From marsel Sent Sat, Mar 3rd 2001, 13:54
From marsel Sent Sat, Mar 3rd 2001, 13:54
upcoming on forcefield Natural Electronics - Assimilated - 12" - Frictional - frct011 Anthony Shakir returns on his own label, with a gorgeous tune showing the best of his talents. Under the pseudonym he comes with three futuristic tunes, of which Assimilated is the most exiting. Chords go in a very Mad Mike/Galaxy2Galaxy together with a broken beat, make it very deeply funky. THe tracks on the b-side go in a more freaky, experimental way towards electro. But as ever with the freestyle approach of mr Shakir, to keep it very, very exiting. More please! Strand - Message 1 - 12" - Frictional - frct010 More very fine stuff from the Frictional label. Four deep tracks by Strand, aka Mr Bonds and Harrington. Sound of tunes comes most close to stuff by Shake and older Carl Craig. Freestyle all the way, strings, smooth rhythms and deeply soulful. Most tracks have deep, fine strings in them, in a blueprint Detroit techno way. Very fine, dreamy techno tunes. One of the finest and sweetest releases this year. Recommended. Various - Comin' from tha D - 12" - Intuit Solar - itu-008 Another showpack from the Intuit Solar label, filled with top electro tunes. Dopplereffekt comes with the already known Pornoactress, Dj Godfather brings the straight very bassbooty Watchlookinat?, filled with not that tasty vocals. Nicest tune of the record comes from Keith Tucker, leaving off with regular electrobreaks, but coming with a very spacey synthloo, which makes it very ravey and futuristic. Last track by Aaron Carl goes in between bootyhouse and electro. Uptempo banging beats. Nice package. Jay Dee - Welcome 2 Detroit - lp - BBE - bbebglp001 More Detroit stuff, but this time from the hiphop side. Welcome 2 Detroit is the long awaited album from allstar producer Jay Dee aka James Yancey. My expectations are very easily met, as I find it the best hiphop album this year, so far. Influences and styles are very broad, ranging from more disco towards funk, to brazilian/latin and other exotic things. Together with his known tight producing quality makes this album really sounding fat all the way down. Very, very cool! Various - Native sampler three - 12" - Native - ns3 To admit directly, mostly picked this record up for the unreleased track by Nuron, on the b-side. From the mr Smith, who used to run the Likemind label back some days. But the other tracks are very nice as well. Broom & Hill bring a very classic sounding housey track, in style of Ron Trent's Altered States, straight and effective. John Tejada and Arian Leviste also a tasty track along the same lines. Ben Sims brings a somewhat downtempo version of his normal stuff, dark twisted funk. The Nuron track at last is in the classic B12/Likemind sound, smooth and gentle. A very nice record all together. Duplex - Autosave - 12" - Ground Zero - gz002 Duplex are the Dutch rising stars, who already delivered fine stuff with eps on Clone. With this new twelve inch they even could rising much higher, as the tunes on this record are more dancefloor friendly as ever. Main track without doubt is Autosave, a very directive, catchy dancefloor track. Going in a Groove La Chord-way, and should easily find it's way to many dj-bags. Second track goes in a more electro way, while the flip brings some very warm tracks in the best Detroit tradition, towards old Jon Beltran-stuff. All very nice stuff! Ibex - Macamba - 12" - Planet E - pe65259 Shortly after his PLanet E debut, another twelve inch by Ibex. Four exotic housey tracks this time. First of is Macamba, very Latin sounding with lots of percussion and a very Octave One's Nicolette-like synth loop. Capraquarius goes more in a deeply funk way, with even more elusive synth stabs. The Last Laugh goes in a very clun-way, somewhat very direct. Last track Terra Firma takes it all smooth again, in a very dreamy way. Long delays and lots of space. Exotic things. Aardvarck - Ludiek - 12" - Delsin - 14dsr/aar2 Sneaky Aardvarck borrows on his newest EP a bassline from Theo Parrish and surrounds it with all kind of arrangements. Mike Kvits' broken beats go always straight mystified in thick clouds of ganja, and sound after four eps as adventurous as ever. (Rene) Various - Geology 2 - 12" - Planet E - pe65261 The second overview compilation Geology also comes with a four track 12", containing some already released and unreleased stuff. Very raw is the Future/Past-remix of a Common Factor track. Very un-Kirkish to say, in a hypnotizing manner. The b-side brings the better tunes, although already known. On there are Russ Gabriel's remix of At Les, known from the first Ferox compilation. Although (of course..) hard to beat the original, it very funky jammin' version. Further my personal favorite of the many Bug in.. remixes, the spiritual Street mix by Carl Craig himself, which appeared before on Mo Wax. Nice things. Pub - Do you ever regret pantomine? - cd - Ampoule - ampoule lp01 The Scottish Ampoule label comes with their first album, done by Pub. The album takes further on, where the smooth Summer single stopped. Dreamy, ambient sounds with a very organic live feel in it. Pretty whelming, very dreamy and hypnotizing, in a way it reminded me to older stuff by The Orb and KLF. But with it's clicks and stuff, and the warm thick curtains of melodies it's ending up as maybe a mix between Pole, Arovane and Boards of Canada? Too hard to catch actually, and to less to comparise. Pub is Pub, and this is very, very beautiful stuff. .. . :: http://nomorewords.net