Essentials

YMC | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yoshitoshi
• ASIN: B00005QC6L
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #502,962 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Phuture Vibes

2. Bluesless

3. Arrows

4. River People

5. Soma

6. Niteflite, Pt. 1-2

7. Guidance

8. Pheedback

9. Mist

10. Morning Lake

11. Cruisin'

12. Last Stop

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Endeavor primed right for an early-AM candlelight comedown, November 26, 2001

By 

Richard Diaz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essentials (Audio CD)

Making minimal, moody instrumental house, you ride a fine line between skillfully stripped down compositions and lifeless beat loops. Swedish duo YMC (by way of Deep Dish label Yoshitoshi Recordings) carefully avoid that trap - boring us - by packing each elongated piece with minute flutters and flares that subtly enhance their ideas.

Lively and lovely, "Bluesless" proves breathtaking, snips of sax and chimes floating around a forlorn, rippled vocal. "Nightlife", with low-key shine and ambient dips, soothes like an aural bubble bath. The remaining tracks don't always match these moments, yet the full seventy-five minute effect of minor chords, simmering beats, and percolating semi-peaks ("Morning Lake") form an artist endeavor primed so right for an early-AM candlelight comedown. Well done.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique and futuristically brilliant..., April 15, 2007

By 

C. Jones (Lauderhill, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essentials (Audio CD)

This is one fascinating CD. The sounds are housey but they are not at the same time. Fast paced and beautiful with charming vocals on some and hypnotic grooves on many of the others. I work out to it all the time and I really don't know how to describe it other than genius.