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Oliver Lieb (LSG) - the emperor of electronic sounds.

High!!!

Absölütely Wunderbar!
Deeeelicious. Original and purist Oliver Lieb sound. He delivers the entire album onto a 134bpm plate worthy listening to over and over again. His sounds are very unique and vivid with the right weight in building the tracks. The tracks are also perfect in length to set the mood and subsequently meshed together delicatly. Evolutionary, rather than revolutionary the Hive is worthy of much proper attention compared to many cookie-cutter heavy progressive juggernauts out there stealing the spotlight. I was looking for originality and it seems that Mr. Lieb has his own drum beat ;) 5 stars, no doubt!

Out of nowhere - my Album of the Year
Everyone wants to spin progressive house - or so it seems, with the glut of housey-trancey-breakbeaty mix compilations hitting shelves today. The sheen's off the big labels a little bit, and there's a very real danger of people getting - for lack of a better word - tired. Tired of listening to CD after CD that plays like a commercial compilation of "The Biggest House/Trance Tunes To Hit The Charts This Summer".

Enter LSG - The Hive.

This isn't a new release by any means. But I got to listen to it only a couple of days ago, and it made me remember a few things about dance music that I was maybe beginning to forget.

Number 1 - Sometimes, to explore the various NEW ways in which even a tried-and-tested genre of sound can move you, you need to go to the source. Producers & their full length compositions, not mix CDs.

Number 2 - The bass may make you groove to it, the beat may get you hopping... but no matter how cheesy you think it may be, melody made you call it music in the first place. When a composer treats the melody with respect, and gives it the necessary treatment by layering it over synths, draping it along dark, percussive basslines and giving it that occasional anabolic steroid boost of dancefloor mania, the melody WORKS. Period.

This particular composer is perhaps one of the most consistent of his breed, and The Hive adds to that reputation in no small measure. Yes, it's trance - trance that rolls over you in magnificient, thunderous tidal waves. Yes, it's danceable - I can easily see individual tracks from this CD making it on to hardcore dancefloor focused mix albums. Yes, it's mixed - and sequenced so beautifully to form a flowing, one-hour soundscape that I'm not going to try to pick stand-out tracks. Yes, it's dark - dark enough to satisfy even tastes that have been seasoned by Digweed-ian extremes.

It is still melodious. It is still musical. It's still trancey. And even though all of this may seem like an instant recipe for cheese, the end result is one of the best compilations ever created by Oliver Lieb, using a sound that many have proclaimed dead.

Interesting, how a "dead" sound can form an album of the year. Tragic, how easily it can be overlooked simply because it doesn't have the brand name backing of a Boxed release or the superstar DJ credits of an Airdrawndagger. Don't let that happen to you. "The Hive" is one of the finest dance music creations in circulation now. Buy it & listen through. Then bow to the man who made it, because with this one, ladies & gentlemen, Oliver Lieb has blown away the competition without even making a big deal about it.

5 stars, and a place on my CD collection for life.