DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Nookie / Intersperse / Soul Purpose / Pariah – Destiny / Time Out Of Mind / Falling / Second Nature

2002

Welcome to another week of Good Looking Records releases, as we move onward through this landmark label of music. I hope your weekend was a good one and you had plenty of top music to devour? I had a weekend away from the tunes which felt a bit odd, and only seems to have created more craving this coming week. That makes me extremely happy. 

   We have the second 12” in this double white label release, with the duo of Soul Purpose delivering the cosmic halo to place over the head with ‘Falling’ on Side A. Solo & Kymera (the two guys behind Soul Purpose), are back in the studio. As featured on Progression Sessions 7 mixed by Bukem, the tune captures a sound that keeps its standard within the bandwidth of atmospheric zest and encroaches on the liquid border fence. The Detroit style influences resonate within this tune. ‘Falling’ spins a creative twist into a very simple track, spurring on the movement that was to evolve into the sounds that were to become Liquid.

    ‘Second Nature’ on Side AA is a true beauty of tune. This is one of those tracks that grabbed the hammer and chisel, and chipped away at the originality and cracked the shell of catchy and thought evoking sound. It has a very similar blueprint to ‘Confessions’ in its ability to use so many sounds that stretch through the tune, providing the composition with a fascinating display of variation. The tech bleeps, twinkles and then the electric guitar drop, all keep that velvet bass line and trademark break (with end of bar twist as mentioned in the last Marc Pariah review), within this pristine bubble of

brilliance. 

A super little track this. 

     Tomorrow we roll back into some more single 12”s and we not roll onto the 60th release, but enter 2003. In the next couple of years, we hit about 6 single releases before the label stops for a bit. I’ll be dragging in some fellow GLR experts, when we reach it, as the reasons and rhymes get interesting. Somehow, the music pulls on through though, which is really all that matters, regardless of opinion.