28 oktober 2013

JULIE MCKNIGHT - Home (Knee Deep Club mix)

























At first I thought this was just another cheesy house track with lyrics that you've heard a thousand times before, but I was wrong. Julie McKnight is actually singing something that has meaning, she's not repeating the same three lines for over eight minutes. Knee Deep added a great piano riff. I love the cheerful touch the track gets because of that. 

There's so many tracks with lyrics that just try to hard and claim to be something in a cheesy way with cheap lyrics. Tracks like that just don't convince me but this one does. I just can't stop singing when it's on.

27 oktober 2013

MAX COOPER Live at ADE 19.10.13

o.bservers - Lily Clark

You never know what you might expect from Max Cooper a.k.a. King of the electronic jungle. He's been breaking boundaries the minute he stepped into the electronic music scene and his sound is at the verge of what people are accustomed to.

I saw him play at Amsterdam Dance Event last week and I thought Max was going to give us a set filled with electronic bangers and make us break the house down. Instead, his set was more focussed on the experience and feeling his music rather then dancing to it and I loved it. You really never know what you might expect from Cooper but it's always something special. 


GABRIEL ANANDA - Let It In Let It Out

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I saw Gabriel Ananda live last week at Amsterdam Dance Event and he really surprised me, in a positive way. He played a liveset for one and a half hours which contained so many amazing tracks and "Let It In Let It Out" is one of them.

The dreamy synthesizers fly all over the place and the bassline is solid. But that short, powerful and most of all unexpected solo in the end did it  for me. Certainly when Gabriel played it live with crazy volume. It's just beautiful.