Communicate

Sasha & John Digweed - Communicate

Communicate
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Artist: Sasha & John Digweed
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Music Label: Kinetic Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Like a Bitch
  2. Get Lost [Stereo Dub]
  3. Barbarella [Deep Dish Mix]
  4. Roaches [Peace Division Mix]
  5. Voices [Slacker's Dumb Struck Mix]
  6. Fusion
  7. Pushing Too Hard
  8. Musak [Wonderland Avenue Remix]
  9. West on 27th [A Tribe Called KHZ Mix]
  10. Tyrantanic [Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix]
  11. The Baguio Track [Digweed/Muir Bedrock Mix]
Music CD 2
  1. Narcotic
  2. The Blue Hour
  3. Voices [Freelance Icebreakers Mix]
  4. Once More
  5. E.C.I. P-S
  6. Waah! [Seismix]
  7. Force 51
  8. Ruhe
  9. Put Your Earphones On
  10. Enjoyed
  11. Lifestyles, Pt. 2

Free Music Notes for Communicate

Free Music Review: S&D at the peak of their prowess
Hit: 5 Stars

Before this mix was released, the sound of the underground was still progressing towards the deeper, darker, moodier direction we associate with it today. Mix CDs on the market didn't reflect this move all that well - until listeners were given a preview into the sound of the new millenium by 2 back-to-back classics - GU 013: Sasha in Ibiza & GU 014: Digweed in Hong Kong. These CDs did more to establish the new order of international DJ culture than anything else, and gave us a glimpse of what was to come. Then, the same 2 guys gave us Communicate.

More than any other album I know (I've never been able to get my hands on their legendary Renaissance set), Communicate defines what Sasha & Digweed represent in terms of soundscapes. It showcases 2 completely different yet perfectly complementary DJ styles, and IMHO, catches both of them at the peak of their abilities. Sasha simply condenses what he did with GU 013, adding a grittier texture to the spacey sound that is his trademark. Digweed... well, suffice to say that if all other works by John Digweed were lost in a fire, and I could choose 1 mix for preservation, I would pick this one in a heartbeat.

Disc 1 contains quite a few tracks that were familiar in the day - "West on 27th", "Roaches", "The Baguio Track"... all recognizable as some of the biggest tunes of that year. The beauty of this disc is in its programming & arrangement - the beautiful DD remix of Sven Vath's "Barbarella" is a ready example of what track placement can do to augment the overall mood of a CD. The ambient, spacey aural vibe of Sasha's sets is present, but is mixed in equal parts with gritty, grinding bass synths & straight, hard beats. The resulting cocktail is what happens when the man decides to tear up a dancefloor - groove oriented sound retaining signature style.

Disc 2 takes things to an altogether different plane. The brilliance of this mix lies in the fact that - while being the single darkest, moodiest, eeriest and most subterranean mix ever crafted by Digweed - it unearths and showcases such absolute purity of sound that 90% of these tracks sound cutting-edge even today (remember, this is a 2000 mix). "Narkotik" establishes the hypnotic vibe of this mix at the very beginning, "King of Spin" incorporates a wobbling, echoing synthline sounding like its coming straight at you inside a closed, pitch-black tunnel, "Voices" highlights what careful sampling can do to a track... each track contains something to rave about. The highlight of the disc for me was the stupendous mix into JVM's "ECI-PS" - 3 1/2 minutes?!?!?! That is the best single track-into-track mix I've ever heard, period. The mood is carried on seamlessly by another awe-inspiring mix into POB's "Waah!", and by the time the last, quivering strings of "Enjoyed" fade away into the silence, you're left completely speechless. This is NOT a CD you'll find yourself dancing to too much - you'll be too busy just letting the sound play around with your head while shutting yourself off from the rest of the world.

Today, I wouldn't consider Sasha & Digweed the 2 best DJs in the world. Their latest efforts, while good, aren't what I would call masterpieces. Maybe the sound has moved on, past what they represent - I don't know. But if you want to hear what they sounded like as partners in sonic crime in their hey-day... if you want to - 20 years on - look at a CD and know that it represents the absolute BEST of what was playing when it was released, then this is the one. Buy it, make a copy every year so that you have a mint-condition copy at any time. This album is a genuine, A+ work of art.

4 1/2 stars for Sasha. 5 for Digweed. Overall Verdict - 5 stars.

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