5/26/07

Exercise One - Darkstar Ep

Exercise One... hum?!
Here in Minimaland, we're considering the hipothesys of adopt them as one of our favourites Producers,lol! A new great release from time to time and "Hugo, what's this? - Exercise One, then Francis says - Them again.. and I think, what the f*ck! always these guys!" The truth is they're always a surprise.. Since "Flight Cancelled", a soft chain in melody that pulls you, I follow their work and the sensation they leave is that they're making their own way .
In this Ep, "Dark Star", the first track, Dark Star is a progressive Bassline from the beggining till the end but with that bass that conducts your body, and I just can't stop my body, even if it's a finger! At the middle of it, a reverbed sound beggins eating your brains and then a voice come to eat the rest :) But a very worked track, the estructures and schemes of the sounds make you enter in a spiral with no return. Great progressive track to "stick" an audience to a construction part in a set to build a "nirvana".

Now's the best part. The second Track, "Melting" is more soft without being softly. If you ear it in surround, the sounds came from everywhere. I just adore this track, for me one of the bests this year! I could describe it for you, but my feeling in this track is undescritible. If you hear it, you'll know why I'm saying this :P

It's progressive, it's technique, it's "Bassy", it's polyrithmic, it's MinimaL, it's techy... it's almost everything I desired in a Ep.
I'll give a 4.9 in a 5 scale for this one :)

Exercise One - Dark Star Ep [Mobilee #024]


Release: 28 May 2007

5/22/07

Marc Antona & Anthony Collins - Sharks

Anthony Collins and Marc Antona (two uprising french producers that had have great releases recently) got together and released an exclent ep. Sharks is a pure minimal track, with a nice step-by-step construction leading it to nice moments. Am/Pm is my fav, it has all those small ingridients that you need to build up a master piece of minimal techno. A great bassline along with some neurotic samples just bringing back some old school feelings. A nice ep, that can become the step forward, to bring these guys to the top names of minimal music. Release nr 2 of Micro-Fibres, a brand new french sublabel of Freak n' Chic.

a1 - Sharks
b1 - Am/Pm

5/17/07

SLG - Remixes Pt 1 EP / Remixes Pt 2 EP

What a producer! Since his Caffeine Ep on Trapez, sub label of Traum Schallplatten, I was cativated by Slg (or Lukasz Seliga, from Poland).
His work is awesome, and his recent release of "Invisible EP" on level records is such one more achievement in the consolidation of his quality and work as a minimal/techno producer. So, Trapez, a label with gaven proofs of quality and promoter of their "pearls", challenged some Producers to give their own perspective on Slg's work in Trapez. And the result is here to be seen (or even better, heard!).
This remixes are all good, they're from Caffeine Ep and Sleepless Ep but my fav* is the one from Oliver Hacke, that since his remix in Subject Carrier, Remixes [Trapez], is always in my consideration for a new remix. Cause I think he manages very well a remix, giving a new vision and breath in the music, leaving the sensation that the original producer wanted to make that!
All the remixes are a point ahead, and well worked on details and polyrythmic estructures. A very good Ep, my rate is 4.8 in a 5 scale!
Without any surprise, will shake some actuations from quite some reputed dj's and producers in this Summer party's. :P

Remix Pt 1 [Trapez #76]
a - Florian Meindl - Coffeine Rmx
b - Fülent Gürler - Rushhour Rmx

Remix Pt 2 [Trapez #77]
a - Sandiego - Rushhour Rmx
b1 - Oliver Hacke - Sleepless Rmx
b2 - Lärsson - Nine hours Rmx

5/15/07

John Selway & Vincenzo - Dream Stealer Ep

Great release sended to me by Tailored Communication (electronic music tailored to fit),promoters of this excelent ep. I must confess i didn't knew John Selway but his qualitys along with Vincenzo ones are well shown in this album, minimal tech of top quality, and the Mull remix just keeps the flow going. Release nr 14 of CSM

Rls Notes:
"A side ‘Dream Stealer’ is techno at its most modern. Deep and expansive, it moves with an undercurrent of persuasive and confrontational energy. A fiery summer rhythm, the track comes to the boil with a climactic howl, progressing with an unrelenting stamina.
The B side remix by top tier Swedish techno producer Joel Mull takes a more concise route to the dance floor in combining the dark and flowing elements of the original with ghostly chimes and racing percussion."

a1 - Dream Stealer
b1 - Dream Stealer (Joel Mull remix)

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