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Music CD - Dubfire: Global Underground: Taipei (GU31)
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Music CD: Global Underground: Taipei (GU31)
Artist: Dubfire
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Manufacturer: Global Underground
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Tracks:
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1. Intro: It Comes From Inside - The Low End Specialists
2. I Try - Francois Dubois
3. Barbeque - Myself
4. Sun Is Rising - Lance Jordan
5. Swimming Places - Julien Jabre
6. So Let the Wind Come - Kerri Chandler
7. In White Rooms - Booka Shade
8. Hustler - Simian Mobile Disco
9. Remember Me - Ballroom
10. The Afterlife - Deetron
11. The DJ, the Music & Me - Lula
12. My House - DJ Simi
13. Do What U Do - Yoshimoto
14. I Feel Speed - Dubfire
15. Kill 100 - X-Press 2
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828272203123
Label: Global Underground
Manufacturer: Global Underground
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Global Underground
Release Date: 2007-04-09
Studio: Global Underground
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: E-Beat Buffet
Comment: I used to go to Renaissance's Master Series for the latest, greatest and most creative in EDM, but GU has been amping up the competition for some time now, and this 31st installment is barely an exception. Taking the helm this time around is one-half of the dark groove duo known as Deep Dish: Dubfire (although his mother calls him Ali Shirazinia).
I've seen Deep Dish live twice, and both times I was struck by how emotionally removed the two were from their sets. I know it's a job that requires a certain amount of focus, but it's also an art of a kind. Art is about communicating on a level beyond the explicable. It's not enough to turn the tables with skill; you're also trying to engage the audience with a music that speaks to everyone involved. Watching the Deep and the Dish soberly flipping discs in and out made me wonder if they felt the music as much as they wanted the audience to.
Live sets, of course, are much different than recorded discs (even if the discs are recorded live), but I offer that observation up to underscore the only real issue I have with Dubfire's two-disc GU set. The trickiest part to writing about music is about pinpointing elusive (and usually subjective) emotional resonances, it's about putting into words something that is meant to be indefinable. After all, isn't that why EDM music exists? Because nerves don't know how to talk?
Dubfire's discs run the gamut, and they run them well, but they seem more intent on displaying technical proficiency than on capturing a groove. Both sides of this set sound like a primer course in the evolution of EDM, which is nice for someone who wants a sampler platter of sub-house sound. For others who seek out music on the basis of their mood, well, you'll find yourself both loving and hating this compilation.
Disc One, for instance, pours out slow and smooth with the caramel grooves of Dubois' "I Try." Dubfire adds a little Haunted to his House with Barbeque's "Myself" and a taunting mix of Jordan and Boryka's "Sun Is Rising." This mood -- a low-blood, endothermic simmer -- moseys not-so-poorly up to the ninth track -- Ballroom's "Remember Me" -- at which point Dubfire, perhaps bored, stops riding the trance rails and starts throwing on the tribal thrusters. There's a really, really nice mid-octane quartet in the 11th to 14th tracks, sort of a sloppy supersonic space race of music, but shoved where it is at the tail end of a gut-deep, lounge-lizard line-up, it seems oddly out of place. It forces you to motivate your mood, instead of following the natural rhythms of the music that preceded it.
The second disc has perhaps a better ratio of stand-alone tracks, but it is even less cohesive than the first. It's always bad, with sets like these, when the reviewer feels compelled to pluck out favorite tracks instead of mentioning how well everything meshes, and that's exactly what I'm about to do here. I kept going back to "The Sax Track" (a super crunchy psy-trance number), Robbie Rivera's endearingly cheesy "Float Away" (which Dubfire deliciously over-coats with a minimalist techno twitter that I found highly addictive), and Heinstein's head-banging, aptly titled "Tuff Tribal." The connective tissue isn't bad, either (although the inclusion of the Huntermann and Bodzin redub of Depeche Mode's "Everything Counts" I found jarring and bewildering). But it all lumps together styles and genres that -- while not mutually exclusive -- need more than masterful mixing to get them to meld.
Like those live sets all over again, I found Dubfire's GU submission delightful but also disappointing. I appreciate and even admire his talent in this rather difficult of art forms, but it seems to me that he (and many of his contemporaries) would do well to remember that before they ever mix music to move their audience, they should be mixing foremost to move themselves. Sets like these are stunning in the the talent they display, but missing still is the sense that this is someone doing something other than showing off what they can do. The lamest dancers out there are the ones who are acutely aware of being watched, who aren't having fun with themselves at all. Dubfire did well with GU31, but I doubt he mixed it while dancing with his headphones on.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good music for Nature - for Nature One !!!
Comment: This is a great mixed up compilation of good house and minimal house.
Last weekend we were at the camping village of Nature One. And we played this CD's the hole time.
It was a great time there with the finest of electronic music.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ...classy but uneven...3.5 stars
Comment: Dubfire's Taipei represents his rebuttal to his co-conspirator Sharam's Dubai outing on GU29.
Dubfire starts out in afterclub mode and is silky smooth to track 5 but then follows a difficult and somewhat awkward/weird segue/transition to track 11 where he veers "right" into a tribal, minimalisitic Digweed - Hong Kong/Sydney/ Deep Dish - Moscow mode...track 13 turns vocal, with Dubfire's own "I Feel Speed" highlighting the final part of the set...transitions notwithstanding, a rather solid, though uneven first cd.
Anticipation of a more theatrical second set proved disappointing. Dubfire seems neither here nor there on the second cd, which is even more uneven, with only tracks 3,6,8,13 & 14 worth any mentioning. It sounds hodgepodge/generic in places and never really flows until the end. He's better than this.
In hindsight, he probably could've done the job with one disc, though it would've been harder to meld the tracks together.
I give Dubfire the benefit of the doubt as clearly he is'nt in experimental mode this time around. It does seem, judging by the track-by-track explanations, that a little self-indulgence entered into the process.
The brilliant Moscow and Toronto discs set the bar high for these guys and it seems that since then there's been a little regression (George is on).
I have'nt heard Sharam's Dubai but i'm less inclined to the more vocal aspects of house music. Nevertheless, i'll check it out and put it through paces.
That said, Dubfire remains a class act.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not as good as Toronto - but still great
Comment: I think this is probably the best Album since Toronto. I did like Sharam (Dubai) as well, but the deep tracks is what gives this one the edge. The point is you can't go wrong with either Dubfire or Sharam. Though after hearing both CD's, CD 1 is far better, sort of what happened with - Deep Dish, Moscow.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Now that's more like it
Comment: Doctor trance was right, dubfire indeed throws everything at you but the kitchen sink. Now I know who is the better half of Deep Dish... (sorry Sharam). You actually can't help by compare the two Global underground releases (Dubai & Taipei), whereas unlike Sharam, Dubfire really burns the house down with scorching tracks right from the very beginning. Dubai, on the other hand, was more garage and commercial, and I don't mean that in a good way either.
If you want irresistible dance music for your friends and yourself to dance to all night...well think nowhere else but here my friends. Dubfire will instantly take you on a virtual rave at a posh venue that feels so real, right at the comfort of your home. During my first listen to GU Taipei, I couldn't stop myself from having flashbacks of clubs I've been to recently; full dance floors, beaming laser lights, people jumping, screaming, music coming at you from everywhere and of course that thumping BASS that drives your soul and escorts you to the labyrinth of the tracks. All of that is found right here in GU 31.
And so when you are done, completely fulfilled and ready to calm down then you might want to play Sharam's Dubai. Maybe they do complete each other after all.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia answers Deep Dish co-conspirator Sharam's recent solo Global Underground release (GU29: Dubai) with one of his own: Taipei. The journey starts with a mellow house vibe that has both atmospherics and funk in plentiful supply. Francois Dubois's "I Try" greets the listener with a shimmering organ line, Myself's "Barbeque" gives an idea of what it might be like to hear a ghost talking through a vocoder, and the lilting string section of Julien Jabre's "Swimming Places" will melt the ice in your drink. The direction changes with the molten electro of Booka Shade's "White Rooms," and from there it's off to the races. Disc 2 hits the ground running, as the industrial menace of Nitzer Ebb's "Control I'm Here"--which comes off as even creepier than the original--sets the stage for an unforgiving trip through the darker provinces of dance music. While a number of tracks such as Nic Fanciulli's "Lucky Heather" are inescapably engaging, others, like Robbie Rivera's "Float Away" (with its barely passable lyrics) don't fare as well. Taken as a whole, Dubfire fans will be happy that the DJ has pulled no punches, though it's likely that listeners who love the first disc will find the second a little punishing for their taste. Perhaps this is the price of eclecticism. --Brent Kallmer
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