Paps And Yumade - Databass 1

[Guest Stormbringer]

Paps And Yumade - Databass 1

 

 

Artist: Paps And Yumade

Title: Databass 1

Label: Databass

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. Paps : Do U Know ?

02. Yumade : Hair Zatz

 

Review:

 

This is the first release from the label DATABASS MUSIC and I´ve had it

in my possession for some time know. I didn´t really know what to write

in my review so that´s why I´ve waited so long to review it. Some of you

might have done your homework and you should know by now that both Paps

and Yumade usually creates very minimal and technoid trance. Some people

even refuse to call it trance at all and I can understand them. I tried

to mix both this ep and the second release from Databass Music (review

in progress) with some swedish techno and it worked great so it´s no

understatement that the sound of Databass Music is very technoid indeed.

The most obvious thing that really differs between this sound and the

"real" technosound are the loops. Paps and Yumade don´t use loops in the

same way as the traditional technoartists and the drumsounds are pretty

different too, but I didn´t notice that when I mixed the different kinds

of music together. This ep is a good example of music that could work

great both on the trancefloor and the technofloor at the same party. The

Paps track "Do U Know?" (6/10) is slamming techno-trance with some

psykosounds as usual with Paps. This is not one of the best tracks he´s

made but it´s ok if you like his unique sound. Yumade "Hair Zatz" (7/10)

is a track that really differs from the usual slow (and nothing will

ever happen in this track so why do you even bother to listen to it?)

style of Yumade. I haven´t heard anything that I really liked with

Yumade previous to this ep but "Hair Zatz" is energetic and pumping

enough to get me interested. If you ask me... this is the best track so

far from Yumade, but I haven´t heard his ep´s released on Shpastic

Elastic so I might have missed some of his best tracks? The first

compilation from Databass Music "Winter Session" has just been released

and the Paps track is on that compilation if you can´t find the vinyl.

If you´re not too afraid of the borderland between trance and techno

then this ep could be worth checking out?

[Guest Stormbringer]

Yumade isn´t a soloartist. Yumade = Laurent Barateau & Pierre Busson. Sorry

about that mistake!

[jaimz]

Although I haven't heard 'Do U Know?' I really think Yumade's 'Hair Zatz'

[143bpm / 6:25] is one of Yumade's better tracks. Yumade seemed to have

settled into a bit more of a groove production-wise, and I much prefer them

moving more towards the techno edge and away from the technoid sound. 'Hair

Zatz' is almost exactly what I'd be wanting to hear in the dark of the night.

Lots of gradual filters, reversed percussion, the usual funky stuff that

produces a groove while messing with your psyche at the same time.

 

The Yumade track also appears on a Gaia XI compilation, which is why I've heard

that and not the Paps.

[Guest [Anonymous]]

hair zatz is total crazyness!

[Basilisk]

Interesting & abstract minimal/tech/prog mish-mash.

[Guest Dandoo Forest]

nice ep

altrough i like PAPS much more than the Yumade track

[Guest Tchankov I.V.]

Yumade track is somewhat trippier then Paps & yes, one of the better ones from

them. I'd call it effective groove modulation. Paps track is more or less what

you can expect from this project, a little more concentrated on the techno

feel rather then psy-grooves & effects. 7,5/10 for the EP. Tchankov I.V