This is an awesome week for club monsters, those epics which you know are going to slaughter dancefloors all summer long and played long afterwards as stone-cold classics. It comes as no surprise that Paul Woolford, currently one of the hottest names in electronic showbiz, is behind an outing which really does take the dance music form above and beyond with mesmerising 13 minute remix of ‘Caspian Man’. When asked to select an item from Breakout Audio’s catalogue to remix Paul picked ‘Caspian Man’ and set upon it like a man possessed. He admits he just couldn’t stop and who would want him to have as the track establishes a crunching groove [with shades of Time’s ‘Stone’], dominant instrument being some deft piano playing which starts as an incendiary propellant riff but gets more out there as the track progresses, planting that disembodied feel over a gamut of counter-riffs and melon-friendly effects. He says it’s influenced by avant garde pioneer Steve Reich: not the usual name to drop but this sort of outside influence is exactly what the music needs to push its limits. On a basic level the new ‘Plastic Dreams’ but this jawdropping excursion is so much more. This is not to belittle the deeply-atmospheric chattering tech-house of the original and definitely not the Nyra Remix, which strips down and toughens up to do the business direct to the lunchbox but Woolly’s just turned in a rare master-piece and I can’t imagine the effect on a mass audience.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs