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Music CD - John Digweed: Transitions 4
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Music CD: Transitions 4
Artist: John Digweed
List Price: $17.98
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Manufacturer: Thrive
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Tracks:
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1. Julien Parise/A5B (Mikro Remix)
2. Henry Saiz/From Empty Lands Guy J/Geko
3. Jeff Bennett/In Spite Kabale and Liebe and Daniel Sanchez/Mumbling Yeah (Loco Dice Tribute Remix)
4. Nightguy/Pretty FaceHenry Saiz/From Tangled SeasMyers Briggs/Forever
5. Sian/Wear Your Scars Like Medals Kim Runic/Suspicious Blue Two Lone Swordsmen/Shack 54 (Jet Project Remix)
6. Plasmik/Pitch It (Claude VonStroke Remix) Jamie Stevens/Keep her space (Smith and Selway s Control Mix)
7. Jerome Sydenham and Tiger Stripes/Elevation (Ink and Needle Remix) Guy J/Under Pressure
8. Pascal Feos and Marc Mirror/Rezolution Spector/Mineral Orive (Jamie Stevens Remix) Jorg Burger/Superpicture
9. Pig and Dan/Dreams of Bells Emmanuel/Parade (Original Mix)
10. Solquid/Piknic Bugz (Original Mix) Solquid/Piknic Bugz (Gone Wild Mix)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0651249078826
Label: Thrive
Manufacturer: Thrive
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Thrive
Release Date: 2008-05-20
Studio: Thrive
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Powerful, Detailed, Full on
Comment: I have heard Digweed live and I have purchased his commercial releases. I have always been impressed with his live sets and typically underwhelmed by the cds. This Transitions, however, is a change, quickly and easily capturing some of the incredible talent of the live sets, in the studio.
Transitions Vol. 4 is incredible mixing, with a decent selection of music that keeps you interested, and wanting more. It is so hard to describe dance music these days with its varying categories and subgroups (from House, to Techno, to Tech-House, progressive, trance, electro and the like). But this set is a little bit of it all, done masterfully. The tracks evolve and tell you Digweed was paying attention to every bit vs. some DJs that throw on a track, leave the room only to return to throw on another track. That's not being a DJ, that's being a jukebox.
Never boring and without being totally repetitive (a problem that plagues too many commercial releases), this cd dives right in with layers of powerful music, innovative and stylist mixing that keeps Digweed relevant in this genre. Techno without being tedious, at last.
There are a few weak spots, however. I will continually pan DJs that forget that alarm clock sounds are designed to be annoying to the ear and, therefore, should not be allowed in their mixes, but those instances are rare and mildly forgivable.
I consider this one of the best Transitions and look forward to hearing more like it.
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Summary: After a smashing start.. what happened?
Comment: With one of the best starting sequences I've ever in any album, I was excited about transitions 4. However, the truth is there is nothing worth writing home about beyond track 3 (which is absolutely delicious, I may add). What a shame, after that opening.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Deep, dark club house
Comment: This is a very good set. I didn't like Transitions 3, or about half of Digweeds commercial sets (preferring live sets) but this was a suprise. Great heavy drums in the middle and at the end.
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Summary: Tight emFire edits & lush soundtrack, mostly weak remixes
Comment: This is a mixed bag -- the gems here are on the 2nd disc, because most of the remixes on the 1st disc are droney, boring, and don't add substantially to the originals' worth. For example, "Park It In The Shade (Audion Deep Steeple Mix)" is 12:20 min. long, but fails to really evolve aside from formulaic adding/removing elements in 8-bar sections. As background filler, it sort of works, but isn't compelling active listening. Overall, the remixes package is regressive, sad, and aimless -- the only one I'd speak up for is "Mongoose (The Fields Disco Mix)", because The Field has a rare gift to float hypnotic loops without being mind-numbingly boring. That's really rare in electronic music, and to give you a better idea where I'm coming from, I love it when producers can weave loops together with solo melodies, or introduce little bits and edits to spice things up (key example: James Holden's "A Break in the Clouds").
If you're new to Sasha's (and his collaborators) music, the 2nd disc is a fine dish, because the tighter edits are shorter (removing the long intros/outros meant for DJs to mix), punchier by virtue, and the melodies are in fine form. Progression abound! "Who Killed Sparky?" is a fine piece of melodic tech-prog-house-whatever-they-call-it-nowadays, peppered with glitchy edits that a fan of James Holden would love -- infact, it's reminiscent of Holden's ostinato-laden remix of Nathan Fake's "The Sky Was Pink".
The emFire melodies find their way into the "New Emissions Of Light & Sound Film Score", which is overall ambient/chill-out in mood and features variations of some of the aforementioned at slower tempos. For example, the distinctive lines of "Coma" find their way shortly past 13 minutes in. Very nice to go to sleep or relax to. As a mix that goes over 40 min., there are some parallels to past mixes Sasha's done, like Involver (Involver 2 coming up!): long pads, cloppy mid-tempo beats, and swirling arpeggiations bind the groove. It's a seamless, rewarding listening, which makes me wonder why some of the individual themes weren't developed more and included as unmixed tracks instead of the uninspiring remixes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A very boring mix. I sold it after 3 listens.
Comment: A very boring mix. I sold it after 3 listens. It's the tracks... very uneventful and flat. Vol. 3 was not very good either. Digweed is either way on point or totally off for me. Never inbetween. Transitions 2 is the best by far. Checkout his djmag mix. It's pretty good overall.
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Editorial Reviews:
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John Digweed concludes the first chapter of his Transitions series with a bang Since it's launch Transitions has become one of - if not - the most anticipated releases in the compilation calendar; over the past two years its single disc, twice-yearly format has provided dance music fans a regular, contemporary snapshot of the best in electronic dance music. Transitions Vol. 4 features a whopping 22 tracks and remixes from Two Lone Swordsmen, Claude VonStroke, Loco Dice, Jerome Sydenham and Tiger Stripes, Pig and Dan, Guy J and many more Now the first chapter in the Transitions' series reaches its conclusion with the highly anticipated fourth volume. In support of the album, John has reunited with former DJ partner Sasha for an extensive US tour that includes a highly anticipated Coachella appearance.
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