Fabric 41 : Mixed By Luciano

RICARDO VILLALOBOSと共にミニマル･テクノシーンを牽引するチリ出身のLUCIANOが満を持してFabric シリーズに登場！

Electronica producer Luciano specializes in microhouse, a minimal, somewhat heady version of house music. Yet Luciano's tracks are often embellished with Latin or tribal beats, on top of the already sophisticated layering he does with multiple tracks in clean, unfaltering lockstep. His contribution to the Fabric remix series does not feature any of his own productions, however. Even so, Luciano brings his trademark sensibility to his mixes of tracks by M83, Inner City, Brother Vibe, Phuture, and others. The result is an 80-minute excursion into the realm of microhouse as performed by one of its masters.|

Fabric 41 was one of the precious few mix albums by Luciano commercially available at the time of its release. Considering Luciano is often compared complimentarily to Ricardo Villalobos and widely considered one of the top minimal DJs of the new millennium, it's unfortunate there aren't more. Fabric 41 is a fantastic showcase of his DJ performance style, which includes overlayered mixes and a varied track selection of minimal and Latin- and tribal-tinged house. Within the first quarter of the 80-minute, 16-track set, Luciano showcases his knack for layering one track over another and letting them play out. He does this twice in a row with Brothers' Vibe's "El Baile" and Los Updates' "Getting Late (Luciano's Getting Late Remix)," and he does it most impressively later on in the set when he layers M83's "In Church" over Julien Jabre's "Jungle Beatz." His subsequent transition from "Jungle Beatz" into Inner City's "Good Love (Luciano Remix)" is also impressive, leading next into one of the album's peak tracks, Phuture's "Rise From Your Grave (Tiefschwarz Remix)." While the mixing is impressive from a technical standpoint, it also helps keep the track selection moving along from one musical style to the next -- from the minimal style of the first third to the house style of the middle, then back to minimal for the finale. Luciano includes several tracks released by his label Cadenza (Rhadoo's "Slagare," Reboot's "Be Tougher," Alex Picone's "Floppy," Schneider, Galluzzi, Schirmacher's "Albertino"), along with a couple of his remixes, but there surprisingly aren't any of his own productions. ~ Jason Birchmeier

リカルド・ヴィラロボスの盟友にして、クリック最重要レーベルのひとつであるカデンザ主宰……などの前口上は要らないだろう。現行クリック・シーンを支えるVIPのひとり、ルチアーノが〈DJミックスの直木賞〉的存在となってきた〈Fabric〉に満を持しての登場!　前半はカデンザ音源を中心に、そして中盤ではギョーム&クーツ・デュモンツによるセティ“Mogane”のリミックスや、オスロ発の大ヒットとなるジョニー・D“Orbitalife”といったパーカッシヴ有機クリックでピークを迎える。さらにはルチアーノ自身やティーフシュワルツが温故知新リミックスを施したケヴィン・サンダーソンやフューチャーらのクラシックを経由して、ひたすら美しいラストで大団円!　ジャケどおりのオーガニック・クリック桃源郷です!
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