Airdrawndagger [Enhanced] [Import]

Airdrawndagger [Enhanced] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Drempels

2. Mr Tiddles

3. Magnetic North

4. Cloud Cuckoo

5. Immortal

6. Fundamental

7. Boileroom

8. Bloodlock

9. Requiem

10. Golden Arm

11. Wavy Gravy

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese edition of the dance star's premier full length album includes a five track bonus disc, featuring, 'Xpander', 'Belfunk', 'Rabbitweed', 'Baja' & 'Scorchio', with the first pressing only. BMG. 2002.

Airdrawndagger,Sasha,Japanese Import,Club/Dance,Dance,Dance Music,Pop,Progressive House,Progressive Trance

Average customer rating:

Electronic music done right.

Trance In Your Pants!

the truth....I don't know what these guys are on when they

Groundbreaking CD!!!!

Bon Voyagè

Airdrawndagger
Sasha
Manufacturer: Kinetic Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Trance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Xpander

Involver

Fundacion NYC

Northern Exposure : Expeditions

Northern Exposure II: East Coast

ASIN: B00006BXG5
Release Date: 2002-08-06

Tracks:

Drempels
Mr Tiddles
Magnetic North
Cloud Cuckoo
Immortal
Fundamental
Boileroom
Bloodlock
Requiem
Golden Arm
Wavy Gravy

Amazon.com

Embracing neither the rampant guest appearances favored by the Chemical Brothers, nor the blatant, pop-flavored pandering of recent work from Paul Oakenfold and BT, Sasha's first studio full-length mimics the up-down-up pattern of a classic trance mix. As closely associated as he is with John Digweed, Airdrawndagger illustrates their different tendencies: Digweed is most comfortable with sinister, subterranean grooves, while Sasha is always threatening to float over the dance floor. Accordingly, Airdrawndagger's head is firmly in the clouds, but it's also a clever mish-mash, convincingly melding electro and ambient sounds with occasional four-on-the-floors, like "Bloodlock" and "Golden Arm." Tracks like "Mr. Tiddles" have a warm facility with machines worthy of a Depeche Mode, as Sasha transforms the grandiose, operatic pretensions of trance into a quick and potent chunk of dance pop. The brooding "Cloud Cuckoo" starts off in a similar vein before building itself up into a wash of overlapping beats and sweeping melody that recalls Sasha's Xpander EP. Throughout the record, Sasha stretches himself in the right directions, pulling off the trick of sticking to what he does best while summoning up the creative juice to make Airdrawndagger just new enough to be fascinating. --Matthew Cooke

Customer Reviews:

Electronic music done right........2007-07-16

One of my favorite electronic music released of any period. Too often modern electronic music is forced to match tempo and bass drum patterns with standard club music so that music flows from track to track without interruption. Airdrawndagger doesn't bother. It takes you on a journey that sometimes groves and sometimes floats. This is music to listen to. It gets a lot of play when I am riding bicycle or crunching numbers at work. Though I like the CD from end to end Cloud Cuckoo, Immortal and Fundamental are on my iTunes frequent play list.

Trance In Your Pants!.......2007-03-06

I've been a big fan of Sasha and Digweed for quite some time. I wasn't sure, when I grabbed this record, if I was in for the usual treat. There is something about the balance in the two -- Digweed's subterranean rhythms versus Sasha's atmospheric ambience -- that creates a perfectly grounded balance, a sort of quaking typhoon of sound. Is this an example of two good things that go better together, or is there, as they say, a "better half?"

Well, I wouldn't go that far. I even knew, before I dismissed the advertisements calling this a "dance" album, that I was in store for some uncut trance, the musical equivalent of fog rolling in from the shore, or stars steadily appearing in the gathering darkness of dusk. Don't be fooled by brightly colored stickers calling this a house album; Sasha wants you to sit back and relax.

That's not to say he doesn't also want you tapping your fingers or nodding your head. Much of the CD treads lightly through angelic daydreams ("Wavy Gravy"), opulent melancholia ("Mr. Tiddles"), and incorrigibly beautiful fugues ("Magnetic North," which passes the hat to the livelier but equally dreamy "Cloud Cuckoo"), but these are just the bows and ribbons on the heart of the album: a dark and turbid core of deep, deep house.

"Immortal," "Fundamental," and "Boileroom" are the blazing hub of this record, a triad of mechanically and earthily raunchy four-on-the-floor itchiness. Sasha shows us the dark side of his skill in these pieces, sonic tapestries that could easily be the soundtrack to a crashing rocketship, a factory strike, an android orgy. Whatever you want to call them, they're deliciously harsh and heavy. Maybe not dance worthy per se, but nitty, gritty, nervy and wicked.

Sasha manages to pull out of this tantalizing tail spin with some skillful twists and turns; "Bloodlock" is an artful mix of the dark and the light, a booming, gusting, bell-drenched bloom. His course heading wants serious correction at one point -- "Requiem" starts out fine but devolves into a bewildering mish-mosh of off-tune bloops and bleeps, something that sounds like a small child poking randomly at a circa-1980 Casio keyboard (a problem also mirrored in splinters by "Drempels," the intro piece) -- but this is, literally, a two minute snag in an otherwise wholly entrancing trip that's over one wonderful hour long.

the truth....I don't know what these guys are on when they .......2007-01-20

listen to this music...garbage...I don't know what Sasha was on when he mixed this...

Involver more sleek and sexy...

Groundbreaking CD!!!!.......2007-01-18

Sasha is the master and if you haven't gone to see him play live then you haven't gone to see the Grand Master of Mixing! Giant 2007 he played so so so so so good and brought the night to a heartpounding finish, definitely one of the best DJ's in the Universe! This CD brings you through almost a dream like state, used to play video games to it because it make you concentrate and sucks you into the beats. If you don't have this CD then you need to get it now!

Bon Voyagè.......2006-09-30

For some people, electronic music is nothing but a set of repetitive beats and uncreative sounds (perhaps those people are staying too long in the techno section?). Superstar DJ Sasha tackles those issues with this flabbergasting compilation that differs from most things we've grown accustomed to - It's avant-garde material made to show the world what trance should be. From the playful "Mr. Tiddles" to the masterful "Wavy Gravy", all songs make sense as a whole and give substance to the concept, making it a classic.

Average customer rating:

Airdrawndagger
Sasha
Manufacturer: Kinetic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Trance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000068TIU
Release Date: 2002-08-06

Tracks:

Drempels
Mr Tiddles
Magnetic North
Cloud Cuckoo
Immortal
Fundamental
Boileroom
Bloodlock
Requiem
Golden Arm
Wavy Gravy

Album Details

One of the Biggest Dance Albums of 2002, 'airdrawdagger' Avoids Pure Dancefloor Fodder in Favor of a More Understated, Almost Chilled Out Approach. It Melds his Love of Breakbeat and Soundtrack Work and Plays Tribute to Some of his Biggest Influences. True Turntable Artistry.

Average customer rating:

Airdrawndagger
Sasha
Manufacturer: Bmg Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Trance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00006RTNF
Release Date: 2002-12-02

Tracks:

Drempels
Mr. Tiddles
Magnetic North
Cloud Cuckoo
Immortal
Fundamental
Boileroom
Bloodlock
Requiem
Golden Arm
Wavy Gravy

Album Description

Japanese edition of the dance star's premier full length album includes a five track bonus disc, featuring, 'Xpander', 'Belfunk', 'Rabbitweed', 'Baja' & 'Scorchio', with the first pressing only. BMG. 2002.

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Five Track Bonus CD for the Initial Pressing.