|
|||||||
| NEXT |
|
Destination Manchester due for release 14th April 2003 is an album compiled and mixed by Mettle Music, selecting tracks that best represent the many rich & diverse Manchester based deep house music producers and their own personal journey from the Hacienda's dancefloor to world respected producers. The tracks & artists on this album represent not only the diversity of talent in the 'rainy city' but also a common thread in the way the Manchester Music scene feeds off its self with the well established producers such as Salt City Orchestra & Rainy City continually evolving themselves and at the same time influencing a wide range of 'new breed' artists & producers. Tracklisting: The Elastic Band
- Funk In Suspense (Rainy City) listen (78 min real audio stream) |
|
|
| Review
by Chris Long: BBC
Manchester There are many words that have been attached to Manchester over the years and most of them, thanks to the clouds that plague the skies above, have been to do with rain. So it's a welcome relief to find a compilation that adds a new one... destination. That's, if Nic Conef and Mark Wadsworth's mix of the finest in Manchester sounds is to be believed, destination for chilled out clubbing, for backroom dancefloors, for strutting sounds and slipped beats, for the laid-back back cool that has stretched across the city's history like a sprawling lion. Destination Manchester is a solidly wonderful collection. Housed inside a digi-pack that includes pictures of Urbis, Piccadilly Gardens, the Printworks, the Apollo and many more from unexpected angles, and spouting facts about the city's population, arts facilities and bar culture (and of course, the annual rainfall figure), it's not far off of summing up Manchester at the moment, a stripped down, funked up, sumptuous mish mash of a place. There's 17 delights on offer, strung together like sparkle packed fairy lights across a revolving dancefloor, and there's not a duff track between them. From the lowdown shoe shuffle of Only Child's Space Disco to the latino arm-throwing of Malena's Para Ti, every one is solid and every one is Manc! Among the sturdy mix, there's a few real diamonds glittering away. Brooks' You Me & Us (named after the Chorlton bric-a-brac store of the same name) is a squiggling chilled beauty that swims a sublime vocal around you, Crazy Penis' You Are We' is the kind of tune that makes you grin upon entering a club, LHK & Alex Moran's Monkey Bob swings in with a funk guitar under one arm and a whole bag of fun under the other, and top of the pile (as usual), Mr Scruff's Sweet Smoke pops up for a trumpet-fuelled beep-fest that'll have even the most monged of you tapping your toes. You'll struggle to get better than this. All the major players are here (Paper Recordings, Grand Central, the Scruffster) and there's room enough for the lesser knowns. As adverts for cities go, this is right out of the top drawer. Destination Manchester proves the city is still cool and loving it. Rating: 10/10 |
