Sasha and Digweed - Renaissance, The Mix Collection: C/D? (Search and Destroy at will)

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Just bought the remastered 10th anniversary edition and was curious what you lot thought of it.

The standout tracks to me so far (first listen) are: Bedrock Ft. KYO - "For What You Dream Of" and Virtualismo - "Mismoplastico."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I have Northern Exposure: Expeditions, that's all I know of Sasha and Digweed. I like it!

I had the Bedrock mix from '99, but no more.

(exhibit A!)

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

For being 10 years old, it still sounds great. It really is an essential edm document.

― Flash (cowboytrance), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

edm = emotional dance music?

I've always heard that the Renaissance and Expeditions mixes were the ones to get, so foolishly I only have Northern Exposures 1 and 2. But I love them so - they're so unashamedly new age!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Emo dance music! Surely this means the Postal Service.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

can't get enough of the renaissance mixes right now. in some ways, the fabric 20 mix achieves a nice rhyming effect with these, just in terms of taking in a wide generic scope that is still seamlessly mixed. it's that smoothness that i'm getting at -- sometimes i like mixes to be more jarring, but at other times i want that blissful effect that digweed's so good at conjuring.

― Martin Turenne, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah what I've heard of the Digweed mix sounds like he's using that whole post-microhouse/Kompakt/electro/intelligent-prog interzone to recreate the sort of sliding panoramic effect that he and Sasha used to do so well before the greyscale prog of 99-03 took over.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 24 February 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

and for that, tim, you get an OTM

― Martin Turenne, Thursday, 24 February 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

That Virtualmismo track was excellent! this thread is making me flash back to listening to this cd at endless after parties in the mid 90s....

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

I do reckon, though, that Sasha and Digweed were always better for home listening than for actual dancing...

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

the genre should be called "cleaning house"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Expeditions is one of my all time favorite mixes.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

"Expeditions is one of my all time favorite mixes."

Please elaborate.

― Martin Turenne, Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

sounds great!

― Martin Turenne, Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Haha, kidding. For me, it's got this timeless archetypical "rave" quality. Like it could have come from anywhere between 1989 and today. It's futuristic, mysterious, otherworldly and doesn't really reference anything beyond techno and house. I don't listen to it and dismiss it as "trance" or "progressive" or "tribal" or whatever. It just always makes me think of being at a rave surrounded by laser beams and techno-logy. I'm sure this kind of dance music par excellence is very different for people that arrived at different times or places.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

yeah, tim talks about about that sliding panaromic effect -- it's the colours, isn't it? when i turn on the renaissance mixes, it's like i'm stepping inside a kaleidoscope, the music kind of twisting around me and morphing ever so slowly with each passing measure. part of me thinks i should be ashamed for saying so (it says: cheeseball!) but that's the part of me i'm trying to stamp out.

― Martin Turenne, Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Stamp Out Shame in Our Lifetime!

Also, I think one track samples William Shatner.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Does it?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, when you hear a man say "Negative" in the Space Manoeuvres track.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

listening to this (for the first time) now...

I was expecting the mixing to be more fun! and the beats are awfully bland so far. I'd prefer good but dated beats to a lack of any kind of percussive interest.

It's okay (I'll plough through all 3 in time) but I also feel like I could have just turned on Radio 1 any weekend since it came out for more of the same. Maybe that's a measure of it's influence. I dunno... will keep listening but there's no even small revelations so far dissapointingly.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's not offensive though it's o-kay so far.

But I'm getting sort of desperate for a decent harsh scraping acid line or some drums that actually thump (house or techno) 2/3 of the way in :(

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

zZZzZZZZ

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm... Third disc seems much nicer somehow.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

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