DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Q Project – Space-link / Radar

1999

As we begin our 7th full week of Good Looking reviews, the quality continues to show up and more artists join the label. I hope the weekend has been a good one and the good tunes entered your days? 

   Today brings us to an artist who had already had a hair raising release on Looking Good Records back in 1995, with ‘Instrumental’ which we’ll review when we reach the label, and also (with Paul ‘Spinback’) the Total Science release on GLR 022. Jason Greenhalgh was a non-stop, studio machine in the 90s, and as this decade of music was coming to a close, he had to sneak in today’s production. Of all his work, this one fades a little in comparison, and I don’t mean that it’s not good, more a case of a mid set breather that bridges gaps that you may not realize. The output stands its ground magnificently. 

   ‘Space-link’ drops temptations on the plate of desires in a mellow, futuristic fashion which sums up the elegance that Q put out. We have here on Side A the mechanics and industrial qualities mixing with the transcending lure of the deepest realms of music. This tune doesn’t always leap out of the shelves much, which is now making me a little ashamed as there is a heap of quality in this floating air of heavenly, molecule doused sweetness. The art of the majestic made to look like a walk in the park by one of the best studio technicians of the drum and bass world. 

    On Side A is ‘Radar’ and the attention to the beats continues with a seriously impressive and thought evoking journey. The way this tune collects the layers of ideas and sounds surrounding that basic synth riff is a marvel. Then those warm pads that sit as a beacon from the core of the tune, signal the stray communications, vacuuming up the wayward vibrations and funneling everything perfectly into this ever-so clever piece of music. Hearing this tune again has made sure I leave the spine of the sleeve sticking out a little more, as it needs more rotations in my life. I’m sure yours too. 

So, Nick, is the image of solar panels on a roof? Or something linked to the title/s of the tunes? 

A big respects to Jason. Those tunes just never stop, and never will stop hitting the mark.