The Love Frequency - Impartation

Tuesday 1st December 1998
The Love Frequency - Impartation
The Love Frequency - Impartation

STYLE: Dance/Electronic
RATING 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 12057-13894
LABEL: Independent
FORMAT: CD Album

Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

Brit Dave "Zozzy" Thwaites (for it is he who is The Love Frequency) pressed a copy of this album into my sweaty palm at the Cross Rhythms festival and I'm rather glad he did! Creating all in his Swiss studio, the 20 tracks are designed to get you well acquainted with his musical journey. The first 11 pieces are more recent material and the remainder are the best of his previous work. Creative, fresh, atmospheric with a sense of mischief and fun, this is intelligent ambient dance music with more than a nod towards The Orb. Got to admit I fell in love with this at first listen, especially with the huge number of interesting sounds employed throughout the CD. The standouts for me are the sheer strangeness of "How Are Fish", the inevitable jungle influences of "Mystery (Tarzan Starts Apewar Mix)" and the pounding insistent rhythm and echoing samples of "Impartation (...It Is Spiritual)" which I confess I've stolen to use as a music bed on the radio!! From the floating sounds of "Fragile Realities" and the sad proud strut of "Fallen" through to the FX and creativity of the all too short "Time Bubble", there is much to enjoy here and though this is an instrumental album, a vocal album is threatened in the future. Zozzy has plenty of talent and judging from the development which has taken place just in the time span encapsulated by this album, this is only the beginning. If you like dance music which is intelligent, ambient and creative, send that cheque to Switzerland and if it really catches on, chillheads across the UK might rejoice if Zozzy returns home!

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