Artist.......: VA
Album........: Fabrice Lig The Story Of A Musical Puzzle
Label........: MINIMAXIMA
Genre........: Techno
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: CDDA
Rip.date.....: Oct-14-2006
Str.date.....: Nov-07-2005
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. fabrice lig - intro - into the puzzle box 01:48
02. fabrice lig - your first piece 01:40
03. fabrice lig - swing swords 05:39
04. soul designer - tech do brazil 05:54
05. titonton duvante & fabrice lig - even deeper 06:18
06. fabrice lig - deep technique 01:32
07. frederic galliano and the african divas - 05:26
woualai (soul designer rework)
08. fabrice lig - my 4 stars (vocal) 03:51
09. fabrice lig - thru your soul 04:14
10. fabrice lig - the big box 01:13
11. moody prechers - that bass in my head 07:55
(fabrice lig remix)
12. south union - icarus 05:10
13. interwaves - deep wave 06:02
14. fabrice lig - spend hours on 00:57
15. fabrice lig - the purple piece 00:46
16. fabrice lig - meet u in brooklyn 07:51
17. bug orchestra - justice 06:22
18. fabrice lig - outro - next box 01:23
Runtime 74:01 min
Size 90,6 MB
Release Notes:
Fabrice Lig is considered by his peers & techno fans
around the globe as a world class producer. He is well
known for his particularly funky use of Roland?s sh101
analog synth, and for his emotional melodies and harmonies
that straddle the confines of techno and house. ?The Story
of a Musical Puzzle? is a snapshot of Fabrice?s musical
journey so far. From his Soul Designer guise to his early
Bug Orchestra releases and some classic remixes, Fabrice
Lig has provided us with plenty of dancefloor dynamite
over the years. This is a chance to catch up with the man
at the peak of his powers.
There is no doubt that after more than 10 years of
teaching himself the production processes and complex midi
programming, Fabrice?s sound is unique and recognisable
among the thousands of weekly techno releases.
Demonstrations of these skills appear on the cr?me de la
cr?me of techno labels such as KMS (Kevin Saunderson) &
7th City Records (Dan Bell) from Detroit, F-Communications
(Laurent Garnier) from Paris, Raygun Records from Hamburg,
Playhouse Records from Offenbach and most recently on the
Berlin-based label, Kanzleramt (Heiko Laux).
It was in 1988 that Fabrice was touched by his first dance
music thunderbolt - ?I was 15, on the dance floor of a
Belgian club, when I heard Big Fun by Kevin Sauderson?s
Innercity project. It was a shock, I?d never felt such an
overpowering emotion before. The day after, a friend who
used to work for a radio station told me that it was
called techno music. It was my first contact with Detroit
electronic music?.
By the end of 1998, after his first DJ and production
experiences, under the Interwaves and Bug Orchestra
nicknames, Fabrice was elevated to the ranks of the
Detroit musical elite by Mad Mike himself, thanks to his
classic remix of E-Dancer?s Banjo track on KMS: ?Fabrice
is a part of Detroit music's history by being the first
white producer to record on KMS, and the first double
groove recording from NSC?.
Since then, Fabrice?s career regularly draws the attention
of the international techno community, thanks to a series
of critically acclaimed releases: From his classic
?Justice?, ?Escape from Nowhere? or ?Galapagos? tracks on
Raygun Records to the ?Even Deeper EP? with his peer
Titonton Duvant? on Detroit?s 7th City Records and the
?Greed? remix for Laurent Garnier to his acclaimed first
album for his Soul Designer project on F-Communications
and dozens of other productions and remixes, Fabrice has
built a solid discography and reputation, confirmed by his
reknowned appearances at the world?s best clubs & festival
line ups. (Fabric - London, Fuse - Brussels, Loft -
Barcelona, Sub Club - Glasgow, The End - London, Famous
Respect! Parisian parties, Sonar Festival, Montreux Jazz
Festival, Bourges festival (on stage with Jean-Michel
Jarre), plus tours in the US, Canada, Japan and the whole
of Asia).
"The Story of a Musical Puzzle" is a musical journey into
the world of Fabrice's masterstroke audio creation. Here
you will find tracks that have made his sound?s trademark
over the years, along with fresh cuts nicely fused up and
updated. Call him a Sound Designer if you wish (thats what
F-Com calls him!)
Vocal tracks, hard techno, melodic techno, even ambient
coolness - its all here for your listening pleasure.
De uit Wallonniδ afkomstige Fabrice Lig werd ooit door Mad
Mike van Underground Resistance uitgeroepen tot deel van
het Detroit techno-erfgoed. Je hoort maar al te goed
waarom als je deze retrospectieve van Æs mans betere werk
tot je neemt. Want Lig ademt en zweet Detroit techno alsof
hij er geboren is. Met een vocaal nummer als æMy 4 StarsÆ
steekt hij Mad Mike zelfs naar de kroon. Voor de rest
krijg je hier een mooi overzicht van Ligs producties voor
F Comm (het label dat hem ontdekt heeft), zijn remixes
voor Moody Preachers en Frederic Galliano en een
samenwerking met Titonton Duvante.
Hoe dan ook merk je geen moment dat deze Belg
daadwerkelijk uit Belgiδ komt, want de meeste nummers
klinken alsof ze recht uit Detroit komen en zijn eerder
verwant met het werk van Carl Craig, Red Planet, Kevin
Saunderson en andere Amerikaanse producers dan met enige
Europese elektronische muziekstijl. Dat hij van Metro Area
houdt merk je dan weer goed op æMeet U in BrooklynÆ.
Fabrice Lig heeft smaak en weet dat te vertalen in
uitstekende muziek met respect voor de traditie.