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| quote: | Originally posted by woscar99
Heard both discs today. Nothing to write home about but still very decent, no tracks stood up upon first listen which is rare for me on a Nick Warren comp.
I thought the second disc was better than the first one.
I guess Nick was right when he said he was going to stop @ 24 because he had nothing more to contribute to the GU series. |
Can't say I agree with that one. 
I consider Shanghai to be my favorite overall Warren installment, as it was some really solid uptempo material at a time when Prog. House was really beginning to churn out some quality content.
The first disc of Paris also ranks up there as an intricate downtempo mix on par with the first disc of Reykjavik (Clovis: Have you checked it out yet), that also felt a bit more complex in its composition.
That said, Lima was a surprisingly underwhelming release.
I might edit this in order provide some more detailed notes later, but the first disc got off to an outstanding, atmospheric start that had all that promising anticipation of his better GU installments. However, halfway through, it just meanders into some pretty dull territory, chugs along, and more or less uneventfully fizzles out before it wraps up on a decent closer.
The second disc didn't feel like it bore any connectedness to the first (which isn't at all a problem), but got out of the gates at a brisk pace and just remained ho-hum until the closing stretch of the disc, with Bosworth feeling like a really unsatisfying, abrupt closer. I spent most of my listening time just waiting for the mix to really kick in, and when it finally did, it felt more like a spirited nudge than anything else.
...and an unsatisfying GU: Lima it was, for me. Compared to everything from Reykjavik onwards, Lima felt like the least inspired, least gratifying mix, and sounded like it could pass for any one of his Hybridized sets.
Those special Warren moments that you find in his mix comps, although present here, felt few and far between, and Lima ultimately ranks as one of those mix comps I'll go back to hear specific tracks or a narrow sequence of tracks, but not likely to listen to the mix in its entirety:
A solid 3 out of 5, or 'meh.'
As for Warren supposedly stating that Reykjavik was to be his last GU: Edition, he somewhat clarifies it in an interview he did with Progressive Sounds a couple of months ago:
| quote: | | Nick Warren: This is quite funny, because the way it really went was that I was interviewed the day after finishing the Reykjavik album, and the interviewer asked when the next one would come out, so i said that at the moment I cant imagine doing another one. That then evolved into me supposedly saying it was my last. Bloody journalists, haha. I need to feel I have something new to offer before I can sign a record deal though, so you never know what will happen in the future. |
Last edited by Paradox Lost on Oct-16-2008 at 11:31
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