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BLT
Anything U Want
Tokyo Dance
Clever trance for unstupid people. How's that for an opener? Not bad eh, and neither's MInd The Gap which kicks this album off in 142bmp-but-sounds-slower kinda stylee. It has a sort of shuffled progressive vibe to it, and its slightly silly (it spells FUN, basically). Fading away into a proggy breakdown, it's back and it's bad with low-set floorshaker of a bassline, before getting heftier still. Pretty nice. The Calling is rougher, and takes a while to find its percussive, driving feet, helped along by live drumming. Check the way it drops for its final run -- sheer class. Anything U Want is airier, almost like videogame music, with great drops -- BLT seems to pull these effortless grooves out of nowhere like a magician pulls rabbits out of hats. The Rain Song has an extreme bottom-end to it, with an amazonian jungle breakdown before hazey-retina synths lead into a foaming-at-the-mouth peak. Graceful Dead and Patterns Of... seem to lack some of the energy of the other tunes; perfectly adequate, but having seen what BLT's capable of thus far, they're low points. Luckily all the stops come out with Space Boogie, which you know from the name alone, is going to be a winner. It's almost borderline Isra-hell, its twisted organic energy rises and rises, there's enough melogy there to hold the crowd and -- egads!! a Led Zeppelin sample!! ALright! There's Finnish elements here, a nod to Bonky too, all with subtle earthy escalation. An awesome track, said psyreviews with a tip of the hat to BLT. Finally, Epitaph... and well, i've said it before and i'll say it again, but these kinda vocals really spoil it for me.. there's some here, a little like the infected mushroom "depeche mode through a megaphone" style. Epitaph itself is nice, with detroity stabs and good smooth progression, but these vocals... ouch. But we can forgive BLT this, of course we can, this is a real winner -- it's thoughtful trance that moves in ways you di dnt think were possible. Its got a kinda introspective tone through the whole CD which makes it stand up to repeated listens better than the "fullondancefloorstormer" variety, and at the end of the day BLT's abililty to create moody, effective grooves is something that everybody should experience.
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... 2004 
