Search - Savvas Ysatis :: Select

More Mellow Tech-House Sounds from Saavas

Spenmoney | Brooklyn, NY | 07/25/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"To those fans of straight-up four-to-the-floor tech-house music, this album won't disappoint. I found this CD to be more background music to wash dishes and wiggle your bum to than peak-hour booty-shaking dance music, but that's exactly what I was hoping it to be. SELECT does seem to have more of a funk to it than some of his earlier releases (Hi-Rise, or his Cooler release under his Sound Track alias), even hearkening back to early-to-mid 90s house sound with his use of a stuttering snare drum. Some tracks could easily find themselves on the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction label as well.Those of you who like your tech-house clean and mellow, ala Theorem or Maurizio, you will not be disappointed."

Well crafted, if empty, experience

Richard Diaz | 09/13/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This marks Savvas Ysatis second album for Tresor, bastion label for all things serious and stringent in dance floor techno. Yet while feasible in a club, his sense of space and atmosphere, and passion for low-slung, dubby grooves, steers Select directly for the home listening environment. The nine meticulously crafted pieces brim with drum tics, rumbling bass, and lush pad blips, the typical stomping ground of Force Tracks releases, actually. ?Pathfinder? proves the highlight, slinky, intricate work, with squiggles teasing about. ?Sex Tan? takes his formula one notch higher by adding some disco kick. After an hour of metronome nodding, though, a clamoring need for sparks, innovation that goes against technique, begins to surface. To it?s detriment, the individual pieces eventually slur into one long, pretty yet empty, experience. For sure Select is precise, well mannered and well executed. What?s not clear is whether, by itself, that can sustain a record."