DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Makoto – Believe In My Soul

2007

Plate 3: Side E / F

We carry on today with the last plate on Makoto’s LP, ‘Believe In My Soul’ and ignite a couple of very strong pieces of music.

   ‘Free Your Mind’ on Side E, carries on the style of full on liquid D&B from this year. The beats on this track do have an elevated, frantic layering which picks up the energy really well. We slip into the cooler slacks in the breakdown and then when the main drop kicks it does a great job of hitting the sweet spot of sound. This is by far, the best one on this six-disc album. It’s full of movement, style and puts a gleaming wax seal on the delivery of the tune. The bassline is such a soft, yet heavy sound that broods and murmurs under the tapestry of the track, it really accentuates the sound. Hats off for this piece of full-on, drum and bass niceness! 

   Last up on this album is a track written and produced by Fumitake Tamura, also known as Bun. ‘Let Me Love You’. This was also the final track on LTJ Bukem’s Progresssion Sessions 10, from 2004 which tells you how early he had hold of that one. Oh, Bukem and his secret box of dubs. This has one of those hooks that absorbs through your mind and basks inside for a long long time. It also seals the ratings as the best 12” plate on this album. A full on composition of barreling beats, a beautiful bassline and oozing with a battery of flavors. Click the controls for this superb track and get that hook in. It’s a serenade that sells this album, 100%. Big up Makoto and to Bun for this velveteen joy! 

   That concludes the last of the Good Looking artist albums. Tomorrow we’ll feature a CD album only, like last Friday, which has Bukem mixing some of the tunes which you’ll find on the White Label series, many of which we covered during the 12” single reviews. We’ll not be diving into the album fully, more a scan across it and one that sits ideally on a Friday. 

    Big ups to all that read, comment and contribute to the reviews. The drive to keep doing this comes from so many of you, and my own insane quest to publish the words that arrive during my listening of the music. I was thinking this week and realizing that my DJ’ing works in similar ways, the zone I fall in when playing. During DJ sets I sink into a mindset that probably gives the impression I’m not having fun. Rest assured that my mind is usually thinking about future tracks and sitting with the music playing, loving every second, and working on the journey. Like this writing, I take it seriously and hope this comes through on both forms of expression. Hopefully I get out playing again with my vinyl, soon. 

   My blog is rolling. Come strolling through its pages.