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Various Artists - Vinyl Pusher Addictions, Mixed by Andrew Padula & Alex Taylor
Created On June 6th, 2005 by Baby700
(Vinyl Pusher/Shock)
Addictions is the highly anticipated inaugural release from Vinyl Pusher Records. It’s a fix of house music for those addicted to their music. Leading Australian DJs – Andrew Padula and Alex Taylor – are behind the decks.
CD 1 comes to us courtesy of Melbourne’s Andrew Padula. He opens with the smooth ‘Give It Back’ from Gaelle. Light vocals and beats provide a nice opening tune. Vocals feature heavily in the first half of this CD with tracks like Silicone Soul’s ‘Feeling Blue’, Soulchip’s ‘Let’s Rock’ and Cerrone’s ‘Je Suis Music’. ‘Closer To Me’ is a slower, less vocal orientated tune from Chab which, at Track 4, nicely breaks up the vocal heavy songs around it. The CD develops a more electro feel from about Track 8, ‘My Love Is Systematic’, onwards. Nathan G’s ‘Trouble’ has some cute beeps and glitches, as well as low key rapping. My head nods to the mock-rock sounds in ‘Feel The Rhythm’ and Tiga’s ‘Louder Than A Bomb’ is a groovy, somewhat dark dance floor filler. Other sounds definitely worth skipping to are Abysm’s ‘Future Love’ and the phat beat in ‘Breathe’. Finishing off with Cirez’s sexy ‘Diamond Girl’ this CD definitely, for me at least (I like my House sexy, dark and electric), gets better towards the end.
Sydney’s Alex Taylor is the sugar daddy bringing us CD 2. He opens with Jan Driver’s ‘Something To Do’. We see the hip hop/rnb influence here with some rapping intermingled with male vocals. Kitschy electro grooves sum up ‘I Don’t Care’. Vocals get the expected run with tunes like Monroe’s ‘Gotta Get A Move On’ and Scape’s ‘Be My Friend’. Inaya Day’s ‘Nasty Girl’ provides an upbeat, party feel mid-CD. ‘Sasha (Sex Secret)’ has a smooth female vocalist whilst the concluding track, The Highway Stars’ ‘Fucky Funky Music’, has an electro-rock angst feel to it. We also get utterly danceable tunes like Studio B’s dirty ‘I See Girls’ and Nathan G’s ‘Flashback’. This CD has some mightily popular House numbers smattered throughout. They’re sure to go down a treat. Taylor, like Padula before him, displays solid mixing and track selection skills.
This CD is due for release in Australia on 13 June. If you’re addicted to house, I suggest checking out this quality compilation from two of Australia’s finest – Padula and Taylor.
