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Steve Lawler returns with his Lights Out Installment Three, which should not disappoint you, if you love dark, dirty and downright filthy music, check this out!
GU Lights Out 3 – Mixed by Steve Lawler (Global Underground)
It is finally here, the 3rd volume in the much loved series called “Lights Out”. Steve Lawler, who really needs no introduction continues his deep, dark and dirty version of house music and some would say it stretches into tribal house but heck with the labels. Anyway Steve Lawler got his start in 2000 with his single “Rise In”, his Cream Residency, playing Ibiza and his Nubreed 3 compilation. Since then, he has toured the world over playing his deep, dark and dirty twisted tribal house sound to the masses. He runs Harlem Trax and he is working on his own artist album as we speak. So he brings the final (are we sure there will not be a fourth?) installment of Lights Out 3 on GU.
Disc 1
Lights Out Intro 1
Ben Wigan – Wait
Nick K – Attack Mars!
Fred Everything and 20 for 7 featuring Vanessa Baker – Friday (Trentemoller Mix)
J&S Project – Hit
Swain and Snell – Destiny
Neverdogs – Moltobeat
Livio & Roby – Out of Bass
Danielle Tignino presents Rice & Pea’s – Drop Big Bombs
F.E.D.O – Happy Days Don’t Stop (Fedo Orange Mix)
Wawa – Flamenco (Steve Lawler Lights Out Edit)
Livio & Roby – Bitter Sweet (Terrace Mix)
Alex McCulloch – Moogment
The Skeleton Key – The Conjure (Steve Lawler Remix)
Disc 2
Lights Out Intro 2
Matthias Heilbronn – Like This
Anja Schneider – Creaky Thoughts (Original Mix)
Lutzenkirchen – Daily Disco (Original Mix)
Mono – Let’s Go
Alex Dolby – Obesessive Sound
Drax and Golding featuring Taariq – ABC
Suicide Sports Club – I Don’t Know (King Unique Remix)
Criss Source – Hugs N’ Kisses
Blendbrank – Metro Kiev (Ricky Ryan Edit)
Saints and Sinners – Pushin Too Hard (Ricky Ryan Edit)
Swain and Paris – What is This?
Axwell – Feel The Vibe (Till The Morning Comes) (Seamus Haji Edit)
Stu Hirst – Rhymique (Grayson Shipley Re-Edit)
Right from the intro, you instantly are immersed into the deep, dark and dirty world of Steve Lawler. Disc One takes you more on the electro side of percussive dirty house with some unsigned artists. Lawler himself calls it “Afterhours” and its easy to see why here with some nasty house with grubby basslines and drums, he never leaves them out. It shows that Lawler has expanded on his sound, I’ve seen him three times live and everytime, he seems to have added something else to his tribal sound. You see him play for eight hours, he won’t play solid tribal, he will mix just about everything that he wants in.
Lawler seems to have added what everyone is playing more of, which is electro house, which I loathed at the start but I’m beginning to enjoy it more. This CD gives you Trentemoller, who seems to be remixing just about everything. Lawler gets going with some dirt tinted house music and he throws in the odd drums but when he reaches the filthy Drop Big Bombs on his own Harlem Records, then things start to get going and straight after that, we have another nasty track by FEDO that uses the famous “Women Beat Their Men” chorus and if you want to hear that in its full glory, grab Beyer’s Essential Underground 9. The CD goes into more electro mode till Lawler’s remix of Conjure ends the CD, which is downright filthy. It is about damn time that we got more dark, dirty and just plain nasty filthy music.
Disc Two begins with the trademark Lawler introduction that seems to be his hallmark of late. You get a sense from the beginning that this is going to be even more filthy and it seems that my internal filthmeter has gone through the roof. Here he have some nasty electro, which could have been much dirtier but I’m not one to complain that much because Lawler has been responsible for some of the greatest club nights of my life and Nubreed Three is still one of the best tribal CDs of all time. You see Matty “2Deep” Heilbronn on this CD and it seems that Lawler goes thru German electro for the next few songs but then about track eight, the compilation really hits its stride.
For years, King Unique have been some of the brightest and smartest producers around but when they got their dirty little mitts on the new Brancaccio and Aisher under their alias “Suicide Sports Club”, this CD goes from laidback dirtiness to podium dirtiness. The vocal is more infectious than any disease going and the bassline is just utter dirt. This will give some of the dark, dirty and downright filthy fanclub members like myself, a complete cardiac. Ricky Ryan’s 2 edits are up after another filthy track, I like both edits, the first track was one that I had not heard much of but it is certainly pumping. The main draw is his re-edit of Sinners and Saints’s Pushing Too Hard, which is almost techno in places.
The original was infectious and Ryan certainly keeps the best parts at times but it is far more creepy than the original. The next two tracks certainly give it that final lift and the last track which is the Grayson Shipley re-edit of Rhymique, which kicks ass. Lawler is certainly known for his intros but he is also known for his endings on his CDs.
Conclusion:
Lawler brings you the usual dark, dirty and filthy but this compilation is more electro house than tribal house, which does disappoint me but it certainly goes the DDF route and coupled with some downright nasty tracks, this certainly makes me a happy man.
Get it and if you don’t already have Nubreed III, track it down as well.
Out Oct 3 and Oct 4, check Globalunderground.co.uk for the release date in your neck of the woods.
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