Aesthetic Theories

Aesthetic Theories

Editorial Reviews
Boston Weekly Dig
Great From Start to finish.(Noah Horton)

Product Description
Michael Anthony - Aesthetic Theories (DJ Mixed CD) San Francisco Spundae resident Michael Anthony takes you on a tech-house journey featuring tracks by Meat Katie, General Midi, Hakan Lidbo and DropCulture.

Aesthetic Theories

Tracks:

Earthlink Radar-Thunk
Meat Katie Bring Yourself-Kingsize
Magnet The Saga- Qube
Atty Mezcal Attymatik-Planet Vision
Zero Zero Paradisco-Toyokasel
Gez Varley Free Fall- Episode
Issi Noho First Snow (General Midi Remix)-Acetate
Zero Zero East Wards feat Gorna- Toyokasel
Drop Culture Come Alive(skull Valley Dub)-Terraform
Tom Chaseteen Salome-Exist Dance
Michael Anthony Come Alive(Smack Down Mix)-Terraform
Hakin Libdo Bulldozer Funk-Refried Music
Head Affect Fakin-Thunk

Album Description

Michael Anthony - Aesthetic Theories (DJ Mixed CD) San Francisco Spundae resident Michael Anthony takes you on a tech-house journey featuring tracks by Meat Katie, General Midi, Hakan Lidbo and DropCulture.

Customer Reviews:

An original mixture of tech-trance, breaks, and house.......2002-01-23

Michael Anthony has developed a reputation as a kind of creative, eclectic *wunderkindt* among west coast dj's, and this mix on the Terraform label shows why. Anthony serves up a delicious nonstop set here that starts out in a kind of tech-breaks vein, then in Atty Mezcal's "Attymatic" slides into a sound that has affinities with dark, percussive, progressive trance. In the middle portion of the mix there emerges an hypnotic, tech-trance groove that becomes perhaps a bit repetitive in lengthy tracks like Zero Zero's "Paradisco." The mood shifts, however, partway through Issi Noho's "First Snow," which bursts into trancey breaks halfway through. From here, the surprises continue: Zero Zero's "Eastwards" has a delightfully eastern psytrance texture; Tom Chasteen's airy, jazzy "Salom" features a guitar line that is reminiscent of that old San Francisco rocker Carlos Santana; Michael Anthony contributes his own dose of heavy, funky breakbeat in "Come Alive"; Hakan Lidbo's "Bulldozer Funk" has an eighties disco feel; and to wrap things up, Head Affect offers up a final dose of funky dancefloor breaks in "Fakin."

Overall, this is a set that stands out for its mixture of styles and its originality; for most listeners, there is virtually nothing included here they will have heard before on other dj mixes. There is flow and movement and beat and texture, and the set inspires the listener to get up and dance. That makes this a pretty darned good mix, in my book.

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