From Dave Colbran Sent Mon, Jun 7th 1999, 12:02
From Dave Colbran Sent Mon, Jun 7th 1999, 12:02
some music me and my robots have been listening to at the weekend; Chart >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Terrordome - Terrordome (White) A Man Called Adam - Stay With Me (Tom Middleton Mix) (Other Records) Rainer Truby Compliation - Meltdown 99 (Nuphonic) CiM - Service Pack EP (Delsin) Jason Sparks - Left to Live For (Botchit and Scarper) Ian Pooley - What's Your Number (Jazzanova Mix) (V2) Hip Hop Forever-Kenny Dope Compilation (BBE) Nine Bar - Closing In (Richard Sen Mix) (Marble Bar) Push Button Objects - A Day In The Life (Skam) A Jedi's Knight Out Mix - Tom Middleton (Mixmag) Reviews >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A Man Called Adam - Stay With Me (Tom Middleton Mix) (Other Records) A return to form from the Balearic partnership AMCA. The remix business is done here by none other than flavour of the month, Tom Middleton, providing a vocal and a dub mix. The vocal side of Stay With Me, is a deep house package suggesting warm summer evenings and expensive cocktails. Almost perfect in the production stakes, it only fails for me in being a little too polished. The dub is slightly more downtempo and a tad too hypnotic for my liking. One for committed house-heads, others my find both tracks unadventurous. 7/10 Scott 4/Jeans - Jeans Record (Choke Bore Mix) (Folk Archive V2) Limited one side release from those indie / country groovers Scott 4, this is their take on the burgeoning nu-electro scene. Although, certainly a long distance from their previous material, this doesn't really succeed in the dancefloor stakes. It is a slow, even at plus 8, retro sounding electronic record, with space age vocals and not much else really, which is a shame as I was really looking forward to hearing it. Much better and recommended is Scott 4's regular output, including a new album in the pipline. 5/10 Max Brennan - Let's Go There Together (Sublime 034) Quite an odd slice of house funk from Max B , on the first listen it feels very dated. However a few more tries and it is better - heavy with the retro feel and added vocoder action result in a smooth groove monster of a thing. Probably worth checking before purchase, but if you know the Brennan sound, this and the flip Big Organ will float your boat. 7/10 CiM - Service Pack (Delsin) An excellent EP on the Dutch label Delsin. This is good value, even at import prices, as it represents a mini-album of sorts with 8 cuts in total, from this London producer. The overall feel is one of variety, as the tracks move from ambient downtemponess to nu-electro to some sharp crispy Detroit flavours. No one track stands out really, and as such is an indication of the quality of this release, a must have for fans of CiM's previous outputs on the Headspace label. Recommended. 9/10 laterz dave colbran 07788 797 830 http://come.to/davecolbran reclaim the streets - 18th june - 12 noon at liverpool st. station