soul all of its own!

This is definitely music for the mind, sometimes the feet, but mostly for the heart. Genuine classic.

Secrets - Secrets Volume 1 - 15-Dec-06 04:40 AM
This is Peshay and was a guise concocted for releases on Donovan "Bad Boy" Smiths imprint, it appears there was a plenty of "secret" work produced or co-produced by Peshay on this label, here and allegedly on the 10" picture series on Street Beats.

Being very of the time there are intensely disected "fluffy" amen rhythm sections, deep melodic basslines and soaring dreamy strings. This was certainly a key fixture in the 1995 sound being kaned by both LTJ Bukem and Peshay.

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