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Luke Slater | FEAR AND LOATHING

CD, React

Tekst: da volgaBabe

Publicatiedatum: 01 november 2001

A double mixed CD by Luke Slater: Those who have experienced a live DJ-set by the man will know that - apart from genuine phenomenon Dave Clarke - there isn't a DJ on this planet who more aptly deserves the epithet Lord Of Techno. Running parallel to his immaculately produced, yet insanely intense, releases as Planetary Assault Systems on Peacefrog, his sets are ripping hard and brutal in the true sense of that word, always building from noisy to noisier to Übernoise. Yet he has always managed to comprise quality and party feeling in one neat package. Disc one does nothing more than reflect the banging aspect of the man's DJ personality. And so, from the very start, we get very loopy and very uptempo stuff from acknowledged slam masters like Adam Beyer, Ben Sims, Ben Long, James Ruskin, Regis, and, of course, from Luke himself (with no less than five contributions). But there's also room for upcoming talents like Oxia, Chris Cowie, or Marco Bailey, people that succeed in smuggling in the desperately needed funk that seems to have been lost during techno's growing-up-in-public in the last few years. Nevertheless a mix that leaves you gasping for breath for some time. Disc two - praise da Lord! - is a little bit more of a mixed bag. Kicking off with the DHS classic 'The House of God', unfolding with minimal techno, it slowly starts taking detours into breaks and electro (BLIM & Rennie Pilgrem!, FC Kahuna!, our favorite madman Si Begg), Detroit Tech of past and present (Dbx and plenty of Jeff Mills’ meditative, zen-like works), curiosity techno like The Youngsters (of F-Comm fame), and tech-house (Mr. G and DJ Remy). But what we like most about the whole package is that Luke - like that other personification of Underground Techno, DJ Hell - isn't afraid to show off his imperfections and leaves a few mixing mistakes forever committed to CD. What we call an honest man, and that alone makes him stand out compared to the overcrowd of far-too-perfect-to-be-true DJ-mix compilations. You don't have to like it, but this is Techno with a capital T.

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