Earlier, when I was still a little lowbrow Stöppsel strong penchant for British dance music and me regularly with the Chemical Brothers, Orbital and co (and Prodigy) have blown away, I was simply impressed. Why I did not, but the intensity of the beats and the immense bass foundations in, for example, "Smack My Bitch Up" and "Breathe" have my little 15-year-old brain so marked that I until today, 10 years later, this plate on the No.1 of my personal all-time favorite look.
One reason is that in my ears very intelligent production.
The music works perfectly in clubs - Bass, Beats, synths and samples still rocking every Club limiter to its knees, but can also build the other levels of the music atmospheres were (- and this is rare for this style of music -) considered and treated: In "Narayan" eg permanently fly small textures quietly left and right on a past while coloring the atmosphere in the background quietly surfaces and slide bizarre bandpass loops to track subtle progress.
Everything is mixed very tasty and the strong emphasis on the bass does the plate very well, because the rough SP 1200 hip-hop beats supple sit on (especially the bass drum merges almost with the wide and warm bass) and zerrig / Crispen HiHats and co -obgleich really strong verzerrt- never indifferenziert in some tracks or sound mushy.
To pronounce it clearly, my main arguments for this disc are the attention to detail that in similar shooting ends pieces do not exist so normally, the great samples, sometimes very dubious and mystical sound ("Narayan", "Mind Fields"), the next for 10 years future-proof and grossly fat beats and the unspeakably good mix.
As I hear, the good Liam Howlett most of the pieces mixed at home in his studio rather than to drive in's expensive Strongroom and as everything to make front to end - respect.
The sound is unmatched to this day and is considered hard to reach a benchmark against which engineers who even remotely to do with electronic drums and basses.
Clear 6 out of 5 stars.
