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Circulation are the co-architects of the tech-house sound. Through their by now well over 20 colour-coded releases they've come to design and refine a niche in the amalgam of styles that is today's world of beats that's theirs and truly theirs alone: an oasis of melancholic elation enhanced by powerful rhythm sections akin to trance, techno as well as deep house in the stampede that is today's technosound. And this compilation in the Abstract funk Theory series, where they step in the tracks of Kirk Degorgio, Ian O'Brien and Mixmaster Morris, is another unmistakable topper and at ease the best episode in the series. It's full of warm, emotional, most of the time pretty trancy - in the good sense of that often mistreated word- deep house and techno and after having ploughed through the triple vinyl version -containing two extra gems- I came to the frightening conclusion that there isn't one single track on it that approaches bleakness or boredom by a lightyear, an increasing rarity in the compilation sector, to say the least.
Of course it features a brand new Circulation, for once 'Uncoloured', and obviously most tracks are in that typical Circulation vein of deep atmospheres and sparse vocal samples combined with 80s-style basslines and synths and a trancy track build-up. The boys themselves also feature their own solo-projects. Davis' Motor Funk, his project with Justin Drake from Peace Division can be described as funky trancedisco -if such a thing should exist-, while Jackson's Subtech goes Circulation-light. Further awesome contributions include such distinct folk like Aubrey, Finnish wonderboy Jori Hulkkonen, mister tech-house himself Bushwacka!, Mantis' At Jazz, Touché's P.I.M.P. and Carl Craig, a man who made tech-house 10 years before such a term ever was coined, with a track from his SSR-album. But by far the greatest discovery are the three featured electrotracks. 2020 Vision's Carl Finlow provides two under two different monikers, Voice Stealer and Random Factor, the latter with the veeeery 80s 'Broken Mirror'. If there was anything like a best track on it it would be the enticingly soothing, almost Balearic acid electro of The Timewriter's 'Lost in Lyrix', but there isn't one single note that's misplaced on this polished mastercompilation. These guys must have the best track choice I've heard in quite a while. Heavenly music for now people and obligatory as hell.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/circulation/present-abstract-funk-theory/684/
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