Deedrah - Reload

[Guest Stormbringer]

Deedrah - Reload

 

 

Artist: Deedrah

Title: Reload

Label: Hadshot

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

01. Reload

02. Manley Hazard

 

Review:

 

Which track was the best one from year 2000? I can´t really choose

between "Microwave" by Steve Active (Stefan Keller)(see the EP-section

for my review) or "Reload" by Deedrah. They´re very different so I´ll

stick to having them both as number one :-) "Reload" (10/10) has

everything a full-on track should have. Even though I´ve listened to

"Reload" so many times now I still can´t get enough of it, and when I

first heard this track I was really blown away. I don´t like to give the

grade 10/10 to every single good record out there because I think the

10/10 should be reserved for classics only. I mean records that I will

play until I die!!! Trust me when I say that this track is something

very special. It has worked it´s way up to my top ten of all times and

maybe it will stay there forever? As I said, "Reload" has it all if you

like energetic, melodic psytrance. The beginning is dark and threatening

with a women singing and you can really feel that it´s going to explode

soon. When it does, I just can´t sit down! Then it slows down again to

reload some energy and some string instruments plays a sad melody. You

understand you´ll not have to wait too long for the beat to come back

and then it builds, builds, builds, builds, builds... until you almost

can´t take it anymore. You might feel afraid that your arteries in your

head will break, but don´t be! Thats just normal and I´ve survived

listening to "Reload" hundreds of times. The long sweeping synthsounds

on top of everything drives me insane and when the track slows down

again you think it´s over, but instead you realize you´ll have to take

another peak of brutal energy directed straight at you. After that rush

your body probably tries to tell you to slow down, so when the track

fades away you probably feel happy it´s over... sucker!!! "Reload"

reloads one more time and then it´s finally over. If you want to have

this track don´t buy the vinyl of Deedrahs last album "Reload" because

you´ll not find it there! Buy the CD-release instead or this 12" if you

can find it. There is a remix of this track too by GMS (on Deedrahs

release "Far And Away") but the original beats that remix. The b-side

"Manley Hazard" (4/10) is slow tech-housey stuff that may work in a

club, but I don´t like it.

[Basilisk]

Wow did I ever get this one wrong. From my original review:

 

i don't think it has what it takes to become a classic.

 

reload is oft quoted as THE tune of 2001... will that STILL be the case in 2004?

Wrong! This is certainly THE tune of 2001. Without question. It setup the development out of minimal into the full-on craze which has continued unabated for half a decade now. The importance of this tune cannot be understated... I've always been merely lukewarm on it (hence my initial skepticism) but I will not deny that its influence has been massive.

Edited April 3, 2006 by Basilisk

[Guest Defbydelta...]

I think reload and the remix is very very simular to each other. but i cant say

which off the how is the best..

but GMS remix has a wonderful beginning but ends up a little more boring than

the original..

9/10

[Basilisk]

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[Guest [Anonymous]]

I think Reload is very bad track, i hate those "violins" (I usually like

violins but not in this track)

[Guest andyc[at]ecossetel[dot]com]

Actually the "Violins" and string section and the Hoy are samples taken from

the "Vagabonds" track by UK ClogMeisters, New Model Army.............I belive

The guy who played them originally was Called Ed Alleyne Johnson............in

case anyone was interested.