▼Berlin ( BE ) - Germany
Admin of artists : AX11 FR4GGLESMASH
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Techno, Trance, psytrance, Psychedelic music
Considering that it was more or less a one-shot-experiment, you're excused for publishing a single track as this one is worth a release. I whish you had kept it as minimal but powerful as it is during the first part and then proceeded more seamlessly to the third. The dissonant counterpoint of the middle part costs a lot of tension that might have given the complete track a denser tension line.
Pretty good, state-of-the-art deep house. The high-pitched rhodes in "arrandazzatava" seem a little irritating to me, but that's a matter of taste. Very good production!
Even if you consider that "the art" has been in this state of jungle for 15 years now. But that's the general dilemma of this decade's music. The nineteen-nineties had it all, but before you could look twice a style had vanished and and just another brand new thing had taken it's place. So we're damned to be restaurative (which doesn't have to be the same as "conservative") and fill all the drawers that have been labeled years ago.
Sehr groovige, unkonventionelle EP, die gut ausbalanciert aus vertrauten Acid-Referenzen und eher überraschenden Sounds phatt und raumgreifend in der weiten Ebende zwischen Dark- und Tech-House aufsetzt.
Way more than just Acid. There's quite some "4 on the floor", but sure no claps on the 2s and 4s or 12s and 15s. There's a solid, reduced to the minimum old-skool-psytrance rhythm group powering 303style acid basslines and "classic" low-pass/resonance rides on restless arpeggios, but that still is not all there is. "Battery" and "North Pole" are clearly off-scheme, featuring Electro and Two-Step drum patterns. The sounds might partially sound a little bit antiquated but you could also call them "well probed" - mostly. Some indeed smell funny ;)
Anyway worth listening and rather a shy step to newer shores by recombining known patterns than radically new, but what has been really new in the last decade's electronic music?
Or just waste of time and bandwith? What did you do the recording with? Monodeck in a trashcan? Even if the music was acceptable (which it isn't) the recording is so lousy that you can barely identify it as such.
Of course you *can* upload just any crap just to piss people off, if this is what you wanted to find out...
Cool french touch! The first track really makes me wish it still was summer. I love the way how the disco loop and the smooth, fat bassline are interacting.
The second one ("Medley"?! I didn't hear that since the days of Easy Listening - and, honestly, I did not exactly miss it ;)) sounds a little overcrompressed to me. Sure still solid work and wuite a funky thing, but the backing track is rather trivial and gives a fucked-up taste to the rest of the mix.
Look, who's there :) Mr White "Probably The Last" Zone, again - and he's got something that is not exactly easy to judge or -if it's meant to be a good one- to produce: a remix. I actually think it is a good one, but I will have to spend some more time listening, as the original track takes damn long to download. (Note to myself: URI of original source missing, uh-oh!)
OK ...the original track is not bad at the first glance. Much stronger bass line, almost perfect mixdown and that specific 12&15/16th "acid" groove. At the second glance it's a rather boring and uninspired track - which is almost certainly the reason why it went to some RMX-contest for vivisection: let some unpaid no-names do the shitty work and re-release it in a profitable way that gives most of the credits to the maker of the messed up original track... Not here! All glory to the Re-Editor did the magic (say: "dirty and ungrateful work") and reanimated the carcass that its own creators had left for dead. 9 of 10 (minus 1 for not supplying the original track's URI - just kidding...)
I'm not too deep into the "two-steppy" matter, but I guess that's just how it should be: the distant, perfect irony of minimal tech in symbiosis with the more groovy (and less annoying) parts of these old jungle roots.
Wow - I'd really like to know some more about how this album was made. The sounds seem warm and evolving enough to be recorded from analogue sources - but who on earth might own the museum full of synth legends, that would have been needed for this flood of different sounds?
So I bet on a Roland 808 (clone), something like a JB 8000 and some very elaborately programmed emulators. The composition obviously was done by someone who knows what he does (but who couldn't completely avoid getting lost in the vast garden of modular synthesis at some times :)).
Nevertheless, if you are playing on the grounds of retro-synth pop, you have got to be absolutely perfect as well as quite innovative to earn your pot of flowers. The first is definitely the case, the latter -I bet, you know by youself: There's at least one star more in reach, so stretch!
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