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Human Blue - Carpe Diem / Intercity

 

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Artist: Human Blue

Title: Carpe Diem / Intercity

Label: Spiral Trax

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. Carpe Diem

02. Intercity

 

Review:

 

Human Blue (Dag Wallin) hasn´t released anything for quite a while on

Spiral Trax but now it seems like things are moving again. An album is

on the way later this year and it´s going to be called "Electric

Roundabout". According to the Spiral Trax website:

http://www.spiraltrax.com/ is the album going to sound similar to this

ep. This is trance not too easy to describe. At first I was about to

give this ep a (4/10) or (5/10) but it has grown on me... A LOT! so now

I´m glad that I didn´t review it as soon as I got it! Some of you might

have understood that I´m mainly into heavier darker stuff, and this

release should be so very wrong for me, but the more I listen to it...

well it´s getting better all the time. For the last couple of hours I´ve

been listening to this ep over and over again. Try to pick out some of

your records that "survive" being played over and over again for several

hours!!! You won´t find so many, I can promiss you that. How does this

ep sound like then? Both tracks are pretty slow and harmonic. Smoth

melodylines and warm sounds with a lot of atmosphere. If you liked the

album "2001" by S-Range this is something for you, and I have to say

that this ep doesn´t sound very much like anything Human Blue has

released before (that I´ve heard). This is smoother and a lot warmer

with some tech-house elements brilliantly combined with traditional

morningfriendly psytrance. If someone would play this when I´m on the

dancefloor... well, then it´s a yawner but it works really good at home.

"Carpe Diem" (9/10) and "Intercity" (9/10) are two similar tracks but

also very different. Both tracks have this warm smooth groove with a

touch of sadness. The intensity grows all the time but very very slowly

so you can´t compare these two tracks to the stuff I usually give high

remarks. This music is created with a lot of layers on top of each

other. Both tracks has this awesome flow that´s forcing you to listen

just one more time... and you won´t get bored! I thought that this was

crap the first couple of times I listened to it so it might be difficult

to appreciate after just one go? If you´re into warm, melodic, harmonic

scandostuff with subtle changes you´ll love this. I still have a hard

time accepting that I like this ;-) You won´t see me praise this kind of

music so very often in the future, I can promiss you that :-) The carpet

of fluffy sounds may cause you to vomit if you´re sensible to a nice and

friendly atmosphere, but I haven´t used my barfbag yet. The record is

spinning for the 20th time or something like that now so this ep must be

relly really good :-) I might be the wrong person to elect the best

morningtrance ep of the year but I would atleast like to nominee this

for the title if I´m allowed?

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This is great stuff. I'm glad you are an objective reviewer, Stormbringer. I

myself am not much into the minimal sound (except yumade, paps and some

others) but I am not usually into stuff this fluffy and housy, but Human Blue

have made some killer emotional tracks for the early evening or sunrise period

in this release. A comendable set of tracks with a similar style but as

Stormbringer said, an exciting flow and awesome groove. Intercity is my

favorite, but Carpe Diem isn't at all dissapointing. A pleasant release that

will appeall to all those who enjoy the more emotional, morning style of

things, but apparantly can draw even the diehard midnight minimal fan.

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I agree with the above, this is brilliant morning music. Veryy nice production,

organic progression and very pleasant and yet not too cheesy sounds. Tasteful

trance for the dawn.

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I have yet to dislike a Human Blue release, and its also nice to see him back

on Spiral Trax, my favorite label as I'm sure some of you know. Stormbringer

says he doesn't think of Human Blue as being so melodic in terms of previous

releases, but if you back to his first album Ice, and the Stonehenge 12" (also

on Spiral Trax), I think one will notice more similarities. Both sides are

excellent in my opinion, they share a similar structure and build-up, Carpe

Diem has a few more elements going on I think, but again, they're each very

nice in their own way. Certainly more on the melodic tip, as mentioned above,

but I wouldn't rule out playing it on the dancefloor. Just because

heavier/darker/minimal stuff is all the rage these days doesn't mean there's

no room for melodic trance. Great release dag, can't wait for the album.

9/10.

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