Just the fact that this guy is on his 4th album about searching for the sunrise generates at least a modicum of respect, at least in my mind. For true heads and dancers and groovers and seekers of out of body executive knowledge there’s nothing like the beats and the people and the sound and the energy in an outside environment, and that feeling when the sun begins to creep up over the mountain. It builds up for some time, there’s a slight shift in the dark, you’re sweat is suddenly a little warmer, the bodies in motion pick up a slight energy shift, the people sleeping in their bags become aware of something even in the back of their minds and corporeal forms hibernating for a small nonce. Slowly, surely, it gets lighter, and whatever valley, forest, desert, backyard, beach you’re in suddenly becomes a place of birth, a new beginning, and whatever thoughts you’ve been pondering deep in the belly of the truth of the music becomes validated, ensured, whatever decisions you’ve come to, wrong or right, are lent a certain clarity.
This is a two-disc effort, and it starts of with a nice heavy beat, not too cluttered, a fitting female vocal, a little reminiscent of the republica front-girl (remember them?), maybe a little cleaner. I think a good way to draw people into what you’re doing when it comes to electronic music is slip a nice subtle vocal in there, in spurts and gags, get a humanity into it. After that, abandon at your will. Maybe I’m just saying it because this one seems to work so well.
On the 4th track (first disc) he’s got another female vocalist, and again, it works perfectly. Now, I shouldn’t be, per se, praising Tiesto for the music itself, as I think this is just a giant DJ set, but the selection of the tune, and maybe it’s an accapella track over a beat, so, I should be praising him, and am. In fact, the only parts of the record I don’t enjoy up to this point are where he lets the same beat bang out a little too long, which I know is known as “transition” or “let the kids dance” or “that person is jellyfishing,” ok not that one, but, well, I need stuff changed up. That could be why a lot of dance music just rattles my shine box. That or I’m an impatient asshole.
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