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Global Underground: Hong Kong
A mere five months after releasing his exquisite double-CD Bedrock, John Digweed returns with an agile piece of turntable mastery for the next, perhaps riskiest, chapter in the immensely popular Global Underground series. Diving into a shadowy and more varied collection of down-and-dirty house and computer-age funk, Digweed's transitions are once again almost inhumanly smooth as he slips his light touch into the outer edges of trance. Still, it's a shock how far down he's willing to go. The sinewy, and relatively airy, groove of Underworld's "Cups" kicks the first CD into a familiar dream world, but it only sets up Digweed's dark, unrecognizable take on Madder Rose's "Overflow." From there, he keeps the downbeat dropping, even while ratcheting up the tension with dark bass-line melodies and relentless beats. Disc 2 continues the trend with a bold, bright, and truly underground sound that trusts the audience to understand the vibe without throwing around the often-cheesy cues favored by many of trance's other best-known DJs. As a setting, perhaps Hong Kong itself is responsible on some level for Digweed's dark-side choices, as if he felt like that relentlessly urban milieu would be a natural for this brand of techno. What's more interesting, though, is that Digweed's style shines through this gloriously mucky mix, remaining lighter than air even when the beats are downright subterranean. --Matthew Cooke
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