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THE DOUBTFUL GUEST: Acid Sauna

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Artist: THE DOUBTFUL GUEST (@)
Title: Acid Sauna
Format: CD
Label: Planet Mu (@)
Distributor: Good Fellas
Rated: * * * * *
Mixing acid house, drones, reggae, ambient and breakbeat, Libby Floyd's The Doubtful Guest is releasing its first full length. Presenting seven new tracks, ACID SAUNA, contains fifty minutes of obsessive rhythms, hypnotic loops, Rebirth like sounds (it is the Propellerheads' software which emulate different Roland gear famous to be used to play early techno/house music and now it is downloadable for free) and ambient intuitions. The album opens with the eleven minutes of "Slaves", a track which gathers TR-909, TR-808, TR-303 sounds and other synths just to form a sort of suite where we have the alternation of different moments (techno, acid, etc). The following "Tubby", mixes 2-step, ska and breakbeat melting everything into a ambient hypnotic blob. "Neighborhood" is the most "extreme" of the lot because of its controlled chaos, but the track I appreciated since the first listening is "Brulush" because on this one Libby uses different sounds which aren't linked to a specific instrument and it also has a subtle structure made of techno energy, ambient intuitions and dark ambience. The album is closed by L.H.S. mix of "Ruffpet", a track which blend gabber and acid house into a whirl of sound.

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