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 MINISTRY OF SOUND – Electro House Sessions 3
(Ministry Of Sound/Universal)
Genresize Me!™: Electro
Perfect for: Movin’ on up from autotune-pop.
The drop: How’s electro doing? Judging by Klass’ effort on disc one, the genre is stalling faster than a Russian airliner, with ideas seemingly running out as producers wheel out remix after remix. But, I’m more inclined to think that Klass simply sorted through the mail in the kitchen of his Cologne apartment, saw one from Ministry Of Sound, opened it and a cheque fell out. I guess The Only’s effort does increase the energy by speeding up the saw oscillators, but it still remains a simple replica of a festival set, umpteenth rerun of Bangkok included. If you’re in the market for electro, pass this one by. And if you’re in the need for digital snooze, buy an alarm clock.
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GLOBAL UNDERGROUND 038 – Carl Cox
(Global Underground/Stomp)
Genresize Me!™: Tribal/Techno
Perfect for: The experience, man!
The drop: I had wondered how Global Underground was going to avoid giving Hobart a comp, because they’re running a bit low on cities. It seems natural enough to start honouring major festivals, which is why the Big Cox is doing a GU for Black Rock. Does he recreate the Burning Man experience? Well, yes. Both discs are recorded live out of the mixer at Opulent Temple – musically, worlds apart from Coxy’s local summer festival appearances – and dark pads and percussive tech are all over, easily appealing to the notion of being pumped outdoors in the middle of nowhere. Get into it – this is the closest most of us will get to having orgies naked in the desert.
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MASIF HARD DANCE ICONS – Lisa Lashes
(Ministry Of Sound/Universal)
Genresize Me!™: Hard Dance/NRG
Perfect for: Adventjah and Systo graduates.
The drop: Fair call to name Lashes as the latest Hard Dance Icon; she wields the sword as well as any of the generally unattractive fat and/or bald dudes that have ever played a rave around here. And it looks like she’s recovered from her poor showing on the recent Good Greef comp – gone is the dated hard house, replaced by a smart showing of tech- and hard trance through to NRG. It’s still not exactly cutting the edge off her modern Dutch counterparts, and a little more attention in the transitions and gains of opposing tracks wouldn’t have gone astray – but much like Proteus’ effort for Masif, at least it’s good to see a bit of live mixing for a change.
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 CR2 PRESENTS – Live & Direct Miami 2010
(Cr2 Records/Sony)
Genresize Me!™: Balearic/Tech House
Perfect for: People who can’t afford to go to WMC or Ibiza.
The drop: In the midst of all the excitement happening during our summer, you may have forgotten that Miami is in the middle of their Winter Music Conference. Someone’s always holding up the moneybag ready to collect, and this year it’s Cr2 putting out a triple set to celebrate the tracks they haven’t even heard yet. Predictably, there’s a Balearic surf ‘n’ sand combo for the ‘day’ disc, superclub tech-house out the asshole on the ‘night’ disc and last year’s Cr2 releases for the ‘classics’ disc. None of which will particularly inspire you to do anything, except for maybe remembering how much you hate the beach, think about how expensive club drinks are, or wonder how anyone on Earth would consider Tum Tum a fuckin’ classic.
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SCOTT HARMS (Scott is happy to accept cheques in the mail as much as the next guy!)
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