If you talk about the new breed of Frankfurt, Germany based artists it can't be done without mentioning Sascha Dive. With the foundation of his own imprint Deep Vibes Recordings in 2006 and numerous releases of deepest house on labels like Oslo and Cécille he quickly found himself on the olymp of contemporary dance music producers while DJ'ing all the relevant clubs across Europe.
Production-wise, Dive is nothing if not straightforward: track titles veer towards the descriptive: 'Deep in Rhythm', 'DEep', 'Deepest America' and the music is similarly functional.
The Album Restless Nights
is featured in Update #044:
Essential 2010 Albums Now On Sale
We wish you an amazing 2011! To start the celebrations we have compiled 200 of our favourite albums of 2010 for our biggest ever New Year Sale!
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The Album Restless Nights
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Ninja Tune XX, Flying Lotus, Radio Slave
September has come and gone and left us with more great releases than there's pebbles on a beach. First and foremost this has been the month of Ninja Tune. The legendary label celebrates its 20th anniversary with two massive compilations of exclusive material, more...
The Album Restless Nights
is featured in Update #030:
Sascha Dive, Axel Boman, Jichael Mackson
This time around our 'House Music Special' might well be called a 'Krauthouse Special'. Germany's house music producers and labels have seemingly overtaken their US-based colleagues, at least regarding productivity and sheer quantity of output.
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The Album Restless Nights
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The Album Restless Nights
was reviewed:
For the past couple of years Sascha Dive has been carefully negotiating between the house music underground and Ibiza club floors, between the sound's raw and authentic US roots and the polished production style of his peers. Few people have managed to pull this off as convincingly as Sascha Dive, whose music feels as little out of place on strictly underground labels such as Workshop as it does big-shot imprints as Cocoon. Dive's home base is of course his own Deep Vibes label, which has racked up an impressive catalogue of well over a dozen releases in only three years.
Given Sascha Dive's productivity it is almost a surprise that we haven't been treated to a proper full-length album any time sooner, but 'Restless Nights' certainly makes up for this with its 10 deep and moody house cuts. Deep percussive grooves and spoken word narratives run through the album as a common thread, with the energetic 'The Jam' and the tribal jazz of 'African Monster' standing out as polar opposites on the intensity scale.
'Restless Nights' is an impressive effort for its versatility and sophistication, and our favourite, the reduced dub house track 'Drums Of The Jungle', is just the icing on the cake of what is a finely nuanced house music album.
