Green Velvet – Destination Unknown EP

The break at 5:16 on Destination Unknown is totally EPIC!!

This 4 track EP are just Seminal Top Mountain release ........

Destination Unknown (just amazing, slowly epileptic break devastating any floor)
Land of the Lost (Exellent Techno vocal)
Answering Machine (I love this track)

A must have EP

Destination Unknown: one of the best tension & release tunes in dance music, unmissable.

Masterpiece! Each track is a real unmissable classic! 5 stars without any doubts

One of the best Techno tracks ever made!
Destination Unknown?
We know destination!!
To damage dancefloors!!!
KILLER

A lot can, and has, been said about this release. It is a true masterpiece like most stuff by GV.
Just wanted to comment on the bassline on Stormy Weather. Just listen to it! 10/10.

Simply seminal techno record of the late 90s. Crazy loopy synth beat with a menacing backdrop of progressive acid... or something like that anyway. Classic track.

"Answering Machine" has to be one of the most unique house/techno tracks of all time. It’s clever and hilarious.

ich verstehs nich... hab jetz 3 mal original und remastered nacheinander bzw nebeneinander hergehört und warum sollte sich jemand mit den 2013 remixes abspeissen lassen... die remixe sind eh lahm, was ich bis auf felix da housecats remix auch erwartet hab... jemand der die energie und den brachialen sound getanzt hat weiss was ich meine... ich hab jedes mal pi in den augen wenn ich das original höre... die remasterde version ist dagegen geradezu kastriert brav bzw verheirat, mit 2 kindern, kombi, garten und hund, spiessig... für leute die von techno und nem rave in nem buch gelesen haben... und nen original repress kriegt man sicher schon auf vinyl billiger als einen der tracks digital einzeln (legal, eh klar)... kunst, die es verdient hätte brotlos zu bleiben... aber wer zum teufel ist green velvet... wurd ich vor einiger zeit ernsthaft von so nem jungen hüpfer gefragt... smartphones haben von raven eben keinen blassen schimmer .....

A truly special and radical moment in the history of Chicago house.
"Destination Unknown" is the furthest foray to date in the dark, crazy and industrial side of house. 9 minutes of psychopathic, oppressive, messy, irrepressible metallic groove sounding litterally like a black sabbath that would climax in a definitive and unforgettable tibetan gong.
This one can be seen as the achievement in the dark dancefloor research started 10 years before during the acid era through classics like Sleezy D's "I've Lost Control", although in my opinion Cajmere is more radical here in the sense that he goes frankly industrial in the beats without losing the house spirit, which can be seen as a real tour de force.
Also visually, the picture sleeve is without question one of the coolest in house history, with the artist succeeding in his devilish unlikely clash between J-C and The Joker, also closing an era of fascinating and wild U.S transvestite club-kids that was litterally buried at the same time with Michael Alig murdering his boyfriend drug dealer in NYC.
One will also note the perfectly cool and nasty "cross" logo that would also be taken with less fun and irony by Justice 10 years later.
I would love to say that this is a genre-defining record but it appeared that nobody was able or crazy enough to follow Cajmere in that perfect and radical balance of nasty and entertainment, so let's say that "Destination Unknown" is the epitome in its own, unique genre, and hope that new kids on the scene will be more looking at this one in search of creepy, twisted inspiration.