taho - crossing the photonic belt

story time again so gather around people, leechers (who don't like me as i don't give out music) and you russian spammers (who think i am stupid enough to click their links). i was listening to taho's remix of timm kawohl's "afternoon sky" and loved it so much i wanted to write about it but and was looking to see if it still existed on the intarwebs as a listenable or legally downloadable entity. fact was that it didn't and on the remaining files from this release on the scene.org ftp, that thinner has reduced itself to after it folding the operation, was the paul keeley remix of "life in half" and the brian kage remix of "notorious hunter". both of which are great tracks but helps little with my request and i thought, maybe i'll put up a sample or something.

as i was going to write a bit on it, i wanted to also drop a word on taho's other productions to see if there was similarities and such and noticed that david jacopin aka taho had a proper catalogue and owned his own label called lumina. when listening to samples on few of these on juno and beatport i noticed that he also released a new single called "solar flare" a few months ago on snejl. a sort of deep housey affair but i don't really like it so i left that alone. the first thing in his catalogue that i listened to was the "vertige ep", his first single released on laurent garnier's f communications.

the thing i liked about taho's remix of "afternoon sky" was his use of heavy reverb and punchy drums. this aestethic was being purveyed on it but the music wasn't completely interesting. i moved onto his second release, the "elle ep" and as i pressed play on "zia", i heard this combination as well but with more somewhat more interesting music. problem was that the remix of "afternoon sky" was broken beats and these were mid 90's not quite techno and not quite trance and i was not looking for that.

i really scoured his entire catalogue to find something like the remix but found nothing of the sorts but i think i found something better. i started to notice that apart from his regular techno he would release beatless tracks as well and they would be brilliant and i was torn between a few of them like "energy fields" from the "forest of wonder ep", "dissolving shadow" from the "future ep" and then there was "crossing the photonic belt" from the "atlantess" ep. at last i had struck gold as it's synthy, drenched with reverb and sort of broken beat.

it's brilliant.

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