Roger Sanchez: Release YourselfVol. 6 | Stealth November 14,
2007 10:55:43 AM
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This two-disc volume in Roger Sanchez’s Release Yourself series begins with a “pre-party” CD that includes many worthy house tracks: DJ Leo’s steamy, delicately rhythmic “Sex in the Morning,” Patrick Green featuring Will Barnes’s “Shades,” Claude Von Stroke’s “Who’s Afraid of Detroit,” Joi Cardwell’s “Imperfect.” Tastier still are the mixes that he makes of these tracks, delicately at the beats’ most delicate moments. Sanchez is known for intense mixes and loud, massive rhythms; to hear him moving on kitten feet takes some getting used to. And though the set’s “party” disc does rise to the slamming intensity that he’s loved for, he takes a long, wayward route getting there. Still, digression and eclecticism are an integral part of Sanchez’s live sets, and fans who’ve seen him in action will feel right home as he moves from Brazilianism (Relight Orchestra & Margareth Menezes’s “Uma história de Ifa”) to hip-hop house (the Nightcrawlers’ “Push the Feeling On” and Bebe Brown versus Phunk Investigation’s “Dark Beats”) to electro (Laidback Luke’s “Hypnotize”) and tech house (Agent Greg versus Audiopunch’s “Symphony of Love”) on his way to intense, deep, black beats, from Noir’s declarative, powerful “All About House Music” to Suzanne Palmer’s transcendent “Free My Love.” Sanchez tests the limits of the tough, the frantic, and the joyful. Fans expect no less.
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- Why Dan Grabauskas might actually fix the T — if he can keep his job
- The debate-defining posts of Rhode Island activists wield influence beyond their readership
- Reconciling the irreconcilable
- Boston Lyric Opera’s Seraglio, BU’s Barbiere di Siviglia, Andy Vores’s No Exit, the BPO’s Bartók and Brahms
- Keep your hands on the pole and not on your neighbor’s ass, bucko.
- Never mind its tough-girl alt-porn feminism: SuicideGirls has already moved on to a new generation
- Daniel McCusker’s ‘tHisTHat’
- The potent poetry of Sweet Disaster
- 50 years after the Boston Braves' departure, it’s worth asking: did the wrong team leave town?
- In the real world, funding is only an issue; politics is the most persistent problem
- You, too, can learn to tap into people's unconscious through hypnosis
- The democratic race is getting messy, which can only mean one thing: it’s time to recruit Al Gore
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Victor Calderone at Therapy, March 1, 2008
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Valentine's Day at 33 Lounge
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This Is Sander Kleinenberg | Ultra
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The return of Jeanne Mas
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DJ Deka’s sweet ride
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Evolve | Ultra
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Underworld and John Digweed, Bank of America Pavilion, September 15, 2007
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Jon Viera’s local Escuro label
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Montreal | Yashitoshi
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- Sly-Chi carve out Space on the dance floor
- Pterodactyl Takes Tokyo | Fly Casual
- Sub Pop
- Plus, Stink; Hootenanny; Let It Be (Deluxe Editions) | Rhino/Rykodisc
- Hot Like Wow | Tiger Trax
- Attack | Quarterstick/Touch and Go
- Mountain Battles | 4AD
- The GFAC series returns to its roots with Volume 7
- Giving Up the Ghost | 429
- Diary of an Afro Warrior | Tempa
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