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Artist : VA Ripdate : Jun-2011
Title : Panorama Bar 03 - Mixed By Prosumer Source : CDDA
Label : Ostgut Ton Type : Compilation
Catnr : OSTGUTCD17 Tracks : 01
Year : 2011 Size : 115,7 MB
Genre : Electronic Encoder : LAME 3.98.4
Style : Deep House, House Quality : VBR -V0
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01 Steffi - Sadness 04:16
02 DJ Duke - Heard 04:05
03 Hunee - A Leaf For Hand In Hand 05:01
04 Soundso - Untitled 04:43
05 Theo Parrish - Twin Cities 05:17
06 Morgan Geist - Current 04:01
07 Romanthony - The House O' God 03:01
08 Circulation - Sincerely (Creation Mix) 04:35
09 Lil Silva - Pulse Vs. Flex 02:19
10 Soundstore - Take U 04:30
11 J.T. Melody Presents Tina Renee - Prove It (Instrumental) 02:53
12 Fingers Inc. - Music Take Me Up 04:03
13 Oracy - Bass Mood 04:46
14 i - L.T.B.C.Y.B. 01:15
15 T.S.O.S - Over And Over 04:54
16 Servo Unique - Let's Swing It 03:08
17 QX-1 - Love Injection (Inject Me Love Mixx) 03:50
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If you've heard any set from Panorama Bar resident Prosumer from the past few
years, you should know what to expect from his entry into the club's mix series.
But while there are no surprise appearances from Janet Jackson, there are
surprises nonetheless (funky-grime figure Lil Silva, for one). The last few
entries in the Ostgut mix series have been packed to the gills with exclusives,
something which doesn't quite mesh with Prosumer's timeless house selections.
Even so, they turn out to be some of the best moments. It's difficult to imagine
a more appropriate starting point, for example, than Steffi's frail lament
"Sadness," which flickers with a candle-lit beat over soft-rock chords before it
solidifies into DJ Duke's compatibly ghostly "Heard." The other two exclusives
collected on a separate 12-inch are equally fine, from the lush piano/synth
interplay of Hunee's "A Leaf for Hand in Hand" to Soundstore's wiry and
overdriven "Take U."
As you would expect, the mix builds expertly. The blends might be a bit faster
than usual, but you get the sense that Prosumer simply had a lot of material he
wanted to fit in. His sense of ebb and flow is unparalleled as the chug of
Soundso's untitled contribution grinds to a halt with Theo Parrish's jerky "Twin
Cities" before the mix picks itself back up with Morgan Geist's bouncy
night-drive "Current." Things really blast off with the disco sugar rush of
Circulation's "Sincerely." But it's that damned Lil Silva track; it just swoops
right in, disrupts the groove and makes a general ass of itself with electrified
drums and wailing sirens. It's lovably irreverent but obnoxious all the same,
and Brandenburg loads the second half of the mix with jacking house jams as if
to compensate for the brief indiscretion. The disc finally peaks with the
strange transition of Fingers' Inc classic "Music Take Me Up" into the
autotrophic growth of low-end scum on Oracy's "Bass Mood," and finally settles
down with a remix of QX-1's inimitable "Love Injection".
Panoramabar 03 is a bit of an oddity in that, like Numbers mastermind
Jackmaster's recent Fabriclive entry, there's nothing particularly new or
earth-shattering, no grand narrative to make its release some sort of momentous
event. But over the course of an hour and change, Prosumer makes these disparate
tracks sound like they belong together, and the mix quickly becomes its own
whole held together by adhesive as strong as any proper album. To reduce it even
further, it's just a joy to listen to. I don't think a DJ mix can get much
stronger than that.
URL: http://www.discogs.com/release/2860851
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