>>I'm listening to Trance Europe Xpress 4 and there is a wicked track by DJ >>Crystl - "Crystlized" that has a very LTJ Bukem sound to it but maybe a tad >>more aggressive then most of his output
Crystl dropped a couple of excellent 12"s that year (on Payday I think) - 183 and Perpetual Motion; both featured US MCs which gave them a greeat hip hop feel, much moreso than other dnb releases with MCs... 183rd featured Smiley the Ghetto Child who has done stuff with Guru, and Perpetual Motion featured Headrush who was the guy MCing in the street in one of the skits on David Holmes first album... I guess if I was looking for a good example of a dnb album that had a strong techno influence A Guy Called Gerald's Black Secret Technology would be the one I'd think of first... After that probably T-Power's "The Self Evident Truth of an Intuitive Mind" and "Waveform"... Hopefully I can come up with a longer list shortly... I know there is meant to be some kind of connection between Detroit and old skool - if I remember rightly Carl Craig checked 4-Hero and Shut Up And Dance on the BFC LP and had some contact with them in the early 90s... David
