New G.U: Sasha- Involver

[T-Sizzle]

yep out 14th in UK and 22 in us

[zartan]

nice!

[T-Sizzle]

OH sHiT!!! i can't wait

1 Grandnational - Talk Amongst Yourselves
2 Spooky - Belong (Ambient)
3 Shpongle - Devon Perception
4 Petter - These Days
5 Unkle - What You Mean To Me
6 Chemical Brothers - The Test
7 Youngsters - Smile
8 Junkie XL - Surreal
9 Spooky - Belong
10 Unkle - In A State
11 Luke Chable - Burma
12 Felix Da Housecat - Watching The Cars Go
13 Sasha - Itchy Trigger
14 Ulrich Schauss - On My Own

His last album was f'in liked out smoked out and i heard he outdid hisself on this one so....YYYEEEEEEEEEAh!!

:zzz:

[gabriel]

no hay disc 2?

[Bedrock Science]

Yay I can't wait. And I LOVE SPOOKY - BELONG. The words are so touching, and I love the singers voice, has a haunting quality to it.

[DJ Tiesto]

thats mah boy

[Xodus]

Yeah I'm actually quite interested in checking this out. Cool pic for the cd cover too:

http://www.navarre.com/admaterials/artwork/828272/828272130122-072-sRGB.jpg

[antifa]

yep out 14th in UK and 22 in us

bloody brits are always a step ahead of us!

[Echelon]

Phat tracklisting, seems less break heavy and more trance/house influenced. It's about time after all the breakbeat releases. The Delta Heavy 2004 promo from Alex and Diggers was completely breaks. This one looks really good to me, I play all these artists. I really love Schnauss's ethereal breaks too.

[RAMIRO]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

[trigster02]

hopefully he'll take it up a notch, combining the spaciness of airdrawn... while learning from his very in-form and epic live sets from last year. glastonbury is still in heavy rotation for me.

[neuroticinsight]

hmm, there actually is a lot of breaks on there. and seeing as all of the tracks are either edited or remixed by sasha, they will probably be nearly all breaks. i actually find it kind of odd that cyberwhore (watching the cars go by) is on there though. :-p especially right after the chable...very odd indeed. the schnauss remix is top top class imo. will be the best track on the mix x 100. hope its on the vinyl release.

[T-Sizzle]

well he said a good portion will be progressive breaks... but shi , i'd buy the whole album if it was nothing but beatless ambient shit... i don't care, it's sasha

[rajdeep]

All you Sasha fans - send the man wishes on his birfday on May 22nd. :banana:

[original2k]

ahh man i can't wait for this cd, seeing that i haven' bought a cd in a long time it's great to see sasha putting out another album, but is that the 22nd of june it's comming out or this month?

[rajdeep]

Interview with an Indian radio jockey:

http://www.go925fm.com/sasha.asf

[DJ ORI]

They played a 15 minute preview of Involver on XTC radio yesterday. It was really good too. I still wonder if he worked with tom and charlie again? The preview which was almost 3 tracks had a simmilar sound to airdrawndagger.

[uberclkgtr]

I still wonder if he worked with tom and charlie again? The preview which was almost 3 tracks had a simmilar sound to airdrawndagger.

possibly. but then again, 90% of the progressive produced today sounds like airdrawndagger. bells and basslines. :shrug:

[DJ ORI]

possibly. but then again, 90% of the progressive produced today sounds like airdrawndagger. bells and basslines. :shrug:

i meant the atmosperic, appregated (*sp) melodies that gave airdrawndagger is sound.

[juicy]

Got to hear a full length promo (my friend has one) and it was fantastic! Definitely holds some of the same vibe as ADD, but it's much better. He remixes a bunch of tracks with vocals and guitars. Starts nice and slow and ends with the Ulrich Schnauss track at around 140 bpm. The whole thing was mixed using alberton live and it was done very well (of course). I can't wait till June 22nd...i want my copy now!!!

[uberclkgtr]

i meant the atmosperic, appregated (*sp) melodies that gave airdrawndagger is sound.

yeah, i was referring to the same sounds, like what chable, benz & md, subsky, etc. have been producing post-airdrawndagger. but while holden, may, and holkenberg helped sasha in the studio, sasha wrote the tunes mostly, right? if that's the case, then it shouldn't be surprising that arpeggiated melodies abound in the new rmxs, and that it contains the same sound palette given that much of progressive nowadays contains that sound palette.

i guess that's one reason i really liked airdrawndagger - it had such a unique sound palette at the time. but like anything good, it's bound to be copied. and copied. and copied some more. some with better results than others. :sadblue:

[DJ ORI]

it was charlie may......listen to his solo productions and listen to sashas (solo) productions. tell me which one airdrawndagger sounds like

[uberclkgtr]

yeah, charlie may's bug ep is definitely one of the earliest things i recall hearing with that sound. some rmxs he did too, of bedrock's "emerald" and that track by josh gabriel.

are there any new charlie may tracks on the involver album? my understanding was that it was sasha reworks of other artist's work, much like pvd's politics of dancing CD.

[DJ ORI]

I just dont think its well known that all of Sashas most "influental" and "groundbreaking" works were more a collaboration with he, charlie may and tom holkenborg. Course i wasnt there when it was made but the proof is in the music.

[DJ ORI]

my understanding was that it was sasha reworks of other artist's work, much like pvd's politics of dancing CD.

If he was truly solo on this then i think being in the studio with charlie and tom has finally paid off. I mean i heard only a few minutes of it and thought it was really fuggin good :thumbsup:

[DJ ORI]

Did any sounds become the basis for songs?

Lots of different things could be the hook of a song. Sometimes it was a bass line, a melody or a drum beat. It was different for each track. Charlie is amazing at coming up with melodies and hooks. I learned to play piano when I was a kid, but I can't play keyboards the way Charlie can; he's phenomenal. Sometimes I'd come up with a bass line, and he'd write a melody over it. The melodic side of the album is its strongest point. It has intricate, complex melodies, but it works. I did a lot of writing with Charlie. We have a very mellow vibe in the studio, and we did a lot of writing in the countryside. Some of the best tracks came out of working in that completely chilled vibe. I'd be cooking food at the house, and it was really beautiful and quiet out there.

The lines between producing, engineering, mixing, programming and writing got very blurred on this record. Everyone involved had a hand in everything. Charlie was involved the most with Logic and writing. Tom helped out most on the mixing and engineering side, as well as pulling the whole project together. Simon's role was to turn things on their heads. I sat in the middle of them all with this fairly concrete idea of what I wanted the record to be.

With Charlie, Simon and Tom, I've found the same partnership in the studio that I've found with John [Digweed] as a DJ.

From an interview in REMIX magazine about airdrwndagger :
http://remixmag.com/ar/remix_knives/index.htm

Its acually a great read on the creative process and creation of that album.

[uberclkgtr]

very cool! thanks for the link.

i'm looking forward to this album. perhaps he well drop a few tunes off it when he comes to sonar in june? :cross:

[rajdeep]

Sasha, Sonar, in June....??? :crazyeyes:

[maynard]

Raj:

http://www.buzzlife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36827

[DJ ORI]

I pooped my pants when i saw that

[rajdeep]

:whoa: :specialed:

[DJ ORI]

*poop

[Bchan]

:bounce:

[T-Sizzle]

6/19 : ULTRAWORLD @ SONAR : SASHA : Luke Fair :

I would walk there from dc in a thunderstorm on 95 with a broken leg if i had too
this shizz is some big bizzness.. he usually rocks the damn roof off of the smaller clubs

:zzz:

[: ORI :]

I think Raj and I are already there for this one......

[rajdeep]

U betcha Ori v2.0!! :raveon:

[: ORI :]

U betcha Ori v2.0!! :raveon:

hahaah.....yeah....seeing as how I havent been playing out "DJing" anywhere I was going to chage it to "Makes Mix CDs alot ORI" but that was too long. So i just used Ori....

[rajdeep]

:haha: :afterbuzz:

[Jay Selway]

WERD! I wish digweed was playing also. I'm partial to his sets ;)

[T-Sizzle]

man i feel like such a dumbass ... i went to like 3 stores looking for involver and finially i came to fye and they didn't have it i was like what the fock... then i realized it comes out NEXT month on the 22nd... god damn it, anyone have a bootleg?

:zzz:

[rajdeep]

WERD! I wish digweed was playing also. I'm partial to his sets ;)
I can imagine why! :wink:

Both of you really like to pound those beats... :banana: :raveon:

[Prem]

Involver CD review is out. Of course 9/10 for this one.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review_view.asp?id=2003

[L)(G]

Has anyone heard it yet?

[ezdabrca2]

Did anyone else go to the NYC new years eve show? Sasha was fucking amazing, and played for 7-8 hours. Club Avalon was the venue, a converted church. Quite epic :)

[NIN75]

someone that has involver needs to post that-NOW

[uberclkgtr]

so i heard the GU promo of this last night. only 20 minutes long, but it sounds good. different from airdrawdagger, though some of the same synth sounds. beats are broken and 4/4. lots of spacey atmospherics. there's a new remix of my favorite spooky track, "belong". beautiful.

this is more sitting-down progressive house. i would not play this sort of music in a club. but it sure is purdy. lots of long breakdowns, as is usual with sasha. he keeps it interesting though.

looking forward to hearing the full-length version. :twothumb:

[: ORI :]

im still wondering if hes tryley solo on this one......anyone seen any production credits anywhere?

[UpOneLevel]

Can't wait for this one....Is it Trance???

[uberclkgtr]

trance, as in emotional vocal tracks with big long breakdowns? yes.

trance, as in what armin or ferry or tiesto play? no.

[retail]

so i heard the GU promo of this last night. only 20 minutes long, but it sounds good. different from airdrawdagger, though some of the same synth sounds. beats are broken and 4/4. lots of spacey atmospherics. there's a new remix of my favorite spooky track, "belong". beautiful.

this is more sitting-down progressive house. i would not play this sort of music in a club. but it sure is purdy. lots of long breakdowns, as is usual with sasha. he keeps it interesting though.

looking forward to hearing the full-length version. :twothumb:

thanks for the mini-review james... i'll pick this up just cause i'm a die-hard :vipbathroom:

[NIN75]

got the full promo version-good, not great-won't run out to buy it when it comes out later this month.

[: ORI :]

im still wondering if hes truley solo on this one......anyone seen any production credits anywhere?

http://www.discogs.com/release/302289

Ok..finally found something. Simmilar to Aridrawndagger its not that much of a solo album. Charlie May was all over this one again.

Keyboards and drum programming by Sasha, Barry Jamieson, Charlie May and Simon Wright
Additional remix and production by Barry Jamieson
Additional remix by Charlie May for Nettwerk:Ornadel Management - tracks 1,4,5
Additional programming by Charlie May for Nettwerk:Ornadel Management - track 8
Sound design and additional programming by Simon Wright - tracks 1,3,5,6,7,8
Additional editing and sound design by Chris Hawkes

1 Grand National Talk Amongst Yourselves (10:22)
Co-producer - Charlie May , Simon Wright
2 Shpongle Dorset Perception (9:31)
3 Petter These Days (2:54)
Co-producer - Simon Wright
4 UNKLE What Are You To Me? (4:07)
Co-producer - Charlie May
5 Youngsters, The Smile (9:33)
Co-producer - Charlie May , Simon Wright
6 Spooky Belong (7:37)
Co-producer - Simon Wright
7 UNKLE In A State (5:39)
Co-producer - Simon Wright
8 Lo Step Burma (12:01)
Co-producer - Charlie May , Simon Wright
9 Felix Da Housecat Watching Cars Go By (8:11)
10 Ulrich Schnauss On My Own (7:42)

[iminxtc]

do u like it? it grew on me and is one of my favs

[2rip]

i'm dying to hear this set. probably beating a dead horse by saying it but i've been curious to hear if it's worth the hype it received in magazines.

[Echelon]

http://www.discogs.com/release/302289

Ok..finally found something. Simmilar to Aridrawndagger its not that much of a solo album. Charlie May was all over this one again.

Keyboards and drum programming by Sasha, Barry Jamieson, Charlie May and Simon Wright
Additional remix and production by Barry Jamieson
Additional remix by Charlie May for Nettwerk:Ornadel Management - tracks 1,4,5
Additional programming by Charlie May for Nettwerk:Ornadel Management - track 8
Sound design and additional programming by Simon Wright - tracks 1,3,5,6,7,8
Additional editing and sound design by Chris Hawkes

1 Grand National Talk Amongst Yourselves (10:22)
Co-producer - Charlie May , Simon Wright
2 Shpongle Dorset Perception (9:31)
3 Petter These Days (2:54)
Co-producer - Simon Wright
4 UNKLE What Are You To Me? (4:07)
Co-producer - Charlie May
5 Youngsters, The Smile (9:33)
Co-producer - Charlie May , Simon Wright
6 Spooky Belong (7:37)
Co-producer - Simon Wright
7 UNKLE In A State (5:39)
Co-producer - Simon Wright
8 Lo Step Burma (12:01)
Co-producer - Charlie May , Simon Wright
9 Felix Da Housecat Watching Cars Go By (8:11)
10 Ulrich Schnauss On My Own (7:42)

So was Simon Wright. It looks like May and Wright together might have done more work on this album than the man himself. It's funny that he's so famous he takes all the credit for it and they gladly accept. But only those who really know thier stuff know otherwise. I've heard Sasha spin some of these songs in Live sets tho and they fit in pretty well with the dancefloor also.