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DJ Jaspa - A Long Time Coming

12:46 - October 27, 2004

by Watts

This is the Canadian DJ and producer DJ Jaspa's debut album. Promising an ambient blend of progressive, house and trance you can't help but be intrigued. Read on to find out about this new album...

DJ Jaspa is currently making a name for himself as one of Canada's hottest underground progressive DJs, playing a blend of his own and other progressive tracks. He started his musical career as a hip-hop artist and this, along with his passion for producing, love for mixing and gradual movement into ambient and progressive works makes for a lot of experience through several differing genres. All this has culminated in DJ Jaspa's debut album, A Long Time Coming.

A Long Time Coming

1) A Long Time Coming
(Feat. Solenne Posson)
The first track on the album, which shares its name, is a gentle introduction to whats to come. A short, airy track with smooth synth notes and some softly spoken French vocals which add mood and a touch of emotion.

2) Get Into Da Groove
(Feat. Ian Moar)
The tempo picks up here as an easy beat and percussion tap away. Theres more of the nice synth chords / ambience backing things up but this time they have a more positive feel to them and work very well to up the pace and get things moving. Some more electronic elements feature towards the end of the track, as does a coarse bass guitar which adds a different flavour of drive to the track.

3) Home Alone
Things die down to an eerie ambience in preparation for this spacey and trippy track. A quicker but very light beat carries the track with some faint strings playing high notes in the background. Soft arpeggios add an almost acid / psy-trance feel and provide underlying energy and a sense of intrigue.

4) DJ Rhapsody
(Feat. DJ Terence "Big T" Mazon)
A fade to silence is broken by some coarse bassy notes and a cool little vocal sample. Jittery backing chords and an array of sfx are kept in check by a chunky, broken beat and some gentle ambience. As the track plays, you notice the main focal point is the scratching of the initial vocal sample, which increases in technicality as the track progresses. Its very well done and fits excellently with the surrounding sounds which in turn are gradually increasing in intensity. The result is an interesting and intense track which does well in capturing your attention.

5) Love Me
(Feat. Tracy Thomas)
Track number 5 kicks right off into something far more trancey - a steady beat and hi-hats accompanied by some thick and truly lush sounding pads which dominate the sound and provide a solid base for the rest of the track to work on, with and for. Not usually one for vocal tracks, I do like this one. The vocals sung here seem to really belong to this track and sound just right. And those pads, fantastic.

6) Wonderful World
(Feat. Tracy Moar & DJ Jaspa)
We then hear the sound of rain and some mellow synths begin to bring in a slower, more emotional track. A breakbeat is the basis for this track and things are kept minimal. Dreamy female "Oohs" and "Aahs" provide the perfect backing for Jaspa's spoken vocal part. The final touch to this moving piece is the introduction of a guitar which adds to the overall melody. A really nice track.

7) Let's Dance
(Feat. Solenne Posson)
Again the pace isn't kept at one level for long because this track starts to push out a steady but soft beat and we're back into something more trance like. Lush pads back those arpeggios and the track just floats along in true progressive form. There is a long break in the middle featuring just the pads and more French spoken female vocals. The whole French aspect is an element in itself that really stands out, more so than any other language. Towards the end of the break, a melodic hook builds up and begins to play - its a great little melody and it sounds very familiar to me, but I'm not sure where from. We're also treated to a little bit more scratching here too.

8) Music For Da Soul
The penultimate track of this so far top notch album drops the pace slightly but keeps things steady, adding a chunkier, housey feel due to the more prominent percussion that gets involved. Like a lot of the other tracks, it builds in a very progressive and ambient way, blending between beats and ambience very well. This track takes you to a nice level and holds you there right until the end where it fades out into the final track...

9) Until Next Time
(Feat. Solenne Posson)
Soft dabbles of synth notes and pads bring in something similar to the initial track. Softly spoken English vocals in Solenne's great accent coax you down and finish the album off very well indeed.

Conclusion:
An excellent blend of the softer elements of electronic music, A Long Time Coming is a lovely album to listen to. After being taken in and out of the progressive, ambient and trancey sounds, it left me wanting it to go on for longer.