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Posted : Feb 24, 2005 00:57
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Back To The Future
Groove Zone (Japan)
Woah. Further proof that much of the invention and flair these days is to be found within the progressive arena, fresh label Groove Zone take in Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and more to bring a dazzling collection of talent together on one CD. Threshold Productions open with Free Dive, a slomo and laidback breakbeat opener that picks up nice percussive shuffle and has a real atmosphere of opening things up to what comes next. Japanese artist OMB pop up with Kani, which evolves into a whirling rush of sounds, very classy and more effective than a lot of the same style you’ll hear. Just *how* do these guys layer sounds like that, to make your heart feel floaty and your eyes glazed? Ryan Halifax teams up with Marc Vision for Don’t Worry, an effective bit of Germanic amyl-house that’s more about a sleazy low bass, before V-Tunes’ Sonar Groove , which fuses snarly, tecchy, dark progressive sounds with a fluid backbone. Denmark’s Psyless Groove do well with Plastic Karma, which suggests acidic melodies and sprinkles of goa, all pinned into a tight-as-hell groove. The combination between fluidity in the sounds and rigidity in the rhythm section is impressive, and the overall effect is a hooked, relaxed dancefloor. Segment’s oldie Whooky’s Wha gets a rework courtesy of Vibrasphere, whose unmistakeable pawprints are all over the finished product. Think a smooth Vibrasphere tune with stabs of the original, and you’re more or less there. Sensient’s Sublime has been getting great play round at psyreviews’ top floor London dockside penthouse apartment (cough) lately. Subtle, slight, hypnotic, it draws you in with just a subtle hint of something crazy to come. After a disorienting break, it picks up more buzz and flair, with huge depth in the sounds… listening to it is almost like listening to heavy, massive dub; and this is befor e the break, with a huge rising sound that takes it up and over into the final stretch. Utterly smashing and perfect for teasing the crowd with. Side-A’s Edelweiss (2nd Life) is wonderful, smooth and effective in just the same way as the earlier OMB tune, with escalating sounds and melodies perfectly balanced against each other. Finally, Sweden’s Andromeda comes up with what he does best with the intriguingly-named Porno Sonic Sounds, an intricate-yet-simple groovy little fella that just makes you wish it was morning, outdoors, and there was a bar nearby. The melody suggests itself politely, before coming in and straddling perfectly between not-enough and too-much, then floats around you like myriad gorgeous young women in a harem before zesting off into the atmosphere in a puff of dust, like a pathetic adolescent fantasy being relived by a grown “man”. All in all then, a nice little collection which combines the floaty and gorgeous with the slo-pumping and the menacing . All bases covered.
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1. Free dive - THRESHOLD PRODUCTIONS
2. Kani - OMB
3. Dont worry - HALIFAX AND VISION
4. Sonar groove - V-TUNES
5. Plastic karma - PSYLESS GROOV
6. Whookys wha (Vibrasphere rmx) - SEGMENT
7. Sublime - SENSIENT
8. Edelweiss (2nd Life) - SIDE-A
9. Porno Sonic Sounds - ANDROMEDA
 
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