Track of the Day

Everyone remembers the pop song by Grace (aka Paul Oakenfold). This remix has a bit more edge...

SuprSi wrote: »

I haven't checked into this thread in ages (except to post the above) but TheAsYLuMkeY, every one of those tracks I absolutely adore. Alchemy, Land of Creation and Hell's Party in particular - all absolute classics

This may be in your top 20 and i don't want to turn this into another classics thread, so will limit it to just one.

To be honest, i am not sure if it would have arrived into my top twenty, but my god it is one amazing track, fits perfectly into that time.

One from his Sabrettes label

#13,

House Pimps - Get the hook

Another amazing track,

This one is not one that is bursting with energy, it has a deeper quality to it, one that was what defined the Asylum atmosphere.

If I can take a stab at trying to describe that atmosphere/feeling,

When you were there on that basement floor the entire outside world was stripped away from your mind, all of the social conditioning and programming seemed to be paused, I know this sounds like a tired out cliché about the Rave but its true, you never had any notions of confrontation, ego like I am better than you, or somehow someone else is lesser than you etc., You all seemed to have a common connection that didn’t have to be established or considered, it just happened, without any other distractions, even so far to override the sexual desire between male and female that is so commonly associated with and the purpose nightclubs, when the Rave was in its fullest, you had no interest in performing any mating rituals, only the Music, the Drugs and the connection to other ravers mattered.

Now throw into the mix a track like this at say 4am when the place is heaving, everyone knows they are in the comfort zone not having to look over their shoulder or concerned about closing times etc.

Lets break it down why it elevates that feeling and atmosphere to an almost spiritual like feeling.

The sweeping sound at the start is icy, almost cold like, designed to send shivers through your body from the drugs you are under the influence of, and it does send rushes down your body, thats just to prepare you for the impending rock solid bass with an alternating beat, one for one, that arrives in at 01:01, that bass and beat pounds the place and releases the Ravers from its grip just before, then it drops out the sweeping sound at 01:24 and many other background noises to give a ‘cleaner’ more focussed rhythm that has a high pitched synth, this is where I can imagine the full on white strobes lighting the place up with those rapid claps complimenting the strobe flashes, and you are full on into the track pulling you along with it. A few more breaks in the track with female vocal give pause for a build of energy only to return back to that rock solid bass and beat. But there is another quality to this track, that is used in so many of the best tracks, it has a very emotive choir like sound over arching the track that is present while it is doing it magic that comes in at 02:42, this is not immediately apparent but it creates a real kind of other worldly feeling in your mind, this is where that Asylum atmosphere that has endured in peoples minds for so long partly comes from, something I suppose unexplainable happens, like a feeling but not quite, there have been many terms used over many years by humans to try to describe that ‘feeling’, the best I can repeat and that identify with is, ‘Touching the void’. How I interpret what that means is we believe in general that there is something else beyond this existence, whether that is an afterlife as theologies speak of is unknown, but there is a deep rooted almost intuition that there is something beyond this realm, ‘Touching the void’ to me means having been transported mentally to a place that feels like you were ever so briefly not of this realm, but something that was not 100% identifiable, ‘The Void’, this type of track created that for me, but I guess many others also in the Asylum and that is why stories of it and tracks like these keep on being repeated and their importance held so high by the commentators.

#12

This one simply blows me away, i can specifically recall the first time i heard this, it was about 6am on the top floor of the Asylum, the power it had to bring the place back to life, oh my fu*king holy christ..........



Still have this treasure on Vinyl.:)

Really enjoying this. Just gets better and better.