The X-101 Series

I've been sleeping and dancing to it. It feels like the perfect middle ground between prissily spare minimalism and the sonic overburdenment of hardcore. What else sounds like this?

― Ian, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And why is it so hard to find?

ian go on aim!

And why is it so hard to find?

Is it? Tresor re-issues it every couple of years. Every batch probably ends up sold out. Anyway X-102 is indeed brilliant, great structure and built-up (it's a concept album after all), so that 'Groundzero' (The Planet) is a real climax. X-103 Atlantis is almost as good, although a bit more forbidding IMHO. I like Underground Resistance's Revolution For Change best though, probably gets my vote for best techno album ever.

Yeah, seminal. For me X103, Atlantis has the edge in terms of originality.

Also, I just bought the re-issue of the first mu-ziq : tango'n'vectif. Classic. Amazing. I can't believe it's almost 10 years old.

watch out for the new Tresor 3cd compilation "True Spirit" with lots of goodies dating from 1988 - 2002 but focus on older stuff, lots of it previously unreleased on cd or out of print, exclusive mixes,... hence a real treasure.

about µ-ziq's tango 'n vectif: the album that made me addicted to electronic music forever, i'm wondering what Michael Paradinas is doing these days...