BACK IN THE BOX SAMPLER 03 by GLOBAL COMMUNICATION

Sampler #3 from the Global Communication “Back In The Box” compilation album, the techno and ambient retrospective selected by Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, back together again after a 15 year hiatus. Check!Opening up this four track EP is an ultra rare and often overlooked Carl Craig Remix of Yennek, AKA Kenny Larkin. Two Detroit pioneers collide on this beauty, with delicate oscillating keys gliding over a heavyweight breakbeat and clattering hats, a signature style of Carl’s. Track two comes from UK’s Matt Cogger AKA Neuropolotique, but recorded in Detroit for Juan Atkin’s Interface label back in 1990. Out of Amsterdam, Maarten van der Vleuten was one of the wave of Dutch producers pioneering the sound alongside Detroit, British and German counterparts. Flux’s “True Feelings” is a string-dominated squelch-funker with the DX100 synths trademark bass wrapping around face slapping snares, claps and funky conga lines. Originally out on an R&S Records sub-label back in 1992. Wrapping up this release are the godfathers of the UK sound, 808 State. This track, lifted from their phenomenal album “90″, is moody and sparse, with almost an Eastern feel to it’s glacial melody and hypno-groove.