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Renaissance: The Master Series | 
 enlarge | Artist: Hernan Cattaneo
Label: Thrive (Red)
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 70133
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 90717
UPC: 651249071728
EAN: 0651249071728
ASIN: B00018U966
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Darko & Gainer "Ayahuaska" (Reprise) | | • | Richard Davies "In The Air" | | • | Pams Magic Tractor "Time To Kill" (DJ Harvey Remix) | | • | Casa Flava "Homa" | | • | Alexander Kowalski "Scarpia" | | • | Bill Makris "Honey" | | • | Rolasoul "Lost In Power" (Dub) | | • | Bill Makris "Dreams" | | • | Matthew Dekay & Alvredo "Symbiosis" (Herbal Dub) | | • | Jay Tripwire & Grant Dell "Slo Roast" | | • | Tiger Corps present Randall Jones "Cultural Assertion" | | • | Agent 001 "Bubblebath" (16b Remix) | | • | The PQM Project "Aenema" |
Disc 2
| • | Chab featuring JD Davis "Closer To Me" | | • | Wink "Oakish" c/w T-Empo "Fouk" (Acapella) | | • | Amillionsons presents 21st Century Planet Smashers "Underground Night Music" (Dub) | | • | Hernan Cattaneo & Dean Coleman "Behind The Music" | | • | Morgan Page & Gregory Shiff feat. Astrid Suryato "All I Know" (Hernan Cattaneo & Martin Garcia Remix) | | • | Alex Dolby "Hazy Way" | | • | Luke Chable presents Quest "The Sheppard" | | • | Steve May "Open Day" (Original Mix) | | • | Danny Howells & Stef Vrolijk "Phono Corono" | | • | Grand Resonant "Central" | | • | Age of Love "Age of Love" (Wrecked Angle Remix) |
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Album Description
Hernan Cattaneo has always been one of South Americas biggest DJs, but his opportunity to truly break out globally came when ŒClubland, the weekly Saturday at Pacha, Buenos Aries, became recognized as one of, if not THE worlds best club. Hernan suddenly found himself playing alongside the likes of Sasha, Tenaglia, Deep Dish and Paul Oakenfold. Although all highlighted him as Œone to watch, it was Oakie who snapped Hernan up, taking him on world tours as his official warm-up and signing him to his Perfecto label for the lauded mix comp, Perfecto Presents: South America (Thrive, 2002). From this things blossomed, with further career highs including opening DJ sets on Underwolds 2003 US run, a slot at the 2003 Coachella festival, & remixes for Deep Dishs Shinichi label. Most recent highlights include a remix of Morgan Page for John Digweeds Bedrock label (as can be heard on this album) and, of course, his confirmation as the next DJ to mix a Renaissance Masters album, where Hernan joins such esteemed company as Deep Dish and Dave Seaman in this massively successful mix CD series. With Masters, Hernan expands upon his trademark deep Œn sexy tribal sound. The tracklisting reads like a trainspotters wet dream and includes some of the most upfront progressive house tracks from the likes of Josh Wink, Danny Howells, Luke Chable, Jay Tripwire, and the debut CD appearance of the current global dancefloor hit, Age of Love.
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Putting The "Haunted" In "House" August 28, 2008
Mark Eremite (Seoul, South Korea)
Born and bred in Buenos Aires, Hernan Cattaneo's style likes to duck its head into warm, wet shade and pound its feet into loose, sandy soil. Flickering strobe-like between tribal, minimal tech, and virtually every kind of laid-back house there is, he doesn't usually mix the kinds of sets that get the sweat to fly. His art is the kind of under-the-radar, navel-centric half-trance electro that'll get your brain cells to dance long before your knees do. Renaissance chose Hernan to headline their Master Series with two beautifully packaged sets that showcase this Argentinean DJ at his (sometimes near) best.
Volume One/Disc One: Aside from a woefully atonal opening track (PQM's "Aenema"? Really?), this is a tightly mixed chunk of beautiful deep house. Do what I do and start with track two, Agent 001's "Bubblebath," a playful piece that nicely upswings into the funky-jazz psychedelica of the next three titles. Without skipping a beat, Cattaneo deftly drives the groove underground until he hits the spelunking climax of the record, the back-to-back deep house grooves of "Scarpia" and "Homa." These are songs that make the condensation on cavetops glitter like stars. He tries to shake off the lanky mood at the end with some peppier numbers, and although he gets a bit too Music Box with "In The Air," he's mostly successful. Four Stars.
Volume One/Disc Two: Like the previous record, Disc Two has a rocky start. If you're any kind of house head, you'll think, for a second, that the first track is Chab's "Sunrise," a stellar number. In actuality, Cattaneo shears that song's backbone off and pastes on top of it the rather annoying "Closer To Me," a song with a plodding, military cadence and a whiny vocal track. The second track is even worse, and for the same reason. On top of Wink's darkly minimal "Oakish," Cattaneo lays the stupidly snobby "Fouk." After these misfires, though, the album picks up serious speed. In fact, if you simply skip the first two tracks, it sounds much more like a serious Cattaneo album. "Underground Night Music," with its classic rock sensibilities, sets up a lush-n-mossy bedrock for the dip and soar of the next eight tracks. Highlights include Hernan's own "Behind the Music" (a gorgeously itchy deep house number) and "Phono Corono" (Danny Howells' sublimely sweet trance creation). Cattaneo connects these two climaxes superbly with some genre melding grooves, although he almost drowns the soul of the set by overdoing the high end of Dolby's "Hazy Way." Four Stars.
Volume Two/Disc One: I don't know what happened to Cattaneo between the release of Volume One and Volume Two, but I like it. No, strike that. I love it. When I discovered this disc, I played it so much it almost became a permanent part of my CD player. This album creates a consistent and powerul acoustic aura with such brilliance and finesse that it is almost heart-breaking. Gone are the first track false starts. Here Cattaneo begins with the brain-melting beauty of Pole Folder's "Salvation on Slavery Sins" (which starts ingeniously with sound effects lifted from a carnival grounds). The only time I've ever heard complaints about this disc, they come from people who want "more funk" or "something they can dance to." Well, this is REAL Cattaneo right here. And although it might not have the verve you want for some hard house hopping, it has all the grace and dignity that this slippery genre is capable of. Listen to the achingly ethereal move from "Horn" into the alley-way funk-fantasy (sweet merciful Lord!) that is "Grand Theft Vinyl." Marvel at how Hernan manages to perfectly mesh the light-touch techno of "Machine Life" with the squat-n-shuffle grooves of "Affrodizziac." If there's any low spot to the album at all, it's Morel's "If You Love Me," which is a bit too gleeful for the flavor Cattaneo has set up. Still, overall, a remarkable work, and still one of the best I've ever heard. Five Stars.
Volume Two/Disc Two: The lead-off here sounds like it could be the continuation of Disc One. Space Manoeuvre's "Part Three," with the Sutherland sample from Dark City, is more true-to-form Hernan, two parts dark and three parts dreamy. Cattaneo starts turning more lights on this time around, lifting the mood up some with "Funky Summa" and the glittery wings of "Fields." He keeps toying with the soul of the set, and deftly, dosing the beat with his usual jungle-house rhythms and then sprinkling a few vibrant reverbs to keep things from getting too gloomy. He executes a perfect climax with "Happy To Be Sad" and "Higher Than A Skyscraper," two songs whose titles give you some idea of what Cattaneo tries to be all about. The first is a glorious solar system of a track by Derek Howell, a trance/dance mutation that encapsulates the heart of the set. The second is an ironic double-twist of deep house that both dives and soars on a sound that is equal parts techno and classical. It would make a perfect send-off for the disc, but Cattaneo adds (unnecessarily, but not awkwardly) a personal edit of Underworld's swampy "Mo Move." Although not nearly the masterpiece that Disc One is, this set is still better than a lot of what you'll find out there today. Four and a half Stars.
Renaissance: Hernan Cattaneo The Master Series February 19, 2008
R. Trumps (Houston, TX. USA)
Renaissance: The Master Series
I really enjoyed this disc set the first time thru. I know own several other disc and live recordings of Hernan, and enjoy his mixes immensely. His emotions come out in his mixes, and that to is what makes his sets unique. This is a great buy for any new house music listener.
 Above Average But Nothing To Get Excited About June 5, 2007
Cloudman (Vancouver, BC)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first commercial production that I listen to by Cattaneo. I must admit that I have been impressed by the majority of his live sets that I've listened to. Probably why I expected a little more from this one.
Predominantly falling under the progressive house genre, there are a number of very good tracks over the two discs, but just as many mediocre ones. Compress this into a single disc and it would have more of an impression.
Both discs get 3.5/5 stars.
Better than Vol2 September 2, 2005
Progressive/tribal music lover
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There's some wickedly cool stuff here, but I feel that all of it could have just fitted onto one cd. Not a bad buy.
 Wickedly cool February 9, 2005
S. D. Seitz (Pleasanton, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
OK, Track 13 on Disc 1 is a remix of Tool's "aenema" (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tool/139381.html) damn that is SO cool, all done with a chick singer.
Cattaneo's work is slick and fascinating. Very dark and moody at times, other times more introspective and passive, then he'll just unleash some wickedly cool swirl of sound that will definitely leave you wanting more. Highly recommended
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