along with a few but very notable records, this live recording encapsulates trance music. i knew of it through the rising high compilation "secret life of trance 2" which is one of those compos that has almost no bad tracks. but of course that has to do with the fact that it was a label compilation and rising high held a very high quality.
this was a track i believe my friend jan henrik steffensen mentioned to me when i talked about this compilation like 6+ years ago or so. it's an 808 and a few synths, sequencers and machines and they release so much musical ideas into this simple groove.
i can easily delve into a few cliches now about talking on how real trance music is a journey and this music really rewards paying attention. basically everything ishkur and other writers have written before but i think the key thing is to actually expose this to the common mass.
and by common mass i mean the people who got into trance after the anthemic wave. i don't want to use the name the name that these kids are hyping their own hugathon to but yeah, that crowd. armin van buuren who was/is their god did an attempt at exposing music that went beyond the kiddie pool when he played ben liebrand's "modular 1" on his radioshow "a state of trance".
and it was recieved blandly by that crowd but it was gobsmacking since liebrand just went above and beyond what pink elln & atom heart did back in '92/'93 when they did these live shows. then again liebrand did his track in a studio and he probably worked on it a lot but none the less it's just the ideas of repetious entrancing music which was conveyed perfectly.
then again this live show/track isn't repetitous but it's very entrancing and with the right dj at hand, i'd love to hear it's working in a set since it could easily work as a tool. but yeah it should be listened to it's own and listen to the power of machines.
here is the point where i'd link you to the songs that i know used to be available on either juno or something like since platipus used to have it up but after looking on the intarwebs. it cannot be found. i'd link you to youtube links but it's pointless since both track that the ep contains are over 20 minutes long. so search for the thing yourselves.
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