Did some trades to pick up a couple of CDs on the weekend - with both being NZ
releases I thought I'd do a bit of a spiel about them. I'm pretty crap at
writing reviews so apologies in advance.
v/a - nurture [nurture / kog transmissions]
If you managed to pick up any of their records you know what to expect - nice
synths, warm bass, interesting percussion, minimal techno with personality
basically - I love it. If you haven't got any of the records then this is a
great place to start, its got most of the best tracks from the records on it -
from the incredibly blissed out opener track by son.sine to the breakbeat
tech-house of mattno from the debut release (nice name change too...). Its
even got a new track by Cyrus Facciano. Only track I don't think fits in is
the Clone one - it sounds as if they reemastered the track while on +8 or
something. Bit of a pity really since I love the other tracks on that 12 to
bits. Anyway nurture is easily my favourite NZ label so if you want to find
out why go grab a copy. The domestic NZ release is out but I'm not sure about
the rest of the world (domestic does not equal NA release - OK?). For more
info on nurture check the idm archives.
v/a - welcome to... (huh!)
Another compilation, this one being an introduction to the NZ house scene. I
picked this up thinking that it would be more in line with what I enjoy about
NZ house (rather than say the Algorithm CDs on Kog) but I'm wrong. Right from
the word go there's far too much wack slap bass for me. Nevermind - it does
contain the absolute classic "Earth is the Place" by Nathan Haines, and some
other decent tracks like the ones by Soane and Rob Salmon. Oh and a
Peak:Shift one too (label owner of Nurture...) - that track's more my style.
Dave
ps these Treibstoff tracks sound great!
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