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Higher Intelligence Agency* | Biosphere - Polar Sequences - 26-Mar-08 12:16 PM
This is less ambient music but space music, indeed. Very driving yet sober and clean like a deep space/sea trip. The filter work is fantastic and comes to real life on a good speaker system (I own a pair of Tannoy 638 guided by a straight-ahead NAD amp). I have no idea whether the guys used analogue machines but this sounds fresh as a new production and is so comfortably wise in a synchronous way. Very good album.

Oliver Huntemann - Play! 01 [Live] Sao Paolo / Brazil - 02-Aug-07 11:28 AM
Fantastic mix! I've not heard such a good selection and DJ work for years. The mastering even has a raw club touch. There's only two points which have to do with Brazil eventually: The cheering crowd occurs waaay too often. It may depend on the "age" of the DJ who has seen hedonistic dancers and not only minimal movers so far ago. Secondly the Gui Boratto track does not fit in mix-blending nor in its sunlight mood. The Brazilian has done some darker works. And truely this mix is hot & dark as evil hell. Arriba muchacho ;-))

D-Saw / Euphorhythm - Track 10:30 / Patrik - 27-Apr-07 03:09 AM
The D-Saw track is a truly deep and minimalistic 303 masterpiece that needs only four notes to make the floor go insane. The track came to new fame 10 years after its first release when Sven Väth played it during his now legendary set at the Time Warp Rave 2006. He MCed throughout the whole set and created the phrase 'Gudelaunealder!' (roughly: "Be happy, guys!") while this massive tune was introduced. After minutes of building the tense Väth asked the crowd whether they have 'Gudelaune' and expanded the incoming bassline by some echo to make them drive completely mad on this beautiful and sophisticated track.

DJ Hell* - Electronicbody-Housemusic - 03-Apr-07 11:19 AM
Fantastic moments encounter to the listener on CD 1 as well as an hour of mostly name-dropping on CD 2. CD 1 has its magic moments in the change between cold-pressed German Tech-House and smashers like The Juan MacLean's 80ies homage or Derrick Carter's fanfare of the self-esteem. CD 1 is full of brilliant breaks and meets best the special claims of DJ Hell.

To me Playgroup's cover of Depeche Modes Snyth-hymn "Behind The Wheel" is the blowoff. Martin L. Gore has subsumed in several simple metaphors in this track that represent the whole range of music to me: worship and communication, emotion and auto-aggression, egocentrism and cultivated fear of the modern world, devotion and sex. Trevor Jackson / Ewan Pearson rearranged this in a simply hurting way. Unmatched...

The Recloose track as well as Carter's wake some consciousness but at first they kick ass while evolving from what human doubt is stuck in. They are best conjunct by Pantytec'c and Bobby Konders' jazzy rhytm patterns and fit the hedonistic dancer's mood perfectly.

Hell especially refers to "They keep dancing" following the liner notes and in fact it's arrangement is worth all attention but in my ears the full mix is brilliant in its eclectic approach of making you dance with a subtle order to keep s.th. in the back of your mind. Just beautiful!

To me as a passionate EBMer CD 2 don't hide too many surprises though I appreciate a lot that Hell MIXES some fine stuff since many DJs in this genre simply lack of any talent in creating a real flow. Nonetheless this CD is not at all reaching the top what the 1st one is doing in many ways...

Juno Reactor - Bible Of Dreams - 18-May-06 03:08 AM
Magic and piece of music. Juno Reactor found a way of various tempi and styles to reach the highest levels of power and spiritual emotion. No other electronic record has featured natural drums so incidentally and gave them such a tremendous effect on the dancer.

We'll have it another time out in the green on the river at night this summer!

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