- This is a limited edition 10” remix of ‘Enjoy the Moments’, a warm, if somewhat simplistic and blocky, bit of chord techno from Shinedoe’s Sound Travelling album. They make shiny, effective Detroit in the Lowlands, and while Shinedoe’s original wasn’t a particular great model off the factory line (check Joris Voorn’s ‘No Revolution’ for this year’s Mercedes Benz), it did have a certain confidence that comes from knowing where it stood.
The Swiss, on the other hand, have to make things up a bit. As a DJ, Ripperton mixes and matches different styles – neo trance, deep & minimal mostly - but that openmindedness just sounds like a lack of focus here. The first five minutes wanders, changing feel each time a new element is introduced, as if Ripperton didn’t quite know what to do with the original. But don’t turn it off – there’s a very useful rally at the end when the track ditches the original completely to become a cauldron of flanged rubberband psychedelia reminiscent of Serafin’s ‘Starship Discoteque’ or early Luciano. Come to think of it, that is kinda Swiss.
Switzerland 3, Holland 2.
TracklistA Enjoy The Moments (Ripperton Rmx)