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Stephen Cole: Apollo (Continuous Album Mix) - Base Industry Records

Apollo is an eleven-track album that has a great range of material. It offers a little bit for everybody, starting off with a great opener, The Landing. This is a short atmospheric track that speaks with great sound and expanse, though it comes in at 2:22, the short track really hits the mark for the introduction to the album. The second track is the tech house thriller Obelisk. It starts off a clean drum line and moves into a hypnotic bass with a moving melody that weaves in and out through the break, finishing with the strong drum line that opened the track. The next two are more tech-house in vibe. The first of these tracks is Parabol, it starts with a shuffling percussion line, then into a rumbling bass line, and finally a rolling synth line that moves throughout. Ooh Wee is a house rhythm track complete with soulful female vocals and heavy percussive accents, a great early night track for filling the dance floor. This leads me to On The Jazz. This chuggy techno offering has great elements from the beginning, throbbing bassline and rich percussion, a mid-range melody and entrancing rolling bass that evolves throughout the track. Next on the line is Letting Go, this militant techno song is once again percussion laden with riding rhythms through the break with an acid line that builds over the track to a crescendo and then releases into a pulsating bass drum and baseline. The namesake of the album is up next, Apollo. Beautiful breakbeats, bassliness, drops and half-time rhythms! One of the stars of the L.P., this is what he is known for and really what he does best! Jack up and Hell Yeah are both stormers with great style and 4 to the floor rhythms and builds. The kicker on both of these is the breaks and classic synth sounds that end up in the break. The later of the two, Hell Yeah being the stand out with Orb-esque stabs filling the break! Great option for middle of the night and banging it out! Back to basics we go for Breaker One 9. This breakbeat intro leads to a funky bassline that ends up carrying this track, the pulsating bass and clean snares make this track a lot of fun. The break is a conga inspired beaks with the track re-introducing itself with a melodic line and female vocal that seals the deal, one of the standouts on this L.P. and rightly so. We end this album with a brilliant track, Lift Off, once again a break track reminiscent of the sound from Florida in the late 90’s. This track has big beats, acid lines, and rumbling bassline a great way to end Stephen’s full album effort. Apollo is a great body of work from Stephen Cole. This is an album that has a little something for everyone, pick it up and enjoy what it can on the dancefloor.
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