A very limited and circumspect selection by Richard Sen of the tracks that marked him in his early days as a selector.
Much dance music from the early ’90s has a shared character that is not always recognized. Said quality is that of the oneiric, as if projecting towards an uncertain but dreamy future or coming from an extraterrestrial and indiscernible world, this sound would put us in contact with ways of understanding sound vibrations hitherto unknown. In the way in which Richard Sen conceives his sets, his way of approaching rave music from the early years… That sleepy, altered, fanciful factor is always present.
Sleepiness and altered states of consciousness are the general moods in Sen’s latest mix-compilation, who, taking advantage of the fact that Ransom Note has launched a new sub-label (Dance Music From Planet Earth), has dared to share a very limited and circumspect selection of the tracks that marked him in his early days as a selector. His latest work, “Dream The Dream (UK Techno, House & Breakbeat 1990-1994)” brings together some unknown or forgotten pearls and jewels from the early 90s. Orr-Some, Strotium 90, Dream Frequency (forgive the redundancy with the name) or some essential UVX reemerge among the piles of vinyl records to remind us of the state of mix, generic confusion and hedonistic extravagance that club culture promised at that time.
The new V/A composed by Richard Sen then functions as a distorted and somewhat disconcerting history lesson. While some of his samples can sound completely naive to us, some of his tracks somewhat contemplative and bloodless for a contemporary dance floor, “Dream The Dream” distances itself from the need to provide a lot of balls, bringing awareness to a particular factor in the UK scene at the time. Narcotic and full of mirages, reverberated voices, hypnotic loops… The ten tracks on the LP very skillfully develop the feeling repeated ad nauseam on club and rave nights: the dream and the loop, the unreality and pleasant disinhibition. This sound, without a particularly nostalgic tone, can only be redeemed and reproduced by someone who actually belonged to the scene as Richard Sen did. Chronicler or participant, figures and limits are blurred in the field of primitive dance music.
2023-06-28 06:07:05
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