Artist: Various
Title: Ease Division
Date: 2002-09-16
CD: SPITCD012

Track listing:
1. R.B.C.
STRESS ASSASIN
 
 
2. Beach bum drumz
12 MOONS
 
 
3. Dab away
DAB SCREEN
 
 
4. When the pieces come together
HUMAN BLUE AND DJ FLOYD
 
 
5. 7.6 Ghz
S-RANGE
 
 
6. Imagination
MATENDA
 
 
7. Roots FM 1
ROBERT LEINER
 
 
8. 33000 feet over
VIBRASPHERE
 
 
9. Hibernation
HEALER

Downbeat grooves from the Scandinavian shores!

Ease Division is the first in a series of downbeat and chill-out compilations on Spiral Trax. It has been compiled by Michael Andresen who is also known for his own productions as 12 Moons and Healer. The compilation features a genuine collection of who's who from the Swedish dance scene.

First out is the deep dub of Stress Assassin whose debut album on Spiral Trax earlier this year received huge reviews. The Swedish music magazine, 'Groove' even claimed it as "one of the best albums of the year".

Second is the sunny, reggae influenced 'Beach Bum Drums' by 12 Moons, which for sure will put a smile on your face on a rainy day.

Next out is Dab Screen, who is no less than Sebastian Mullaert from Son Kite/Minilogue, one of Sweden's premier trance and progressive producers. Sebastian is also known for his chill-out productions as Ooze. Here he teams up with Daniel Skantze from Fingertwister, another dub producer from the south of Sweden.

Human Blue is another producer from Gothenburg, who released a highly acclaimed trance album earlier this year. It received great attention from DJ's such as John'00' Flemming who licensed two of the tracks for his Euphoria mix CD. Here Human Blue lets the pieces come together for a chilled-out experience together with one of our local DJ's, Floyd.

S-Range, another top quality producer managed to take some time off to make us a down tempo track while he was putting the final touch to his new album.

Continuing with Matenda, a fairly new name in the Gothenburg scene, even though he has already released an album and a bunch of singles.

Next out is a true legend in the history of electronic music; Robert Leiner, who has returned after years of techno exile in Belgium to his home town, Gothenburg. From the early nineties and onwards, Robert Leiner and his moniker The Source Experience was one of the most influential producers on the burgeoning global techno scene. His 1993 album, 'Organized Noise', on R&S is a milestone in techno history. In those days, he was working with artists such as CJ Bolland, Juan Atkins, Lenny Dee and LFO. He has remixed Jam & Spoon's masterpiece "Stella" as well as Juno Reactor and Front 242's side project, Male or Female. Lately it has been somewhat quiet from Robert, but we can promise that he is working in full effect and he will soon be back with a bang.

'33 000 feet Over' by Vibrasphere is an amazing piece of chilled music and a worthy follow-up to 'San Pedro' on their debut album. 'San Pedro' is probably one of our greatest moment in chill as it got licensed to Talvin Singh's 'Back to Mine' CD as well as 'Fashion Week' by George V Records, the label behind the Buddha Bar compilations, just to mention a few.

To finish it off is 'Hibernation', a dreamy number by Michael's own Healer project who released an amazing debut album on Flying Rhino in 2000.