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Green & Blue 2011 - Raresh & Sascha Dive
Green & Blue 2011 - Raresh & Sascha Dive
Cocoon
Deep house and techno
September 2011
Green & Blue is one of the many festivals Sven Vath curates each year, and one of the many compilation releases he also oversees. Following on from the illustrious likes of Loco Dice and Ricardo Villalobos, this year it’s Raresh and Sascha Dive in the mix, both of whom craft decidedly deep and relatively stripped back affairs.
Raresh steps up for the first disc, returning to Cocoon after first appearing with the Freakshow Cocoon Summer Mix 2007. Stating in a deliciously deep and dubby pocket, he slowly pulls himself out of it thanks to smooth but propulsive layers of sound from the ever-excellent Deepchord and stupidly named Harrison Fnord. When the sort of minimal clicks and pops you may expect from Raresh do seep in at around track 4, they add a number of different churning rhythms and help carry things to the next level in a deft manner.
The firm deep house of Delano Smith may be a surprise inclusion, but it works, as do choppier cuts from Ion Ludwig and kicking passages from Daze Maxim. It seems odd that a mix in 2011 can be closed out by Café Del Mel’s Energy 52 – even if it is a Ricardo Villalobos dub – without it being corny, but somehow it nicely dismantles what has gone before and leaves you feeling you’ve actually been on a journey.
Sacha Dive goes a little darker and broodier right from the off with his mix. Threading weird samples, pulsing kicks and stringy percussive elements, he weaves his way in and out of a number of moods thanks to solid efforts from Margaret Dygas, Berghain associate Ben Klock and organic house man Guillaume & The Coutu Dumont. Both discs here unravel at a nice pace and stay nicely reserved through out, meaning it’s probably a more subtle set then you may ever hear outdoors; at a festival, but is all the more appealing as a result.
Kristan J Caryl
Cocoon
Deep house and techno
September 2011
Green & Blue is one of the many festivals Sven Vath curates each year, and one of the many compilation releases he also oversees. Following on from the illustrious likes of Loco Dice and Ricardo Villalobos, this year it’s Raresh and Sascha Dive in the mix, both of whom craft decidedly deep and relatively stripped back affairs.
Raresh steps up for the first disc, returning to Cocoon after first appearing with the Freakshow Cocoon Summer Mix 2007. Stating in a deliciously deep and dubby pocket, he slowly pulls himself out of it thanks to smooth but propulsive layers of sound from the ever-excellent Deepchord and stupidly named Harrison Fnord. When the sort of minimal clicks and pops you may expect from Raresh do seep in at around track 4, they add a number of different churning rhythms and help carry things to the next level in a deft manner.
The firm deep house of Delano Smith may be a surprise inclusion, but it works, as do choppier cuts from Ion Ludwig and kicking passages from Daze Maxim. It seems odd that a mix in 2011 can be closed out by Café Del Mel’s Energy 52 – even if it is a Ricardo Villalobos dub – without it being corny, but somehow it nicely dismantles what has gone before and leaves you feeling you’ve actually been on a journey.
Sacha Dive goes a little darker and broodier right from the off with his mix. Threading weird samples, pulsing kicks and stringy percussive elements, he weaves his way in and out of a number of moods thanks to solid efforts from Margaret Dygas, Berghain associate Ben Klock and organic house man Guillaume & The Coutu Dumont. Both discs here unravel at a nice pace and stay nicely reserved through out, meaning it’s probably a more subtle set then you may ever hear outdoors; at a festival, but is all the more appealing as a result.
Kristan J Caryl
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