So is Great Wall any good? I have no idea. I might say that I love this thing and dance music/remix fiends may tell me I'm full of it (or, the other way around.) There are only three tunes here that I'm familiar with: David Gahan's "Dirty Sticky Floors", Madonna's "Hollywood" and Bjork's "Pagan Poetry". I'd have to give the nod to the Bjork track (since I love the original so much.) The rest of the program is definitely full of inner-organ-wiggling dance music (including one track, "Hypnotised", in which Oakenfold remixes Oakenfold.) I do like the nice mixture of the atmospheric sound and slammin' beats...knots of tension are allow to build and scatter (is that important at the club?)
Great Wall isn't gonna make me head out to the clubs anytime soon, but I think it can proudly take its place on my shelf next to the Photek, Squarepusher and Propellerheads CDs.
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
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