People

Disc one's the corker, a lattice of intricately layered trance tunes, heavily focused on subtle melody and minor swells. Fever's "Distorted Horizon" is a slinky little number, Replicant spins your head with the synth swells of "The Conspiracy," and the lone vocal number "Never Need to Worry" drops at just the right moment to make hearts swoon. These low-key selections tightly merge for a deeply satisfying mix, an exclamation for the power of understated music.

Disc two brings a welcome shift to uplifting, rhythmic dance more in line with what listeners to Perfecto sets would expect. The material here is a bit older, but captivating nonetheless. Paranoid Jack packs a happy hook and springy keyboard on "Good Luv," while "Echoes" shows a satisfying string breakdown and distinct vocals. Final kudos to the breakbeat dub of Blue Amazon "And Then the Rain Falls" and Circulation's delicate closer "Turquoise."


Pukka Progressive From The Other Side of The Big Pond   August 11, 2002
D. George (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

THE BOY DONE GOOD!

Earlier D-fuse compilations were patchy (to say the least), but this is definitely a step in the right direction. Disc 1 is a classy affair, containing tracks that the cooler clubs around the UK will have been playing for some time as a prelude to the usual dancefloor shenanigans. Disc 2 puts the pace up a notch and will bring a smile to the face of all the old-school Guerilla Records fans who have waited a LONG time for a pretender to the Throne. My only gripe is that the pitch could have been slightly faster, but hey, that's just being churlish.

This impressed me a lot, and when you hear the Ocean Wave Dub Mix of Blue Amazon's 'And Then The Rain Falls' at full volume, you'll know when you've been Tango'd. Buy it.

HEADS UP, PEOPLE!