Select

Select Artist: Savvas Ysatis
Label: Efa Imports
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 718755617168
EAN: 0718755617168
ASIN: B00005JGCA


Release Date: 2001-06-26

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Tracks:

  1. Select
  2. Bull Walk
  3. Pathfinder [*]
  4. Sex Tan
  5. Out to Funk
  6. Mar's Bar
  7. Bombshell
  8. Junior
  9. On the Hook

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Well crafted, if empty, experience.......2001-09-13

This marks Savvas Ysatis second album for Tresor, bastion label for all things serious and stringent in dance floor techno. Yet while feasible in a club, his sense of space and atmosphere, and passion for low-slung, dubby grooves, steers Select directly for the home listening environment. The nine meticulously crafted pieces brim with drum tics, rumbling bass, and lush pad blips, the typical stomping ground of Force Tracks releases, actually. ýPathfinderý proves the highlight, slinky, intricate work, with squiggles teasing about. ýSex Taný takes his formula one notch higher by adding some disco kick.

After an hour of metronome nodding, though, a clamoring need for sparks, innovation that goes against technique, begins to surface. To itýs detriment, the individual pieces eventually slur into one long, pretty yet empty, experience. For sure Select is precise, well mannered and well executed. Whatýs not clear is whether, by itself, that can sustain a record.

4 out of 5 stars More Mellow Tech-House Sounds from Saavas.......2001-07-25

To those fans of straight-up four-to-the-floor tech-house music, this album won't disappoint. I found this CD to be more background music to wash dishes and wiggle your bum to than peak-hour booty-shaking dance music, but that's exactly what I was hoping it to be.

SELECT does seem to have more of a funk to it than some of his earlier releases (Hi-Rise, or his Cooler release under his Sound Track alias), even hearkening back to early-to-mid 90s house sound with his use of a stuttering snare drum. Some tracks could easily find themselves on the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction label as well.

Those of you who like your tech-house clean and mellow, ala Theorem or Maurizio, you will not be disappointed.

Music CD:

  1. One Giant Leap -Mcd- ~ Omnivore
  2. Outro Brazil ~ Various Artists
  3. The Underground, Pt. 2 ~ Celeda
  4. Give It to Me ~ Superjuicy
  5. House of Bamboo ~ Flickman
  6. Palladio ~ Silent Nick
  7. Palladio ~ Silent Nick
  8. Caustic Widow ~ Caustic Widow
  9. Beat Head Breaks ~ Various Artists
  10. Low Birth Weight ~ Piano Magic

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Knotwork ~ Steve Ball

Throwing a Wrench Into the American Music Machine ~ Training For Utopia

Headhunter Blitz ~ Krokus

Live at Red Rocks ~ Boukman Eksperyans

Bamboo on the Mountains: Kmhmu Highlanders from Southeast Asia & The U.S. ~ Various Artists

Timbanton ~ Bakuleye

Sanjong ~ Subroto Roy Chowdhury and Maduri Chattopadhyay

Creole Swing ~ Pierre Louis

Memories Off ~ Original Game Soundtrack

Sailing & Whaling Songs of 19th Century ~ Paul Clayton