Dave Seaman - Renaissance Masters Series, Vol. 10: Dave Seaman
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Artist: Dave SeamanEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Music Label: Renaissance Dance UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Not a Number - Dave Seaman, Ring, Sascha
- I Need Medicine - Dave Seaman, Fairley, Jacob
- Cowboys - Dave Seaman, Lodde, Paolo Albert
- Go Ahead - Dave Seaman, Alvarez, Angel Davi
- Patterns of Thought - Dave Seaman, Edison, Peter
- Mr. Decay - Dave Seaman, Boratto, Gui
- Godthab - Dave Seaman, Vassiloudis, Stelio
- Karatschai Lake - Dave Seaman, Fischer, Christian
- Harlem - Dave Seaman, Jayti
- Escalator - Dave Seaman, Chatterley, Andy
- It All Comes Together/Afterglow - Dave Seaman, Kleijn, E.
- I Am with You - Dave Seaman, Busker, Stefan
- Who Killed Sparky? - Dave Seaman, Coe, A.
- Waterh?lle - Dave Seaman, Sainz, Manuel Sofia
- Beautiful Burnout - Dave Seaman, Hyde, Karl
- The Coming - Dave Seaman, Heil, Johannes
- You Got tha Touch - Dave Seaman, Deluxe, Tim
- Memory Lane Refund - Dave Seaman, Dewandeler, Geoffro
- Trip to Amaltea - Dave Seaman, Groove Garcia
- Deadman - Dave Seaman, Solomun, Mladen
- Exuma - Dave Seaman, Sol, Criss
- Azora - Dave Seaman, Gabriel, Josh
- Blablabla - Dave Seaman, Popof & Nina
- Brain on the Side - Dave Seaman, Popof
- Keep Her Space - Dave Seaman, Stevens, Jamie
- Bakery/Stop the Revolution - Dave Seaman, Huntemann, Oliver
- Rekorder 10.2 - Dave Seaman, Rekorder
- No Trace - Dave Seaman, Robson, Bryan J
- Faithful Nights - Dave Seaman, Umek, Uros
Music reviews of Renaissance Masters Series, Vol. 10: Dave Seaman
Music Review: Who Said The Progressive Sound is Dead?
Rating: 4 Stars
It was a nice surprise listening to a mixed electronica album released in 2008 that wasn't from the minimal genre (or dump). I have a feeling I'm not alone in saying this? The last 2 years have been pretty diappointing in regards to my music collection with a slew of weak productions.
Leave it up to Dave Seaman to snub his nose at what is fashionable in the world of electronica and what is not...and fellow fans...in case you were wondering...progressive is not "in" anymore. We are becoming the new generation of electronica left-behinds. Soon we will be similar to the hoards of trance purists that fiercely hold on to ancient but familar sounds. Lucky for them they still have the likes of Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, and Paul Van Dyk who will never evolve/abandon their sound.
Although this album was given very high praise by fellow reviewers, I do not think it is a five star and/or Seaman's best. That honor still remains with his Renaissance Desire album.
Disc 1 shows a lot of early promise with its track selection, tempo, creativity and feel. Unfortunately it doesn't hold for the 66 minutes of the set. There are lulls here and there throughout the set, but most notably near the end. The set becomes very uninteresting for me during "I Am with You" by Sennh and "Who Killed Sparky?" by Sasha. It recovers with the final 2 closing tracks. You can never go wrong rounding out a set with a good remix of an Underworld track!
Disc 2 puts forward a completing different sound than the first. Many more trance overtones. Initially it had me pulled in hard. Again though, through unspiring track selections near the middle and at the end of the set (ie the last 4 tracks), disc 2 quickly loses its power over me. Sorry, just too many average tracks. Another good not great set by Dave Seaman.
It took me a long time to rate this CD. Although this album is a mixture of progressive and tech-house, I was so excited about hearing some good progressive sound again that I initially thought this album was amazing after my first listen. I knew that was my genre bias creeping in. Many listens later, I still like it...but neither disc is far from epic.
Disc 1 gets 4/5 stars, and disc 2, 3.5/5 stars.
I've also attached a review from RA which slaughters this album. Just to give readers who are considering purchasing this album a little more perspective.
RA REVIEW - 2.5/5 stars
"Renaissance flagship mix series Masters Series returns for a tenth installment with superstar DJ and former Mixmag editor Dave Seaman manning the decks. Musically, The Masters Series 10 is typical of the vein of progressive house Seaman has mined previously on mixes for Renaissance and Global Underground (labels he has been with since the beginning), although his tastes on the latest certainly reflect more modern trends. But fans of the type of fist pumping, melodic, peak hour prog that Seaman helped trademark will not be disappointed by any of these slight changes in style. In fact most will appreciate the peusdo psy-trance basslines or the more tribal elements he occasionally drops in discretely on both. But no matter how much Seaman gussies up the genre, it still sounds tired and generic, and that's a very hard hand to be dealt these days.
The main flaw of this mix is that it's just too, well, progressive. No matter how many edgy selections Seaman whips out in order to prove that he's moved beyond the confines of the genre, the style of mixing especially gives you a sinking sensation that you've been down this road before. On both discs, things start off well with top shelf selections (Apparat, Fairmont, and Dusty Kid on disc one, Solomun, Mugwump, and Tim Deluxe & Sam Obernik on disc two) before Seaman evaporates the goodwill he's built up by moving into the big room with a string of peak hour builders so cheesy and melodically overblown that you'll wonder if you've been teleported back to the late 1990s. It's the trademark prog house "journey" template of programming followed to the letter, but in 2008 it sounds more like a crutch than useful structure, and the result is sleep-inducing boredom. Not even the decent new Mark Knight remix of Underworld's `Beautiful Burnout' at the end of disc one will save you from la-la land.
In the end, The Masters Series 10 sounds like little more than a repackaged late 90s Global Underground mix or any of the numerous others Dave Seaman has already done for Renaissance in the past. In 2008 there are plenty of great new tracks out there to meet the needs of superstar jocks hankering to leave the mundane realm of progressive house, but Seaman plays it so conservatively it's bound to disappoint even genre diehards. Come on, Dave, make the big leap."
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