this one i first heard on torsten fenslau's set from german radiostation hr3's special clubnight event at the hessentag in july of 1993. a friend of mine passed the set onto me in 2006 or so and it quickly became a favourite as it was all sorts of madness. fenslau had a fired up crowd and played some of the big club hits the first half of the set and then started playing more different stuff. i discovered things like structure's "emergency", tranceformer's "be my lover", bassman / de la ray's "las palmas" and this track.
"brick house (l.b.'s theme)" is from the second illuminatae / xvx ep where the a-side is the sublime acid trancer "tempestada". the persons behind is gordon matthews and doug osbourne, or as they're more known respectively dj edge and one third of sourmash and razor's edge. part of made like this track was that it changed mood over the following six minutes.
it starts very atmospheric and there is an idea of maybe it could be a balearic piece of music but that is nixed when as the percussion kicks in. once the beat is full force it's kind standard 90's club techno and when the bassline kicks in there is a nice groove. then comes an element that is very early 90's where it goes into a section of a chunky ravey lead dominating. that doesn't stay for long and it goes back into the groove but it starts to build for the small drop near the end. those pads from the intro makes an appearance again and as the break ends it goes into beats as it's mixout section.
structurally it's very ninetees as it cuts through sections and there isn't the idea of taking time for the music as the dj knows how to play something like this. it's fun but i've had terrible experience playing it as i didn't know how to work it but that changed eventually. it's a killer track and a few years ago i would have said, i have no idea if it would ever fit the context of a modern set but given the room and it would.
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