Innocence and Inspiration, by Elements Of Life

Innocence and Inspiration

by Elements Of Life

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simon simpson Great EP, Get this little beauty bought, I don’t think it’ll be around long…….. snooze ya loose fellow crate diggers 😉

reviewer 古くはSTATE OF MINDとしてデヴューし、以降、AGE OF INSANITY、CHILDREN OF A DEEPER SOCIETY、THE AFRICAN DREAMなどの名義でも活躍したLEE RODRIGUEZ & STEVEN C.コンビが、〈OXYGEN MUSIC WORKS〉からリリースしたシングル”Molecular Dreams('94)”と”So As I Live....So Am I Deep('96)”から、今尚色褪せないカルトなディープハウス・トラック達が、〈EMOTIONAL RESCUE〉のSTUART LEATHとSOFT ROCKSの一員であるPIERS HARRISONによる共同レーベル〈MYSTICISMS〉から再発！個人的にも思い出深いアーバンメローなジャジー・ディープ”Innocence And Inspiration”(sample2)を筆頭に、スピリチュアルなムードのビートレス・トラック”Are You With Me Love?”(sample3)まで、ここ最近のリバイバル・トレンドにもジャストミートな復刻仕事です。

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1.	Opening / Dark Intervals 10:06	buy track
2.	Innocence and Inspiration 08:05	buy track
3.	Are You With Me Love? 05:19	buy track

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After shining a light on the Garage’n’Breaks of Persian and the Bump’n’House of Brian Bristol, the Mysticisms’ crew return with another reissue, to a source of love and inspiration, the epicenter of the 90s NYC club music’s explosion and development, with an EP from the music production partnership of Lee Rodriguez and Steven John Craden.

Better known as the team behind must-have The African Dream double-header on Eightball Records, they were a feature, under numerous pseudonyms, on the early 90s NYC scene with appearances on a who’s who of labels including Movin’, Strictly Rhythm, Tribal and with Elements of Life, on Oxygen Music Works.

Released as a 12”, a 2 x 12” and a CD album, the want of a lot of US labels at the time to mirror the success of Hip Hop saw an attempt to grow House ‘projects’ from club EPs to being seen as artists via albums and onwards.

The limited success of that tactic wasn’t to the detriment of solid music and what the four tracks included here show is at their heart are talented producers who can encompass ambient, jazz and deep / spiritual House music with aplomb.

The EP starts with Opening, a short introductory piece with mellow hats and warm keys that serve to show this is not your average 4 tracker, before soon giving way to the deep intensity of Dark Intervals. Tight drums, hats high and keys pushing, the vocal samples and swirling atmospherics all yield to a bass calling for loud sound systems.

On the reverse is an immense example of spiritual NYC house music for the ages in Innocence And Inspiration. The up, up, up hats, double bass, swirling arpeggio, tight claps, whistle strings, ridin’ jazz fused break-beats and then that purity of the piano cuts through everything like that shit is real. A break and solo for talc, drop and spins on Vinyl Sundays, those Latinos stage left, just watch and learn.

To close, the other side of Rodriquez and Craden is apparent in Are You With Me My Love? Taken from the album, here included to provide a repost to the grooves that have gone before. A song for sunset and sunrise – Ibizan ambience, with lilting keys, shanty samples, vocal questions and a melancholic horn refrain till end.

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