Oliver Ho – Listening To The Voice Inside

REALLY good techno album, another release I would have liked to had on vinyl !!

Just walked into this album. Know Oliver Ho from back in my beginning tribal techno days when I started collecting and playing in the local barns around my hometown. I do not know why I am back here and scrolling through his catalogue. Coming back to this after so many years with different experiences, memories and seen the scenes change from tribal to minimal back to disco, business techno, trance, breakbeat and drum & bass this style never stops to make me move. Amazing mixing material to be creative and keep the dancefloor grooving and tripping till the early morning hours. Techno is eternal.

I listened to this record once along time ago not because of Oliver Ho, but because of the somewhat freaky cover. I don't know why i did that. Then, i came along a copy of this at 15 euro's, and i bought it. I also don't know why i did that. When it came in, the tracks did nothing to me, they we're simply weird easy-going tribal tracks. I kept playing them though, still not knowing why. Today i came by this record at 4 euro's again, i bought a second copy. Clueless why.

Either i won't accept the fact that this record has some of the finest trippy tribal techno (including one off-beat banger, i must admit) ever made, or Oliver Ho has hypnotised me. I don't know why i think he would've. And he shouldn't have. But did he? Maybe i should play that record just one more time...

Eerie tribal techno with soem minimal nodders. The sort of music pagans would shuffle around neolithic standing stones or plot ley-lines by the stars in a gloomy glade. Well worht tracking down if you can find it. It may take a few spins to get a feel for it but this is still streets ahead of cliched South American styled generic cod that some lazy specimens still try to tout to unsuspecting marks as fresh sounds.

Oliver Ho on a very deep trip. His typical use of long, stretched chants put on top of tribal drums creates a hypnotical atmosphere... Sounds for the obsessed.