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SASHA - THE EMFIRE COLLECTION: MIXED, UNMIXED AND REMIXED (ULTRA) |
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The first few on disc one (the remixes) tracks feel like a marriage between house and ambient. The deep night personality of house drapes all over this but structurally, there's more in common with ambient. These songs employ repetition and airy production to create atmosphere. What some may find annoying - the same, spacious, minimalist pulse repeating across the expanse of a song, then another song after that does the same, then another - others will find absorbing. There's lots of either-or written all over the starter tunes here. But midway through the first disc, bona fide and beautiful house pops up. The sudden burst of energy takes things in a new direction. The production's roominess doesn't change much, but, obviously, the pulse does. There's still a reserve and a light sense of playfulness (oxymoron? so what) here, and that is a boon to the songs that round out the second half of the first disc. There are meaty pieces of texture that help create a juxtaposition in the sound; this only rounds out the maturity of disc one's persona. The second disc, which features the original tracks, as well as a bonus 40-minute film score from Sasha, kicks off with a flavor that is a bit more robust - but without dragging-down density - and buoyed up by an uplifting trance aura, though with mid-tempo restraint instead of full-tilt MDMA heart-bursting. From there it's a turn into textured yet trance-inspired house and dashes of quirkiness that hold up the quality that's been exhibited thus far. The minimal-meets-fullness quality also continues. The score gives Sasha a chance to play and move, mingling pulse and mood and transcending genre specificity. You might feel like dancing at many points during the course of this two-disc listen, but chances are you may - beats aside - feel like chilling and transcending yourself before this is all said and done.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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