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Reviews By Sean Patrick
| Artist | Sasha |
| Track Name | Airdrawndagger (3x12") |
| Label | Arista/BMG |
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Release Date |
August 2002 |
| Genre | Progressive House/Break beat |
| Review |
Six years in the making, has it
been worth the wait? To be honest no! There are nine tracks on
the album, I have reviewed them individually below. Wavy Gravy - First track to be released as a single from the album. Haunting ambient synths over simple break beats building to a nice floaty melody. More of a soundtrack than a dance track 4/5 Immortal - Another breaks track, deep and dark bassline overlaid with spacey noises. 2.5/5 Mr Tiddles - Oriental sounding chiming synths accompanied by a beatless droning bassline. An album filler I'm afraid! 1/5 Bloodlock - First 4/4 track on the album, much more dancefloor friendly than the rest of the album. Filtered chiming synths builds to a droning deep bassline eventually changing to a fat hard bassline before coming back down. 4/5 Fundamental - Filtered breaks and sound effects again! Not alot of variation, a sort of breakbeat Mr Tiddles. 2/5 Boilerroom - Another breaks percussion played through a filter! Can you see a pattern emerging here? Reverse playing synths sounding like a bored bloke playing bagpipes, then completely changing to much beefier breaks, bass and keyboards finally winding down again. 3/5 Drempels - Beatless slow chilled out synths, another armchair track! 2/5 Magnetic North - Anther soundtrack sounding breakbeat track, nice laid back swirly synths and bassline one of the better ones. 3.5/5 Golden Arm - The only other 4/4 track on the album, dubby bassline building to a heavier beat but again nothing outstanding here. 2.5/5 Overall Verdict This is definitely an album made by Sasha the musician and not Sasha the DJ. An album made more for listening to rather than playing in a DJ set, anybody expecting tracks like Xpander will be disappointed. I would imagine the any further releasesfrom this album will need seriously remixing! 3/5 |
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