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Rolando
From here to there and now [NRK Mix CD]

Rolando comes back with another mix for the greatest label in Bristol with a two CD offering. The first disc is vintage Rolando, veering from the hypnotic deepness of Carl Craig’s rework of Theo Parrish’s ‘Falling Up’ to the good time house of Hipp-E’s Dazed and Confused. The pinnacle is easily the bustling away of Quentin Harris’ tremendous ‘Let’s Get Young’, which is augmented through the jacking notes of Dj Sneak and taken away via the synergy of High Caliber. The mix is equally breathtaking elsewhere too, reigning in belters from Kerri Chandler, Trevor Rockliffe & Blake Baxter and a fair few of Rolando’s own tracks, the climax being the uplifting ‘In Transit’. He’s not doing anything overtly different or rewriting the rulebook, but its replete with all the sheen and glory you’d expect from one of Detroit’s finest.

Disc Two is much mellower, with the twinkling piano’s of Mailk Aston’s ‘Butterfly’ kicking things off before the mix veers into the abstract and deep. With sun-swept melodies from Derrick May’s illusion version of Sueno Latino and floaty melodies from the likes of David Alvardo, the highlight is Trackheadz's wondrous dub house fusion ‘Jah shall come’ which melts gorgeously into the shuffling funk-jazz houser of Tread’s ‘Opacity Omen’, complete with sparkly keys. By the time Vince Watson’s ‘Cycles’ rounds things off, its entertaining journey through an otherworldly sound of the mellower, though still as beautiful, end of the Techno spectrum. Once again, Rolando and NRK come up with the goods.

Jimmy Coultas (8/10)
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