Title: Ethereal Tubes EP
Artist: Baldo
Label: E Beamz
Cat Number: E-BEAMZ042
Genre: Techno
1: Dreams Of Glass
2: Ethereal Tubes
3: Ex Machina (Trance Mix)
4: Ex Machina (Power House Mix)
5: Drive
This release from Baldo, whose “pedigree within the European electronic music community cannot be under stated.” Is a collection of rampant floor fillers which are implicitly garnished with bleakness and uncertainty. This may not be apparent when dancing under its pervasive influence, but all is not sweetness and light here, and a feeling of being slightly out of kilter with reality is difficult to shake. In other words it’s druggy, like a lot of the best dance music is. Choosing favourites is hard as this is strong across the board, but I am quite partial to the vintage underground garage grooves of ‘Drive’, as well as those of the title track. These two tracks are trancier than the Trance Mix of ‘ Ex Machina’ which is a little cliched compared to the superior Power House Mix. ‘Dreams Of Glass’ is break beat defined and, as such, is ok. The housier stuff pushes this release in all the right directions though.
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