Ashok "Former Industrialist with a Clue" Divarkaran wrote:
quoted 4 lines UBIK: This guy has helped Lagowski (GPR) in the past and I> UBIK: This guy has helped Lagowski (GPR) in the past and I
> hear he has a full-length CD out. Has anyone heard it,
> and if so, is it the nice crunchy hardtrance that sets
> my pulse racing?
I dunno about Ubik, but if "nice cruncy hardtrance" sets your pulse racing,
run - I repeat, run, don't walk - to get a copy of "Re-Load - The Compilation"
out on (wouldn't ya know it) Re-Load. Back at the start of the Great IDM
Debate a week or so ago, our young friend Forrest a.k.a. Ozy posited that
Re-Load isn't "Hardcore"; well, there are at least 3 tracks on this comp that
fit *my* definition of "Hardcore" (no, we're not talking the Blighty version
that the rest of us call "Breakbeat") - including Trax-X's "Gravity", which
is most definitely "Hahdcoah" in just about anybody's language. Now, those
are the tracks that are worth passing over, because the rest of it is "crunchy
hardtrance" and it's mighty tasty stuff. It includes, among other things:
- That Felix Da Housecat "Thee Morning After (Drum Drum mix)" track that
Forrest expressed his love for a few weeks ago
- Two different Dave Clarke tracks (Dave Clarke Red 2 - "Wisdom To The Wise"
and Dave Clarke Red 1 - "Protective Custody"; the latter featuring a
rather obvious sample copped from Ministry's "Stigmata") as well as an
awesome remix of Aphrohead's "In The Dark We Live" - one of those tracks
with those patented German "express train through your skull" rhythm tracks
that I personally wet my nappies over
- A track by Virtus that neatly skirts the line between "Hardcore" and
"crunchy hardtrance", mostly by liberally sampling an extra-crunchy Aphex
backbeat ...
- Other great tracks by Accelerator, Psychonautic Experiments 2 and an
interesting offbeat Ambient track by Chronos, which is being released by
their Re-Load Ambient sub-label
Not strictly "IDM", I suppose, but "crunchy hardtrance" is pretty intelligent
stuff in my book ... heartily recommended if you're into sort of thing.
- Greg