Parallel Dimensions [Original recording remastered]

Real Detroit Weekly
Authentic Detroit dance music at its best.

Product Description
Theo Parrish released "Parallel Dimensions" in 2000 on his Sound Signature label. Frustratingly for many dance music lovers only 1000 copies were ever pressed on CD and no full-length album was ever pressed. Through a unique deal with Mr Parrish Ubiquity has the opportunity to release a new pressing of this milestone release on CD and LP. On "Parallel Dimensions" the Detroit based producer makes house music that is haunted, mournful, elegant, and cavernous. Organic horns and voices beautify super deep drum rhythms, signature hypnotic Parrish beats and Detroit schooled bass lines.

Parallel Dimensions [Original recording remastered]

Tracks:

So Now What
Anansies Dances
Serengeti Echoes
Reaction To Plastic
Space Ghosts
Summertime Is Here
Brain
Violet Green
Nefarious Stranger

Album Description

Theo Parrish released "Parallel Dimensions" in 2000 on his Sound Signature label. Frustratingly for many dance music lovers only 1000 copies were ever pressed on CD and no full-length album was ever pressed. Through a unique deal with Mr Parrish Ubiquity has the opportunity to release a new pressing of this milestone release on CD and LP. On "Parallel Dimensions" the Detroit based producer makes house music that is haunted, mournful, elegant, and cavernous. Organic horns and voices beautify super deep drum rhythms, signature hypnotic Parrish beats and Detroit schooled bass lines.

Customer Reviews:

Soul Food.......2007-06-27

Detroit, the undisputed cradle of techno music, is a city ravaged by industrial decay, it's people neglected by a prejudiced and careless system, and it's identity often marginalized, yet like the relentless and calculated hum of the assembly line, so do the denizens of Detroit's nascent and highly creative techno scene relentlessly elevate the musical dialect of a rhythmic lineage that was born in the ancestral hums, and percolating drums of Africa, born in the ghetto, infused with the infinite anguish of the delta blues and echoes of the field hollers and energized with the deep soul that was envisioned in the gospel songs of the slave ring shout, and repackaged by multi-talented singers in the halls of Detroit's legendary Tamla Records, which redefined 20th century black music, into a global sound, imitated the world over.

This album, part of a lineage charged with creating highly inventive and quality black music, from the early days of the godfathers-the first wave-Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May, to Eddie Fowlkes and Carl Craig, exemplifies the aforementioned sonic paradigm that has been so instrumental in helping create a world-wide audience for this quality music. This album was my introduction into the 21st century soul boogie coming from the depths of Detroit, which are here skilfully manipulated through machines that create a sound that is pure soul techno blues, with carefully syncopated drums, and subtle sound signature changes, that result in a highly satisfying and captivating musical journey, constantly holding your senses hostage, yet easing the mind's consciousness with soulful calming sonic waves. The entire album is simply finger lickin' good, and if this proves to peak your interest into the Detroit strain of techno, be sure to dig deeper for Theo's other exceptional releases, such as First Floor, and Sound Sculptures Vol.1 along with the likes of Moodymann, Carl Craig, Model 500, Underground Resistance and 3 Chairs among many other exceptional pioneering spirits.

The Detroit techno music scene is impressive in that although it eschews fame for a more conscious and uplifted form of expression that results in pure quality black music, lot of it very expensive or hard to find and often incorporating social consciousness, it has consistently done so under the mainstream radar, as if their sole desire is to express their souls, and ultimately time will catch up to their highly pioneering strain of soul music, a future goldmine of vivrant raw material, that irnonically today's mainstream Hip-Hop should tear a page from and learn. Pabs.

I Believe Theo Can Do No Wrong.......2005-11-07

Enough said really. This is yet another in a string of great works. I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!!!

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