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- ~~2The Dance Floor. 15 Hollycombe Close, Liphook, Hants. GU30 7HR. England.
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- In this section we shall be reviewing music. Most of the time it should,
- hopefully, be new releases. Although some older songs/tunes may be reviewed
- as well.
-
- Note: We want your input to this section also, (aren't we generous!), at
- the moment we only have Dance Music on the agenda for this section, if you
- want other styles to be reviewed, please write to the address above and say
- which, and we'll try to get someone to review it for you each issue. But
- for the mo, it'll have to be Dance.
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- ~~5DANCE MUSIC
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- ~~6Singles
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- "Time to Find Me" by Seefeel/Aphex Twin on Too Pure records.
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- Those who know anything about Aphex Twin, (Richard James), will know how
- remarkably hard it is to track down any records that he produces. For a
- start, he records under various names, for instance, Polygon Window, AFX,
- Rephlex, Caustic Window, and possibly others. Who knows? I've even picked
- up records made by him that have absolutely nothing at all written on the
- labels, (the so called white-labels of the music industry, or in this case
- they were blue and red labels).
-
- But this record may not be so hard to find. For a start, it's actually
- recorded under the name of Aphex Twin, so you'll find it in the right
- section in the record shop, and also the name is printed in fairly large
- letters. Anyway, as to the track, it is definitely up to the standard we've
- all come to expect from Aphex Twin.
-
- There are two mixes of the title track on the first side of the single and
- on the second side is a totally seperate song by just Seefeel.
-
- The first mix is the afx fast mix, and is filled with very hard metallic
- sounding drum rhythms, a beautiful bassline and a soft, gentle female vocal
- that sounds almost ghostly, although that could be the large reverb/echo
- always found in Aphex Twin's tracks. The tune sounds almost indie-ish, in
- fact, rather like a Sugarcube's track or Curve track, but made with
- "Techno" instruments rather than guitars.
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- The second mix is the afx slow mix. It's not much different really, except
- a lot slower and there is less of the vocal.
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- On the whole, a very thoughtful piece of music and an original tune.
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- 9/10 - [cb1am1]
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- ~~6Albums
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- "Electronica - American and European Technological Innovations - vol 1" by
- Various on Beechwood Music Ltd
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- Dance compilations seem to spring up every month or so, and nearly always
- never do the scene much justice, normally including a lot of "chart" music
- which perhaps is not the better side of dance.
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- But once in a while, something really good and worth waiting for comes
- along. I'd say Electronica fits quite nicely into that category.
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- Almost all angles of dance music are included here, (with the exception of
- perhaps Garage, Rave amd Hiphop), there's some House, some spacey-Techno, a
- touch of Acid, etc. It is a double album with eight tracks on it, two each
- side.
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- Underground Resistance, (one of my favourite old Detroit techno acts), is
- on here with the spacey track "The Final Frontier".
-
- Nico delivers the goods with a great acid-stomper called "Darkstar
- [positive outlook]"
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- The range of styles available on this album certainly goes to prove that
- there are those artists out there on the Dance scene who know what they're
- doing. Also, the album shows how much Techno has become an international
- language between nearly every country on the map.
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- This is, arguably, one of the best dance compilations of this year so far.
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- 8/10 - [cb1am1]
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- [cb1am1 - Evolution]
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