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AFX* - Analord 08 - 13-Jun-05 01:36 AM
The first track sounds like AFX gone 90's house! Very good disco/house tune but a tad dark with the melody that feels like it expresses lots of emotion but could still work for a DJ set at a club. The live clumpy drum sounds help make the track a nice stomper! Dare to mix this with Stardust or Daft Punk?

I'd love to hear more AFX house tracks like A1 in the future as the next 3 tracks are all chilled out and have that ambient electro breakbeat drumming sound to them. B1 is the winner for me as it starts out very minimal but the synth sound on the main hook is so nice and relaxing sounding that for some reason it reminds me of something you would hear in an old Vangels song. You might not like these 3 tracks at first if you're just needle dropping the record around but you listen to them all the way from start to finish the appeal grows on you. There is no heavy 303 acid on this release except very faint in the background on the more ambient techno track B2 and you could also say there is no heavy sounding anything on this Analord except for track A1 really. Four great tracks in another chapter of this winning my money Analord series!

Ides - Sweet & Sour EP - 26-May-05 06:12 AM
4 tracks of killer acid techno that are so good I actually tried to eat this record! I still don't know if it's the yellow colored record or the killer 303 production sound that still makes me want to put my teeth into it! Playing the first untitled track A1 I call "The earth is..." has this guys voice with a techno stuttering sound going in and out of what sounds like he's saying "The earth is" (hence the name) over a grungy digital synth making this techno air raid like sound warning you that killer acid is about to be dropped and hard! Turn this track up loud as it dose not fail to move body's! The next track A2 is more mellowed out techno but with the same techno voice from the previous tracks saying something else I can't figure out ("into tech"? maybe) over a bubbly acid line. On the non-labeled side (paper free yummy!) B1 is more of a techno acid house track with a quivering synth noise over what sounds like a busted 303 acid line from the Speedy J early day's. Finally the last track B2 starts with 909 toms beating the track into shape for another awesome stabby 303 acid bassline to make you move! I don't know why there hasn't been many other yellow acid records that taste...errr.. sound this good sense but I sure hope to find more!

AFX* - Analord 07 - 08-May-05 04:19 AM
I guess you could call this The Lost Windowlicker Breaks EP to sum up how it sounds as all 3 tracks in this installment of Analord 7 are very electro b-boy breaks influenced. The first track Lisbon Acid has a dark moody Aphex analog acid techno/funk and for some odd reason I'm sensing a feel of New Order Blue Monday on the kick drums. Not really for the dancefloor as the techno stomper part leaves after a few minutes and the breakdowns are a tad too long but very melodic and chill.

The next track Pitcard is what I feel is the winner track of Analord 7. The second I heard it I liked it but then I realized it sounded more like Orbital vs AFX. I can't put my finger on what Orbital track (for sure thier earlier work) the boucy analog synth line progression feel is from but it sure sounds good! AFX adds his own style with his stop and start drum breakdowns and later adds the acid and synth melodys of his style.

AFX Acid 04 is what it says. Funky, B-boy, acid, 808 beats of the early 80's sounding electro but still you know it is AFX providing those trademark gooey acid basses. I could see someone mixing this over some main stream hiphop accapella and people would go mad thinking it was the Neptunes producing it or something someday. Overall I'm very happy with Analord 7 but I feel it still doesn't beat out Analord 4 yet?!

Tool Box - Doraemonton - 03-May-05 11:16 PM
Doraemonton is just average techno but this release had my hopes up for something different but it was just the same old cooler than cool Kazumi techno sound. I fell into buying this record from seeing the picture of the Doraemon on the sleeve and titling the tracks with Doraemon like terms. When I listened to the record I was hoping for at least one Doraemon sample or reference but there were no samples of anything Doraemon on this record. Both tracks just sound like some of the first few great Kazumi records but this time more watered down with average no thrills techno sounds making this release DJ filler. Dokodemo-doa is more like Dekodemo-boring! It is a looped disco string sound getting filtered with 2 bleepy synth stabs over each bar for the entire track and a not so great break down/build up. Takekoputa has this heard it before African marimba percussive loop that does not do anything but loop over and over again.

I guess the people at Kazumi (or Toolbox) wanted to make a dedication (or trick people into to buying this record) by releasing this record at the same time as the new Doraemon cartoon with its new voice actors premiered in Japan. Sumo wrestlers on Kazumi record sleeves are not cool anymore now that Kazumi are part of Pornostarmusic? They tricked me and kind of let me down by putting Doraemon on the sleeve and calling the record Doraemonton as it was a lame trick. I know the other people who bought this record only for the cover hoping for something interesting but got nothing new. I hope there is better stuff from Tool box and Kazumi in the future!

AFX* - Analord 04 - 14-Mar-05 10:52 PM
I didn't like this release at first. In fact I was kind of disappointed with Analord 1 - 3 and almost didn't feel like waisting my money on getting Analord 4. Then a few weeks later I found myself humming the all tunes on Analord 4! The infectious tracks Halibut Acid, Home Made Polysynth and Breath March have this minimal techno feel that remind me of something on Basic Channel or Chain Reaction records. Minimal dance tunes but with that hauntingly catchy AFX 303 riff or synth. The track Crying In Your Face is more on that 80's electro 1 2 beat stuff with vocoders, techno and acid but still dark, minimal and good! I think Analord 4 is the best Analord record out at this moment. More quality 4 tracker Analord's please! I'm hooked?!

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