Various Artists / Steve Lawler: Lights O
| Album: | Steve Lawler: Lights O | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jul 2002 | |
| Label: | Global Underground Record | |||
Album Review
Jacki-O
Reviewed 2002-08-14
Reviewed 2002-08-14
COLL: Steve Lawler: Lights Out Label: Global Underground
Yet another in a series of progressive-trance-house comp/mix-CDs. I don’t care for trance, and most of the tracks are pretty boring with little originality in the productions – they are all formulaic (beats, synth swirls, robo-voices male reverbed, ethereal fem voices reverbed, unoriginal conga use). CD 2 is really tired shit. CD 1 has a couple of interesting tracks that verge on 80s industrial and electro.
On CD 1: 5,10,14,15. On CD 2: 5.
CD 1: Features tech-y trance/industrial/retro/new-wave & lots of robo-vocals
1. crazy noise swirls & huge electronic boom
2. stripped down beats & congas, dark robo-vocals
3. kind of industrial-y clang-y w/ lots of percussive effects
4. circuit-trance-y w/ all sorts of mech-y effects & cheesy vocal sample
5. thumpy! bangin' beats workin' it w/ distorted bassline - cool
6. big trance-like druggy shit w/ really tired preacher cliche ("I see the light")
7. raver-electro-pop - really tired cheesy shit
8. Euro-industrial-retro-wave-pop w/ German female vocals & grindy bass
9. short industrial-80s vocal break/interlude
10. retro - totally 80s synths, just like a Depeche Mode song I once heard
11. progressive-tech trance w/ male robo-vocals & big synths
12. more tech-y new-wave w/ female robo-vocals in Spanish
13. big epic synth buildup - typical progressive trance stuff
14. driving bassline & tech-y trance - cool warbling synth loop
15. big echo-y female vocals, breakbeats, then into pumpin' pop-trance track
CD 2: Starts tribal-y-trance and gets into very ordinary synth-prog-trance
1. warbly electronics & vocals
2. tribal-y trance w/ echo-y Spanish female vocals
3. more echo-y vocals w/ big swishy synths swirls & effects
4. slammy tribal-y beats & Italian female vocal sample saying “sexo”
5. funky bassline, tribal-congas, echo-y spoken word about Harlem streets
6. big huge synth buildups & swirly female vocals – epic trance
7. lots of tribal percussive layers w/ some swirly vocal & loopy synths
8. more crazy conga action & some goofy sample
9. techy analog bass drone builds up into epic trance sounds
10. analog bass loop w/ some big swirls & cymbal crashes
11. hard crunching beats, sinister synths, & looped vocal sample
12. male robo-vocal “orgasm” & female porno moans
13. boring… this track is not “house muzik” as titled – just swirls & beats
Yet another in a series of progressive-trance-house comp/mix-CDs. I don’t care for trance, and most of the tracks are pretty boring with little originality in the productions – they are all formulaic (beats, synth swirls, robo-voices male reverbed, ethereal fem voices reverbed, unoriginal conga use). CD 2 is really tired shit. CD 1 has a couple of interesting tracks that verge on 80s industrial and electro.
On CD 1: 5,10,14,15. On CD 2: 5.
CD 1: Features tech-y trance/industrial/retro/new-wave & lots of robo-vocals
1. crazy noise swirls & huge electronic boom
2. stripped down beats & congas, dark robo-vocals
3. kind of industrial-y clang-y w/ lots of percussive effects
4. circuit-trance-y w/ all sorts of mech-y effects & cheesy vocal sample
5. thumpy! bangin' beats workin' it w/ distorted bassline - cool
6. big trance-like druggy shit w/ really tired preacher cliche ("I see the light")
7. raver-electro-pop - really tired cheesy shit
8. Euro-industrial-retro-wave-pop w/ German female vocals & grindy bass
9. short industrial-80s vocal break/interlude
10. retro - totally 80s synths, just like a Depeche Mode song I once heard
11. progressive-tech trance w/ male robo-vocals & big synths
12. more tech-y new-wave w/ female robo-vocals in Spanish
13. big epic synth buildup - typical progressive trance stuff
14. driving bassline & tech-y trance - cool warbling synth loop
15. big echo-y female vocals, breakbeats, then into pumpin' pop-trance track
CD 2: Starts tribal-y-trance and gets into very ordinary synth-prog-trance
1. warbly electronics & vocals
2. tribal-y trance w/ echo-y Spanish female vocals
3. more echo-y vocals w/ big swishy synths swirls & effects
4. slammy tribal-y beats & Italian female vocal sample saying “sexo”
5. funky bassline, tribal-congas, echo-y spoken word about Harlem streets
6. big huge synth buildups & swirly female vocals – epic trance
7. lots of tribal percussive layers w/ some swirly vocal & loopy synths
8. more crazy conga action & some goofy sample
9. techy analog bass drone builds up into epic trance sounds
10. analog bass loop w/ some big swirls & cymbal crashes
11. hard crunching beats, sinister synths, & looped vocal sample
12. male robo-vocal “orgasm” & female porno moans
13. boring… this track is not “house muzik” as titled – just swirls & beats
Track Listing
| Artist | Track Name | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lights Out | Intro F/Vaule | ||
| 2. | Union | Technological Aspects | ||
| 3. | Mode, Daniel | Music Pressure | ||
| 4. | Pimp | The Light | ||
| 5. | Ciafone, John | Thunder | ||
| 6. | Desert | I See the Light | ||
| 7. | Rhythm Gangsta | The Crowd Song | ||
| 8. | Crossover | Photographt | ||
| 9. | Dirty Waltzer | By Soul of Man | ||
| 10. | Psycho Radio | In the Underground | ||
| 11. | Hardon | Brighton Project | ||
| 12. | Dr. Kucho and Wally Lopez | La Luna | ||
| 13. | Noize Gate | Bang the Drum | ||
| 14. | Duality | Static | ||
| 15. | Canteen | Everyone | ||
| 16. | Lights Out | Intro Feat. Helena Barber | ||
| 17. | Shmuel and Baranes | Spanish Tales | ||
| 18. | Sam-U-L | General | ||
| 19. | Ultra Fine | Kasso | ||
| 20. | Frank O Moiraghi and Mr. Mike | Harlem Shuffle | ||
| 21. | Paranoid Jack | Dirty Fingernails | ||
| 22. | J & S | Sunrise | ||
| 23. | Lawler, Steve | Andante | ||
| 24. | Swain and Snell | Electro Track | ||
| 25. | Fisher, Cevin | Let's Get It Together | ||
| 26. | Subliminal | Orgasm | ||
| 27. | Angelo Kortez Feat. Alan T. | Houze Musik |