DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Blu Mar Ten – Everglades EP

1999

  It’s always crazy during the week and finding time to listen to the tunes, write the reviews and take the photos. It can be tough fitting everything in life in sometimes. If it wasn’t for the passion, therapeutic gains and way that this music makes me feel, I’d probably be little less regimented. As it is, things are rolling consistently and the reviews flowing.

    Resuming the ‘Everglades EP’ it’s onto the second plate in the release and the track on Side C, ‘Santur’. For those that had Progression Sessions 3 stuck in their car CD player (did I say stuck? Well I said it was stuck but it was more a case of “why change it?”) you’ll instantly recognize this classic. 

  This track seals up the whole essence of Blu Mar Ten’s vibe, as trundling beats, vacuum poaching, riff leading bass and musically infectious pads, take us out to a cooling piano in the breakdown.  It’s not just that Chris & Leo composed with the ideas and internal drive to make good music, it was more a case of unraveling their souls into the work. The music had something a little more complex and abstract than many of the artists out there making the Cosmik airwaves gleam in the skies. They tended to redirect the expectations and add in layers of extravagant detail, making each piece a mini masterpiece. 

   ‘Blush’ is the last track on this EP. Side D holds a very special fable of true love, beauty and sweet exfoliation of the mind. Take my hand and let’s walk across the eggshells of the torment and the sorrow and when we reach the banks of safety, this poetic jazz lullaby of tenderness will grip your other hand and whisper the soft air voices of freedom and peace. This EP holds such undeniably gifted pieces of music that it takes a while to even decompress from hearing the tunes on here. ‘Blush’ moves me in a way that will always hold my heart. 

   Blu Mar Ten. Breathtaking and untouchable. Real music from the soul.

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