DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Cedar / Biowire – Equinox / Karizma

1999

For our next release on Good Looking Records, the pharmacy is fully stocked for the ultimate in chill pill handouts. Today’s release is the first on Good Looking to feature two separate artists claiming a side each. Let’s dive into the worlds of two producers who were ready to break out the eggs in the nest and claim a golden ticket to Good Looking. 

   We reviewed Jon Schorah, also known as Cedar, when we were on Deep Rooted Records. That was the deep house side of GLR which we covered some time back. He was also featured on Earth Volume 7. Before all those, he had today’s release leading up to the Millenium. If you have the series of Progression Sessions you will be very familiar with the track ‘Equinox’ on Side A as it was the opening tune on the very first Progression Sessions in the series. Once it begins you can’t help but recall 1000’s of memories on hearing it again, and if you can get through the whole tune without hearing those cutting chop-ins from Bukem with Intense – Eastern Promise, then well done. Ha ha! 

    ‘Equinox’ is one hell of a tune. The ultimate in tranquil anesthetics with a window to the heavens. The way the music melts the backbone and workings within you, conjures up a malleable and ever changing view of things. It is yet again the imagery that we get from Nick Purser on the main cover that hits the nail on the head with the flotation of plasmic amoeba forms transferring energy from fore to aft, while reflecting the lights and sounds through its translucent state. The music was capturing the most vivid and distant images at this stage, in parallel with the way the music was broadening its scope worldwide.

    Biowire is J. Crosse. Here, we have just a one off on Good Looking and I don’t really know much about his producing after this? He’s on Souncloud, as a ‘Breaks, Bass & Bleeps’ producer but don’t know any more. 

  This track ‘Karizma’ on Side AA is a superb little tune, and like the A Side, was featured on that first Prog Sessions volume from Bukem. There’s a great live energy in the track that reminds me a lot of some of the ILS (Axis) tunes with the busy and live percussion, details in the rhythms, and that essence of sunshine that descends across your day. 

This release will always hold a special place.