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| aRTiST : Mark Grant |
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| tiTLE : Sound Design v2.0 |
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| lABEL : OM Records |
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| cAT-nR : OM 084 VLP |
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| sOURCE : Vinyl |
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| tRACKS : 10 :
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| siZE : 112,3 MB :
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: sTR-dATE : 2001 |
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: qUALiTY : VBRK/44.1K/Joint-Stereo |
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| eNCODER : Lame 3.90.3 (VBR) |
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| gENRE : House |
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| sUB-gENRE: Deep House, Latin |
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| 01 Inland Knights - Feel This Way 05:56 |
| (Home And Garden Mix) |
| 02 Milton Jackson - Can't Give You Up 06:59 |
| 03 Trüby Trio - Carajillo 06:24 |
| 04 Freak Sensation - Kickflip 06:55 |
| 05 Le Grande Boofont - Bacon Mohican (Caliman Remix) 06:49 |
| 06 Jerome Sydenham And Kerri Chandler - Deconstructed 06:58 |
| House (Phase 1) |
| 07 Agora - Jam Beneath The Groove 06:09 |
| 08 The Pasadenas - Round And Round (MAW Remix) 08:27 |
| 09 Osunlade - Tree Of Life 05:34 |
| 10 Chi Chi Peralta - Un Dia Mas 12:54 |
| (Matt's II Deep Allstar Mix) |
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| `-------> t.r.a.c.k.i.n.f.o <-) |
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| In Chicago, the birthplace of house music, to establish your |
| joint as one of the city's best house clubs is no small feat. But |
| to do it for six years running, and on a Monday night, is |
| downright unbelievable. That's what Mark Grant has achieved with |
| his Red Dog club -- it's the place in the Windy City for |
| househeads to lose themselves in a sweaty dancefloor reverie, and |
| Grant, as resident, has established himself as Chicago's main man |
| for marathon sets of booty-shaking, hands-in-the-air |
| groovaliciousness. |
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| How does all this translate to CD? Well, a double disc probably |
| would have allowed Grant a little more room to flash his full |
| sonic palette, but overall, Sound Design Vol. 2, his debut on San |
| Francisco's excellent Om Records, is a pretty impressive |
| achievement. Over the course of 16 tracks and 74 minutes, Grant |
| takes his listeners on a journey through an amazing array of |
| house styles -- old-school soulful, jazzy, funky, Latin and |
| tribal. The conflicting styles occasionally clash, and not every |
| track is a winner, but for most of the way Grant holds it all |
| together with great energy and some truly kick-ass mixing skills. |
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| Grant starts things off hard with the aggressive |
| four-on-the-floor beat of Kaskade's "What I Say", a jazzy but |
| classically soulful piece of Chicago-style house with great |
| vocals courtesy of Rob Wannamaker. It's a smart opening track, |
| smooth but irresistibly danceable, but Grant then makes the |
| mistake of layering in too many intrusive spoken vocals early on |
| -- a soul-shoutin' preacher on top of Le Grande Boofant's "Bacon |
| Mohican", some identity politics blather on Mood II Swing's "Do |
| It Your Way". C'mon, Mark, it's only track two -- we're still |
| getting' into our groove here! Save the politics for later in the |
| set. |
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| Things start looking up on track four, a combination of Inland |
| Knight's jazzy "Feel This Way" and the wonderful funky soul |
| harmonies of Artist formerly known as Technique's "Clear". For |
| the next few tracks Grant hopscotches around various styles, not |
| really taking us anywhere but displaying more of his impeccable |
| mixing skills. Grant habitually spins on three turntables, and it |
| shows on Sound Design -- sounds that you thought had long since |
| left the mix creep back in again, beats collide and layer in |
| unexpected ways, long segues build and build and finally release |
| into sparse breakdowns, before a new beat kicks in and propels |
| your feet into another set of dance steps. It's rare in the world |
| of vocal-based house to hear mixing this creative -- hopefully a |
| lot of fledgling house DJs will take inspiration from Sound |
| Design and learn to do more than just match their beats. |
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| Sound Design really takes off with track seven, a layering of the |
| horn lines from A Man Called Adam's "QuΘ Tal America" and the |
| hard-driving congas and drums of Atmosfear's "Dancing in Outer |
| Space". From this mostly acoustic launching pad, Grant goes on an |
| inspired tear through one great track after another, mixing them |
| flawlessly into an irresistibly ass-shaking segment. Milton |
| Jackson's Latin-tinged "Can't Give You Up" dissolves into the |
| more full-blown Brazilian vibe of "Deconstructed House (Phase |
| 1)", a giddy Jerome Sydenham and Kerri Chandler track carried by |
| the breezy guitar and vocals of Jania and some goofy |
| monkey/talking drum sounds courtesy of Dennis Ferrer. Agora's |
| "Jam Beneath the Groove" keeps the vibe alive with more Latin |
| percussion folded into a juicy deep house groove, and from there |
| Grant segues seamlessly into the jazzier terrain of M Trax's |
| "Trip Chick". Together, these five tracks make for a fantastic |
| ride. |
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| If Grant's track selection were this strong throughout, Sound |
| Design would be a masterpiece. Unfortunately, most of the latter |
| part of Sound Design bogs down in songs that not even Grant's |
| skills can stitch together in any sensible fashion. "Carajillo" |
| is a typically interesting experiment in |
| Afro-Caribbean-jazz-house fusion from Germany's brilliant Truby |
| Trio, but it's out of place here, especially when it's followed |
| up by the cheesy sax-and-diva R&B of Eddy and Dus' "Starlite". |
| Chichi Peralta's "Un Dφa Mßs" and Osunlade's "Tree of Life" don't |
| really belong here either -- they're unremarkable Latin and |
| Afro-pop tunes, respectively, that tack on a house beat as a |
| substitute for any real energy. Grant's closing track, the |
| Pasadenas' "Round and Round", is more like it, a shamelessly |
| disco-tinged, soulful number that ends things on a silly but |
| grin-inducing note. Ultimately, I can forgive Grant his |
| occasionally dubious track selection -- any DJ this talented is |
| inevitably going to push the envelope, and for most of Sound |
| Design that adventurous spirit pays off. No wonder Red Dog still |
| packs them in on Monday nights. |
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| This is the UNMIXED LP. Enjoy! |
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| http://www.om-records.com/ |
| http://www.discogs.com/release/26413 |
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