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Techno Legend Oliver Lieb has his own impressive and instantly recognisable style. Not quite trance, not quite techno, but all dance. Licensed now to Magik Musik because of the Massive support from Tiesto. Is The Ambush lying in wait to float your boat, light your ring and stuff your turkey? Read on!
Support- ** Tiesto, Marco V, Tony Burt Playlist **
Acapulco 136bpm
It looks as though Lieb’s been on holiday and bought us back a gem! Acapulco is tough techno loops, sublimated with floaty, dream state trance layers. Which gives it this amazing made for a club sound. Ah yes…the Trademark Hihats are there as always, building up and forcing you to be carried away on a trip to Dance world!
He’s created a real hypnotic track here, as well as keeping it very dancey.(A hard feet) This track, if you’ve not heard it, first of all, why? You must, you must….now….and secondly contains a wonderful vocal chant loop that opens in the break of the tune, some 2 minutes in, effect laden and rises with subtlety to full effect. Here Lieb adds drum loops to the chant and dreamy layers but never adds full snares, another trait to his style, adding heavy bass and snare loops to the mix adding a real tribal drumming effect which sounds so abrupt but never amateurish.
World Class Techno!
Madras 134bpm (See Links for extended sound sample)
Oliver’s following the ways of the Brit and after a good bit of Clubbing in Acapulco, he’s hitting the curry! Good lad, just what we like to hear!
Madras first off, has the unfortunate business of being the B side to a mightily Hyped A.(Hyped for a good reason I might add) But this really does hold it’s own as a techno track. It’s dark, deep and has one hell of a baseline and as a matter of fact, I actually love the bass and loops on this track better than those on the A, but where as Acapulco has the all conquering Chant to set it aside, Madras comes across as almost forgettable in the sequence stakes and more of an excellent club filler. With a baseline from the books of Mauro Picotto’s Verdi or Komodo (not Save our Soul) and a subtle, almost lost organ synth, which just pops in and out of the loops for time to time, this is not for the faint hearted or a trance only buff.
Conclusion:
Trance fans will most likely hate this record, but Lieb’s style is a snare free, multi layered, hi hat dream land for techno fans and here he’s produced some stunners. The A is a masterclass of subtle and craft whilst living up to the hype. But once that dies down, flip the record over and discover that the B should be recognised for being every bit a masterclass, just in it’s own ‘more Clubland’ way.
With this record the man they call ‘God’ is in Techno Heaven
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