Review
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The focus of CD1 does not lie in celebrating only the Best Of tracks, but rather in tracks from the past six years which have made an impact on clubs and dancefloors worldwide, but still have a story to tell. It all begins with Chile-born Alejandra Iglesias aka Dinky, whose ‘Acid In My Fridge’ has taken her into the top league of producers. Lee Curtiss, Ryan Crosson, Seth Troxler and Shaun Reeves – the Michigan collective Visionquest – turn the musical masterpiece into a marvel of fragmented dub techno in a breakbeat disguise, where the 303 takes over the controls again in the end anyway. Subsequently, Toronto’s SCI & TEC ambassador Carlo Lio pumps maximum distortion into Dubfire / Huntemann’s ‘Diablo’, while Amsterdam’s Detroit resident Steve Rachmad brilliantly purges Joel Mull’s club hit ‘Harmonautic String’ of 2007, and the Scottish ‘Consumed’ producer Gary Beck unfolds presumably the mightiest bass on this CD. All this plus collaborations featuring Guy Gerber and Kollektiv Turmstraße, Roman Flügel and Martin Buttrich, Tim Green and Argy, and Paul Ritch and 2000 And One, amongst others. On CD2, Cocoon newcomer Patrick Kunkel goes one better with a mix of 20 tracks from the label’s history. With Roman Flügel’s ‘Geht’s Noch’, Koletzki’s ‘Mückenschwarm’, Timo Maas’ ‘Subtellite’, the Dubfire remix of Minilogue’s ‘Jamaica’ and last year’s ‘The Secret’ by Joris Voorn, the mix makes absolutely clear how deep the marks are that Cocoon has left in the acoustic memory of the club scene.