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VA - Blackliters - Compiled by Nukleall

Blacklite Records

 

Tracklist:

 

01. M-Theory - Into The Light
02. Earthspace - Turn Inside Your Mind
03. Kim Vs Nukleall - Blackliters
04. Tron Vs Kachok - UFO
05. Audioform - Magic Mojo
06. Paratech - Higher Connection
07. Nukleall Vs Contineum - Mushroom Trackers
08. Inlakech Vs Makar - Hierophant
09. Martian Arts & Retroflex - Unitygain

 

As you can tell by the vibrant cover art, this one is for the UV-reactive club kids.

 

"Blackliters" is stacked with some notable names, many of whom offer up some very un-noteworthy tracks, due to this collection's focus on today's preference for energetic, but unimaginative, full-on.

 

Quite a few of these tracks introduce energy and been-there, done-that full-on effects for the first half of their offerings before revving up their engines for the big finish. Too little, too late for many of these guys, though. M-Theory's lead-off track has some encouraging tempo but little in the way of depth or dimension so it becomes almost white noise by the time it is over.

 

Earthspace, a great full-on producer when he takes the brakes off, toys around with too many cliched psygressive effects and each time he just goes for it, in grand Earthspace fashion, he pulls the track back, refusing to let the energy boil over into something fantastic.

 

Nukleall's first contribution (co-produced with Kim) on the title track is ho-hum and fares nowhere near as well as his tag-team with Contineum later in the collection. "Mushroom Trackers," one of the main highlights here, is a blistering, high-energy, fucking-go-for-it full-on track, the type where the build-ups and pay-offs will have a crowd screaming their approval.

 

The notable names of Tron (co-producing with Kachok) and Martian Arts (co-producing with Retroflex) offer up generic and at-least-they-tried results, respectively.

 

The tracks that almost attain greatness come from Audioform and Paratech, both of whom offer up beastly productions that lead in awesomely to the Nukleall vs Contineum highlight. Unfortunately, again, both of those tracks are stuck in the ascribed blueprint of what today's full-on club tracks are supposed to sound like. They are good noise and almost, almost, almost offer up something of substance.

 

Ultimately, it is painfully obvious that Inlakech vs Makar have no business being on this compilation. "Hierophant" is imaginative, creative, smart and strikes its own path in defining what full-on is all about. No matter what angle you look at it, the track is stellar, working out well as a full-bodied dance-floor killer or as a very solid piece of art that can be admired in detail.

 

On "Blackliters," there are several great producers but not too many great productions.

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