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Fans of the old school, full-power sound may correctly feel a little rejected lately. Bored by minimal, alienated by progressive and scared by wobbly, they finally have an outlet that’s damn good quality and reminds us just how enjoyable this slice of the trance cake can be. Astrix & Atomic Pulse’s Scientific Reality is pure class in a glass, with perfect breaks and even a kicking, well-used set of samples. The breakdown descends into a spooky vacuous silence before the perfect – and I mean THE perfect – fullon line comes in and devastates like satan’s fart in a roomful of nuns. Cheesy perhaps, but one of the most impressive, ballsy and enjoyable stompers of the year. Oforia’s Grounded is not his best, and slightly cheesy, but the mechanical liftoff of the final section is effective and enjoyable. PsyCraft’s mix of Space Cat’s Power Up certainly does the job, we liked this one on the back of the Power Up Single a couple of months ago and it’s been doing the business ever since. More balls than Fifa and an innate sense of when to drop a killer melody. Xerox & Freeman’s Party Zoo is Israeli multiplied by ten – the rolling bassline, the spacey samples, the hugely satisfying high-ends, the big break and the nice energetic finale. Cosma’s remix of Psy Sex’s Dominatrix is top (a happy acidline bubbling up and down like it’s 1996 amid dropped beats) as is Illumination’s Escape (a dark and textured growler, set watches to 2:25am, the feel is spacey and twisted and dancing 303’s light up the night sky while silly samples and daft guitars rain down like pint glasses of pee at a heavy metal concert.) Subs’ To Experience and Yahel’s Revolution are a little empty by comparison, but Infected Mushroom’s defiantly cinematic Smahuta is a wicked close to a frankly wicked and kicking album.
Rating: 4 out of 5 |
