Customer Reviews

Perfecto Presents: Type 01

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This new double CD mix from Seb has been in near constant rotation since I picked it up last week. It's a big step forward for Seb, from the tracklist to the mixing to the packaging- with everything he's done here, you can see he's trying to push his art forward. And hey, he totally pulls it off in my opinion.

I'd have to disagree with the reviewer below, when he says that this mix is not up to par with the GU or Renaissance mixes. He's totally correct in stating that this disc does not sound like most of those mixes- as it doesn't. It's just as good as some of my favorites from those labels- but just in a differenct way. Type does not have the smooth, melodic feeling that you get from a lof of those mixes- rather Seb here dips into a lot of darker, touger, acid-y house, and even some straight up breaks. Some if it is pretty, some if it has a retro acid-house feel, and some if it is quite electro-y. But I find this mix really strong from start to finish (disc 1 lags a bit at after track 1, but nothing too bad). But if you like stuff such as the tougher house sounds of Felix, Lawler, and Morillo, you will definately feel this mix.

Excellent stuff, can't wait for the next one.

p.s. seb's track under Reflekt on here is just massive.

I actually picked this cd up by accident. Had an amazon gift certificate decided to search through new releases in electronic and stumbled upon this. I own so many different mixes that there wasn't anything that would catch my attention. So I listend to the amazon sampler. hmm pretty good.

Now I got it and can't stop listening to it. What a great mix. Something I would love to hear in the club. Raise the bass up and blast it. Similar to Sander Klienenberg.

Its not too fast its not too slow its not too happy not too dark
its just right. Love it.

Damn this is great. After listening to Fabric 20 I decided to get more house music.

Now if this isn't house I don't know what this is but all I know this is some sick $hit!

At first it was kinda crazy cause I was expecting something like Fabric 20 but what I got instead was better.

CD1 is so great on track selection and mixed so great. (After the third time listening to this CD a finally saw the beauty of it. And I was left speechless).

CD2 Damn he starts with a great song in the beginning which grabs your attention and sensation to dance and almost to the whole album he will keep mixing good.(But in the middle it kinda gets boring)

Verdict: 5.0 out of 5.0 This is great and you need to give this album a couple of spins before actually enjoying this. Seb mixes great on. Buy this I loved this one!

Once Again Seb Brings You Some Outstanding Trance, House, Progressive and Breaks. If your not a hardcore DANCE lover this album is NOT for you. If your a hardcore DANCE fan and a Seb Lover this is right up your ally! THIS ALBUM IS NOT COMMERICAL!! Don't expect Trance Party USA garbage.

A++ Seb Great Job

I had only heard a few of Seb Fontaine's work but it wasn't until I got this album and a few remixes that I realized how good he is. He's in the likes of Tall Paul and Judge Jules. Similar style but his own mixtures and very clubby. I was pleasantly surprised by the CD, a live recording of Seb Fontaine would probably be a great album.

What initially attracted me to this album were the incredibly infectious, hard-hitting beat-loops which caught me completely off guard as I listened to it at the record store. I decided to buy it, and I'm not REGRETTING the decision, but there are a few more albums with such intensity (perhaps ISOS3? Solarstone's Destinations Vol. 1?) which I would have rather spent my money on. But, this CD is strong.

Fontaine leads us through a two-disc myriad of breakbeat, thumping dance music. If clubs wont play progressive, minimal, melodic/vocal and tech house/trance, this is next in line. But dont mistake that: In its own right, this CD in every way belongs in a dark, anonymously misty and heart-thumping bass filled room crowded with Hi-NRG ravers and casual dancers alike.

Particularly on disc 1, however, the mix selections could have been just... well, just better. I HATE the track 'tweakin' (Saeed Mix), with its repetitive and glammed up song line, 'we, be tweakin, like every single weekend we be tweakin'. There are only so many times I can hear that line, in one single song, before having to skip ahead. My sanity depends on it. I liked the opening Noho Porn Stars' "More Intensity" which flows nicely into Rene Amesz's "Back Into the Funk", but unfortunately the antecedent to that track is "Tweakin'". I cant get past that fallacy of a track in its inopportunely placed location! I have tried.

I'll say a few short words on disc 2, because in terms of elaborative criticism there isnt much to be said. One standout track, and whose remix I really enjoyed by Fontaine, was Sander Kleinenberg's "My Lexicon" [Stef & 16 Bit Lolita Remix], as I am always excited to see it appear after being introduced to it on one of Sasha's Global Underground releases (Ibiza, I believe it was...). Otherwise, a great combination of breakbeat, hard-hitting and sometimes melodic trance without as much annoying vocal intrusion as the first disc. A good buy, especially if you need something accessible to bring to a party centered around consistently danceable music. I'd probably include this disc along with The Politics of Dancing 2 ~ Paul van Dyk and maybe Emersons GU015: Uruguay. I'm not saying these releases sound alike at all; merely that they could concievably serve the same purpose when proposed for a party; that is, to get people funkified and in the mood to party!

~Lex

A good exemplification of hard house here. I'm kinda impressed although like another review it reminds me of Sander K, maybe because he was just in my player. Some tracks are borderline tribal with the drums banging, but overall, a hard house album for the pleasant ear. Cool vocal interludes. The second disc displays originality and it blew me off my toes. Especially with the tracks Outrowz "Wrong!" and Sander K's "My lexicon".

Disc 1: 3.5 stars
Disc 2: 5 stars

Be prepared to warehouse style. This set takes you to so many adventures. Well done Seb, it is been a long time for me that i did not hear a set like this. This album will be around my classics "definitely".

The best album of 2005.

And second place goes to deep dark mix of "Anthony Pappa - Balance 006".

As a whole these cd's are not Seb's best work. But if you like the 'commercial' sound of Oakie then you will love it. He has definately replaced a lot of his regular funk and edge for some atmosphere and POPie baselines. The standouts on cd1 are "Tweakin", and Saeed and Palash's "Champion "which by the way is a bangin track. Cd2's standouts are #4 "wrong" and #5 "Lexicon".

As always Seb's mixing is utterly flawless, i would almost say that all of his cd's are laid out by a computer if i haden't seen him spin personally. Definately has its funky and 'chunky' moments but not often. I know that all artist have to move foreward or get left behind but we have enuf Oakies in the world.

If a house music set is like a freight train, the individual cars linked together to form a continuous unit, then this recording is that train on the front page of the evening news, under the headline "Train Derails Outside Houston, 35 Dead". If the stories that make up a record are like the storeys of a structure, layered upon each other to make up a cohesive whole, then Type O1 is that building immediately after demolition, with the dust cloud left in its wake still blotting out the sun and filling the lungs of anyone nearby with asbestos death. If a DJ mix is a fabric of songs interwoven into a sonic tapestry, then Seb Fontaine's mixing is like taking that tapestry, covering a chair with it, and then placing it into a room for 300 hyperactive kittens to use as a scratching post.

I cannot possibly think of enough unflattering analogies for this utter piece of garbage. The URB reviewer is out of his or her pea-sized mind, I'll say that much. I actually like quite a few of the tracks on this release, and I'll add the Alex Neri and "Resonate" to the ones already mentioned. However, those (as well as the others mentioned) fall under the label of "other people's records", and that's all this compilation has to offer. Seb Fontaine's presence adds so little to this mix that it seems a waste of ink to put his name on the cover. Beat-matching does not "mixing" make, and the fact is these tracks don't mix at all. Each is so jarringly different from the previous, and so unsubtly mixed into the previous, that it seems a waste to bother beat-matching them at all -- Oakenfold could have saved a few bucks by sending Seb home and releasing this as an individual-tracks CD.

Things do pick up a bit at the end of the second CD (starting from the Neri track; abruptly ending with Jay-Dee), but even those don't make up for a first-half that sounds like someone randomly switching radio stations every couple of minutes. Stay far, far away.