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Dive | Paradise Maybe
Smooth, poppy dance tracks without soul.
CD, Fudge Records/Fudge Records
Tekst: Theo Ploeg
Publicatiedatum: 31 mei 2002
A couple of years ago the British duo Fluke was quite successful with their commercial, smooth house music made up of controlled basses, controlled breaks, controlled vocals. Fluke was producers' music in every essence. But emotionally is was cold, soulless music. Music in which every tone was carefully designed to be non-disturbing. Dive is the Dutch Fluke. Although the bio states that Dive (Raymond Dreesen and René Lenting) are looking for an organic live sound, Paradise Maybe is the opposite. A carefully produced album. Every raw tone polished away. An album by real producers. The result is a very smooth sound without raw edges. And that is pity. Because Dive is able to write some good songs. Paradise Maybe is divided into a Blue Zone and a Red Zone. Blue stands for smooth poppy dance tracks, while Red is more dance floor-oriented. It is the Red Zone that holds some interesting tracks. Relaxed Fella, for instance, is a nice up-tempo breakbeat track with commercial vocals, while All Bompy mixes up-tempo beats with some slow distorted breaks at the end. Not bad at all, but nevertheless not smashing enough. The rest of the material on Paradise Maybe lacks tension, lacks roughness, lacks a soul. And that is essential for dance music.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/dive/paradise-maybe/1586/
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