2008-09-06

Model 500 - Starlight (2008)


Artist : Model 500
Album : Starlight
Label : echospace [detroit]
Cat.No : echospace 313-2
Rip Date : Aug-19-2008
Style : Electronic
Source : CDDA
Quality : VBRkbps
Size : 111,4 mB

TRACK LISTING:

01. Starlight [M 69 Original Mix] "06:19
02. Starlight [Deepchord Mix] "12:15
03. Starlight [Echospace Unreleased Mix] "07:10
04. Starlight [Soultek's Falling Stars Mix] "05:13
05. Starlight [Convextion Remix] "08:54
06. Starlight [Mike Huckaby's S Y N T H Mix] "08:04
07. Starlight [Echospace Dub] "03:24
08. Starlight [Sean Deason's Psykofuk Mix] "08:06
09. Starlight [Phase90 Reshape] "11:55
10. Starlight [Intrusion Dub] "08:31


:: i N F O ::

When Juan Atkins first released "Starlight" back in 1995 it came
as a bit of a shock - here was one of the most emotive, memorable
and spacious techno tracks ever written. Flip that hallowed twelve
over and you'd find the story got a whole lot better - with
Maurizio offering up one of his lesser known but deeply inspired
remixes, a track that in the years that have passed has truly
become part of techno folklore. Fast forward 12 years later and
you find yourself with this deeply impressive doublepack, headed
by the original version of "Starlight" (seriously - every home
should own a copy of this track - and we totally mean that) and a
set of remixes from the dub techno scene's most important
characters : Deepchord, Convextion, Soultek and Echospace. Of
course remixing such an iconic, flawless track is in some ways a
thankless task, but the results here often verge on the
inspirational, particularly on the towering Deepchord Mix that
somehow manages to distil the foreboding calm of the original and
inject it with staggered BASS menace that stretches itself over 12
minutes of total bliss. Convextion, meanwhile, opts for an
unexpected turn with a track that's best described as spiritually
connected to Kompakt's Schaffel templates, a stomping reduction
that will come as a welcome surprise to all you obsessives out
there studying this guy's every move. Steve Hitchell propels the
track into a midnight electro blueprint in widescreen - the
seminal chords of the original forming the emotive core of the
track while a lilting piano line weaves in and out of the crisp
percussion, while the twin Echospace excursions emerge from deep
in Modell and Hitchell's analogue studio - with one track
constructing an ambient haven out of the original, while the
latter ends us off with the most upfront, padded techno track on
board.

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