Various – Forever Love / Get Down
Label: Aspect Music – ASC1/ASC2
Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12″
Country: UK
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Deep House, Minimal
Seldom sighted minimal house / tech double pack on Aspect Music – the short-lived tech-house (NOT a dirty word) imprint ran by Thomas Melchior that birthed just 3 incredible records between 00-01, and squeezed out a few more later on but let’s ignore those for now. Admittedly a confusing time for dance music, much of that techy, mnml house stuff time from the around the turn of the millennium time has NOT been kind to – but if anything has endured from that period of dodgy V-necks and cheap speed it’s the output of Melchior + Baby Ford. Their duo stuff here as Soul Capsule Productions appears three times, first with the awkward microscopic plinky-plonk funk of ‘Forever Love’ and the more free-floating glacial tech flow on ‘Evolved’. Its the two Dark Boys tracks here though, a collaboration again with Melchior and Bruno Maman (who is this guy??) that stand out, ‘Pluto Rising’ with it’s rounded, bubbling bass and crisp, clattering percussion and ‘The Prayer’ – surely the finest moment, an eerie, windswept reduction with a low-end the size of a boeing 737 that’ll shake the club to its core. Tried and tested! Mad spenny double-pack but undoubtably the cream of the crop. (NM/NM – top copy // BOTH LPs).
