mini reviews #8

eight edition now and for this one i asked another person i've had in mind of asking when i started this thing. he is jack moss and is an opinionated fucker (like me) and a music journalist, or not. his blog states that he is not but he's made clear elsewhere that what he wants to do. he's not anyone shy of a debate about music, arts or anything in general.

he is also a person who doesn't like when people like to describe as genres or subgenres as being dead just because the trend of said genre/subgenre is over, it's all a matter of digging deeper and so forth. he also try to knock out a few mixes here and there and they are mostly themed in a special manner and try to feature tracks that noone (read, the beatport top 10 followers) plays. yunno, how a real dj does it but i'm not sure he'll call himself that either....

01. actraiser - wip3out | youtube
punchy trance that wears dub influences, i like this and i like the idea of that reverbed out compressed 909 snare but it's annoying in the end.

02. amoebassassin - the rollercoaster | youtube
it does flow like a rollercoaster with the builds & release within the track, only heard oakey's mix before. i enjoyed this one more than his.

03. amorphous androgynous - ephidrena | youtube
nice heavy electronic dub, i've heard this one before and i enjoy it a lot

04. deep space organisms - into the blue | spotify
i liked this one a lot, it's trancy and ultra-melodic but in that good way that is quite rare.

05. faust vs. dälek - t-electronique | youtube
the heavy drums and guitar feedback caught my attention, it can't go downhill from there and it didn't. top stuff.

06. geomatic - shesqi | youtube
more drums, quite liked this as well. sounds like a bit like juno reactor circa bible of dreams.

07. basil poledouris - tower of set | youtube
while i may appreciate it when it's played in it's context, i did not like this one at all.

08. shpongle - periscopes of consciousness (greg hunter edit) | youtube
the first half is horrendous but once the taiko drums kick in, it's tolerable but then the vocals come in again... ugh.

09. taho - the sun star | spotify
good melodic prog but it's also sort of wallpaper.

10. union jack - water drums | youtube
heard this one before plenty of times and as much it's near cretu & sanchez levels of cliché, i still like it.

thanks for those ten jack. and as always i asked if he wanted to anything extra about his picks and his response was:

these are all tracks I find "interesting". none of them are wildly experimental, more subtly subversive. i want to use most of them in a dj set but can't make them work, although this tracklist might flow weirdly well as a mixtape.

right on.