Sasha

Jess I will respond to your wise comments when I get back from uni.

(*unless of course tim is just channelling my grandmother, who wouldn't stoop to saying "ass" or "acre" and would merely say "don't be wise." to which we would sniggeringly thing, does that mean we can be stupid? did you know she once called filene's basement [us clothing store] felini's basement. i'd love to see what was in felini's basement. did i mention i'm also drunk. i love you all.)

The etomology game is a fun one, perhaps with this particular strand of music more than others due to the fact that microhouse represents an implosion rather than an explosion. Which is not to say its creative horizon has narrowed - quite the opposite - but rather that most of the artists involved have come from such different directions, and it's only been over quite some time that they've come to be considered as part of the one "scene". So what's been interesting is how the terms used have become progressively vaguer ("microhouse" being the epitome of this) as they've had to expand to cope with the incoming traffic.

I like "crack-house", but only if it's posited as being the end of a certain spectrum (Perlon?), the other end of which is "smack- house" (eg. the post-Basic Channel woozy stuff you get on Kompakt).

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banging epic prog dance !!!!!!!!!!

fuck this track playing now is good ! it has weird spiral sounds and epic house trippy tip

what is it?

the album 'airdrawn dagger' flits between leftfield/orbital and er, mike oldfield, but its generally okay (if it had come out a year or two earlier than it had it wouldve done better and been more popular)

01. Mathew Dekay - Beautiful Monday
02. ID
03. Ulrich Schnauss - ID
04. Panoptic - Surface
05. ID
06. Maurice & Noble – Hoochie Koochie Man
07. Amber - Anyway (Steve Porter Remix 2)
08. Timo Maas - Unite
09. ID
10. P.Diddy feat. Kelis - Lets Get Ill (Deep Dish Remix)
11. ID
12. Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floors (Junkie Xl Dub)
13. Bjork - ID
14. ID
15. Junkie XL - Red Pill, Blue Pill (Main Mix)
16. Nirvana vs Adam Freeland - Smells Like Teen Sprit 2003
17. Sasha vs Underworld - Cowpander (Junkie XL Edit)

I'm listening to it right now, three minutes in - some of my favourite tracks of the moment to look forward to (Amber, Dave Gahan, Nirvana).

And re: Airdrawndagger - judging from the shitload of great Junkie XL remixes/singles (the prog ones, not the big beat ones) in the last few months, I've come to the conclusion that mr. Tom Holkenberg was responsible for all the good stuff there (Cloud Cuckoo et al).

Xpander report Sasha will release an album: Involver as part of the Global Underground compilation series.

This is an album of exclusively recorded remixes/ recreations by Sasha from other artists [Felix Da Housecat, Ulrich Schnauss, Grand National etc] tracks.

Sasha - Involver tracklisting

01 GRAND NATIONAL - TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES
02 SHPONGLE - DORSET PERCEPTION
03 PETTER - THESE DAYS
04 UNKLE - WHAT ARE YOU TO ME?
05 THE YOUNGSTERS - SMILE
06 SPOOKY - BELONG
07 UNKLE - IN A STATE
08 LOSTEP - BURMA
09 FELIX DA HOUSECAT - WATCHING CARS GO BY
10 ULRICH SCHNAUSS - ON MY OWN

Xpander also have a new interview with Sasha

Billboard report this album will be released on June 22nd [in the US] by Global Underground.

In the UK, Sasha - Involver has a release date of June 14th.

*i think*

Found my 2 disc Northern Exposure: Expeditions in a box and drove around listening to it for a couple days. It’s good! It prompted me to buy his Global Underground 13: Ibiza mix when I spotted it for 3 bux the other day and it’s probably even better for being a bit less trancey.

I don’t know what he’s up to these days; his old chum Digweed put out a four hour album several years ago which was vv good. Both these guys are better than Oakenfold as far as the trance Mt Rushmore types go, I listened to Tranceport recently and the cheese factor was wild.

i still have a lot of time for his 2cd set of remixes/film soundtrack.

https://www.discogs.com/release/1307527-Sasha-The-emFire-Collection-Mixed-Unmixed-Remixed

Didn’t know about this one, but the trance folks haven’t received much press post-GU glory days, they fell outta style twenty years ago. Tho I feel like there are so many artists inspired by that sound coming up now. The best of that bunch I’ve heard is Long Island Sound.