The Delta - Thing

[Guest Stormbringer]

The Delta - Thing

 

 

Artist: The Delta

Title: Thing

Label: D-Drum

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

01. Thing (D Edit)

02. Thing (Vinyl Edit)

 

Review:

 

I guess that most trancelovers have already heard "Thing" by The Delta

but someone should review this EP for those poor bastards not yet owning

the first 12" release on D.DRUM or the "Scizoeffective" album. "Thing"

D.Edit (9/10) is really heavy. It has these pounding beats that will

hurt your speakers badly and maybe turn your furniture into firewood

too. If you want a feud with your neighbours, then this is the track for

you! The bass is extremely powerful and I can only imagine how it would

feel to stand in front of a big soundsystem instead of my crappy

dj-gear. There´s some horroratmosphere in this version but not as much

as in the album version. To be honest... this is a pretty poor remix of

one of the best tracks of all time. The massive intro from the

albumversion is

gone, the impressive breaks are almost gone, and many of the samples and

sounds are gone. What´s left is the raw beat. "Thing" Vinyl Edit (10/10)

has loads of that atmospere missing in D.Edit but lacks some of the

other ingredients found in the album version. Something that´s really

good with this remix though is the soft and gentle melody that makes an

enormous contrast to the crying childsample in the end of the track.

Crying babies and horrorsamples, do we really need that in the music we

listen to? YES!!! I think that The Delta have understood exactly what

people like me want to listen to. Someone may react on the fact that I

gave very high marks to these remixes even though I was pretty negative.

It´s just that the album version is so much better, but the remixes are

still great tracks compared to other records. There´s also a CD-maxi

with five different mixes.

[Guest Arthur]

X-DREAM FOREVER !!! THE DELTA-THING is a masterpiece PERIOD. 10/10

[Guest [Anonymous]]

Great dance-floor killer!

Thing is certainly one of the best traxx ever produced!

Incredible atmosphere and powerful bass!

the breaks are greatly masterized!

 

A PEARL! A MUST-HAVE!

[Guest [Anonymous]]

I love the sounds of the wolves in Thing. They use the same sound in Dracul.

[Mergi]

At first I was pretty hesitant on reviewing this 12? as it?s been out for

awhile and probably everybody who?s following The Delta has already got it,

thus my review being kind of useless. But, to hell with that. The original

?Thing? from the album is to me one of the most powerful tracks to ever exist,

it?s ten and a half minutes of thrilling orchestral minimal, filled with a

pure horror soundtrack feel. So I just had to get this whenever I got the

chance (as I don?t have credit card shopping online will be highly unwise as I

need to pay more then), and I was lucky and found it at Milky Way Records a

few days ago. The first track (d. edit remix) is as Stormbringer so well put

it ?raw beat?, and that concept for this track is just a big disappointment.

It just doesn?t work for me. The whole horror atmosphere is almost gone and it

was the atmosphere and the orchestral sounds together with the progressive

minimal stuff that made this track so unique. Now they?ve cut it down to six

and a half minutes of ?raw beat?, not too good IMO? 6/10. Vinyl Edit on the

other hand is a very well structured and a very well executed remix, excellent

break somewhere in the middle which reflects a little from the original. It

opens nicely with the trickling sounds of the strings, and they?ve added a new

sound, a sort of mysterious melody enters early on and it coexist perfectly

with the already ongoing horror atmosphere. But of course this one will not

surpass the album version? 9.5/10. EP total? let?s make that an 8/10.