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Viva Toronto | 
 enlarge | Artist: Steve Lawler
Label: Ultra Records
Category: Music
List Price: $20.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 25124
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 51752
UPC: 617465175220
EAN: 6174651752206
ASIN: B001A2AD4K
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Disc 1
| • | Viva Toronto Intro - Steve Lawler, Lawler, Steve | | • | Luna Africana (Reprise) - Steve Lawler, Remondina, Roberto | | • | Give It a Go - Steve Lawler, Green, Tim | | • | Loosey Goosey - Steve Lawler, Goodwin, Gary | | • | Outsider - Steve Lawler, Vasconcelos, Helder | | • | Capacitor - Steve Lawler, Spektre | | • | Ramper - Steve Lawler, Marta, Alecs | | • | Grains - Steve Lawler, Tepper, Alex | | • | As You Like It - Steve Lawler, | | • | Pull & Bear - Steve Lawler, Costantino, Giuffri | | • | Total Departure - Steve Lawler, Smith, Christian | | • | Red Light of Dawn - Steve Lawler, Mull, Joel | | • | Codice Morse - Steve Lawler, Picone, M. | | • | I Like to Serve - Steve Lawler, Alicante, Ilario |
Disc 2
| • | Viva Toronto Intro - Steve Lawler, Lawler, Steve | | • | Evp Echoes - Steve Lawler, Downie, Kim | | • | Drifting On - Steve Lawler, Miss Fitz | | • | Time & Space - Steve Lawler, Tsoy, Nivek | | • | Nomads - Steve Lawler, Cle | | • | All Dried Out - Steve Lawler, Cle | | • | Diskotecktonik - Steve Lawler, Fetisch & Me | | • | Cambio - Steve Lawler, Hirst, Stu | | • | Sublimes - Steve Lawler, Courti, J. | | • | Symphony for the Apocalypse - Steve Lawler, Jonson, Mathew | | • | Billy Says Go - Steve Lawler, Dear, Matthew | | • | Decade - Steve Lawler, Baggy Bukkador | | • | Xuplak - Steve Lawler, Cohen, Beto | | • | Perception - Steve Lawler, Dachshund | | • | The Astropopshop - Steve Lawler, Martiniq, Frank |
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Product Description
1.Viva Toronto Intro - (with Friends)
2.Luna Africana - (with Robytek)
3.Give It a Go - (with TG)
4.Loosey Goosey (Reboot Rework) - (with Calculus)
5.Outsider - (with Polyvinyl)
6.Capacitor - (with Spektre)
7.Ramper (Patrick Zigon Mix) - (with Alecs Marta)
8.Grains (Tg Mix) - (with Alex Tepper)
9.As You Like - (with Trnsstr)
10.Pull & Bear (Ji Fire Mix) - (with Alex Costa)
11.Total Departure - (with Christian Smith & John Selway)
12.Red Light of Dawn - (with Joel Mull)
13.Codice Morse - (with Mark Antonia/Joseph Capriatti)
14.I Like To Serve - (with Ilario Alicante)
1.Viva Toronto Intro - (with Computerman)
2.Set To Receive Ep - (with The Black Dog)
3.Drifting On - (with Miss Fitz)
4.Time & Space - (with Nivek Tsoy)
5.Nomads - Water - (with Cle)
6.All Dried Out - (with Cle)
7.Diskotecktonik - (with Fetish & Me)
8.Cambio - (with Stu Hirst)
9.Sublimes (Rone Mix) - (with Sie)
10.Symphony - (with Matthew Johnson)
11.Billy Says Go - (with Audion)
12.Decade - (with Bukaddoor & Fishbeck)
13.Xuplak - (with Betoko)
14.Perception - (with Dachshund)
15.Astropop Shop, The - (with Frank Martiniq)
Album Description
Steve Lawler is one of the most in demand DJs in the world, playing gigs globally. The album takes its inspiration from Steve's prestigious annual event at the Guvurnment club, Toronto.The release is split into two discs representing the party's schedule: a club set followed by the afterparty on the terrace `Inside' and `Outside'. The result is that disc 2 in particular has the feel of a diverse, contemporary, home listening album which will appeal to a wider market. The art has been carefully produced to further reflect the night and day concept and reinforce the unique concept.
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| Customer Reviews:
 I could wax eloquent as do the other reviews but.... August 22, 2008
Robert Young (New York City)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
But I'll get to the point. It kinda sucks. May not tell you much about the the specific tracks and the moods it creates, or the subtleties of emotion, but hopefully is conveys the essence of what I think of the CD and the selection of music. so if you have $18 to waste and just need to have every possible selection in your collection, then its a must have otherwise....not.
 A Big Day in Viva Land July 30, 2008
Nathaniel Udel (Ft. Collins, CO USA)
Viva Toronto had many requests and was expected to be a good album having many reviews. I was one of many fans to request it. Sure enough, it did get good reviews. I heard both discs in one day and loved this in no time flat. My friend John was loving the new Alex Dolby album, but told him if that was anything, wait until he hears Viva Toronto because that kicked my butt!
The first disc is liked mellowed back keeping it simple and the introduction doesn't have Steve lawler in it, but is like being at the airport. Music with spanish people in the background immediately kicks in with a beat rising up out of no where. You here samples of a soundscape throughout the entire album that keeps grabbing at my ear. The first disc is laid back, but a lot more organized than Viva London was.
It was really the 2nd disc that got my attention and in a lot of ways, reminds me of some of Deep Dish's Global Underground releases, exspecially because of the sound. Evp Echoes and Symphony for the Apocalypse are good examples of this. The sound is bigger and does nothing but keep my ear stuck to it like it is deformed.
Outstanding soundscape and outstanding music. This is a good disc, exspecially for the 2nd disc. If I were in your shoes, I would just take it. Doctor recommended!!
The Metaphysics of House July 12, 2008
M. Khan (USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an interesting period for this genre. For the last 2-3 years many dj's have spun a wide array of minimalistic electronica in the search for the pulse of house music and perhaps blaze a path forward that is unique and interesting while reflecting their own style. Steve Lawler in his last few albums has experimented along these lines, moving from what is best understood to be tribal house to a nostalgic neo-tech-house that is true to the recesses of a dark and sublimanal place where we depart from our day-selves.
The tracks on this set reflect a signature Lawler sound which is best indicated in the way he handles space, a consistent rate of peaks embeded across tracks. across albums.
This is not atmospheric music, it is intense...seductive and the power behind it is best described as magnetic. The journey takes you from a chaotic pass through an airport and then as you settle in, ever inward until there is no sense of time.
As always, the quality of recording is outstanding. The engineering second-to-none, selection of tracks inspired, In summary? State of the art.
Toronto's Soundtrack to its Sewers July 10, 2008
LexAffection (Philadelphia, PA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Steve Lawler's Viva: Toronto embraces a sentiment that John Digweed once expressed about minimal electronic music - That is, that good minimal techno contains as much relative importance in the audible sound as it does in the absence of sound. Despite the wise sentiment, it was hard for me to be bought immediately by Lawler's minimal prominence. Viva: London was a decent enough disc, but hardly a frontrunner in its category. Viva: Toronto is altogether a similar concept, mastering the devilish attitude that accompanies darkened rooms, seedy nightclubs and unfamiliar faces. However similar the genre is to its predecessor, Toronto is altogether better than London (we're talking about the discs, here!).
Disc One ("Inside") embraces colorful, mucky and gritty minimal-tech. Like wind rushing between city buildings, the sound on this disc carries more force than it cares to show. Despite its near-phantomlike presence, I found myself bouncing around to the music as I had a listen. I argue that this type of musical incongruity sometimes makes for a better listening experience, and reminds me of the M_nus label afterhours party I attended in Detroit after D.E.M.F.'s second day. Astonishingly fresh minimal that can actually be danced to is refreshing, and now that I have come to terms with the fact that the prior king of grimy tribal has moved on to other territories, the Lawler watermark continues to cast a veritable shadow over a new genre of 4 A.M. clubbing madness. Less mad than disc two, "Inside" shows a clear progression in Lawler's new path as a class DJ. Highlights include "Give It A Go," "Loosey Goosey (Reboot Rework)," "Ramper (Patrick Zigon Remix)" and "Grains (TG Remix)."
The second disc, "Outside," feels like anything in the world other than a romp around the dewy fields of electronica the title suggests. "Outside" takes minimal to places where sunlight is merely a concept, never a reality. In short, the type of place Steve Lawler has been dominating since the beginning. "Outside" unleashes a wave of exceptional new releases; echoic and murky sounds rhythmically drip and trickle into place like water from ceiling pipes in a cellar. Miss Fritz' passive "Drifting On" segues into the stellar and demonic tone of Nivek Tsoy's "Time and Space." Most of Lawler's selections are dissimilar pieces of music taken alone. For me, they combine to form a descending staircase leading to all sorts of delightfully clandestine activites: masquerades, liquor and sweat. To follow the second disc's progression is to witness, in an entirely different realm of EDM, that which Lawler became famous for in the tribal and progressive house circuits. Other tracks worth mentioning (though all are fantastic) are "Diskotecktonik," "Cambio," "Symphony for the Apocalypse," "Perception" and "The Astropop Shop."
Viva: Toronto clearly outclasses both its "Viva" predecessors. With choice electronic cuts in all directions, I found that it was truly difficult for these discs to lose my attention. Lawler puts all the meat on one bone and emerges with a strong, energetic and intriguing compilation album. Leave it to Lawler to take minimal under his covert wing and make it appealing!
~ Lex / JW (iBeats)
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