"In The Mix 007 – Progressive Sessions" mixed by Airwave Out Now

It was Airwave who fired the starting shot for Bonzai’s now three-years-and-running In The Mix – Progressive Sessions series back in the summer of 2015. Maintaining a clockwork-regular two-per-year release-tempo, it most recently dropped Gai Barone’s February-released 006 edition. In The Mix 007 – Progressive Sessions sees its mix-baton passed back into the hands of the Belgian. In the pursuit of conquering even In The Mix 007’s dizzying heights, Laurent has gone the extra mile brilliantly networking 28 tracks into 150 mind-expanding minutes of progressive eminence.

Along its path you’ll make contact with freshly sourced studioware from Gai Barone, Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor, John 00 Fleming, Eelke Kleijn, Oovation & Yoachim, The Stupid Experts, Stan Kolev and a progressively star-filled sky of others. It also includes material from Airwave’s own most recent release, as well as hot-from-the-studio production “Attraction” and two purpose built intro pieces, which establish the feel for each of its discs.

With mixing skills almost otherworldly in their ability to blend without margin and a blackbelt understanding the composition of its assembled music, Laurent serves the album a cultured, layered and textually intense experience unlike any other.

Storm’s-coming drums and scudding bass notes herald mix 2’s arrival. Giving tone, tempo and sonic tenacity a nudge, Laurent also allows a shot-glass’-worth of trancier liquor into his mix. Basil O’Glue’s netherworldian “Shrine” flashes the steel; Stan Kolev’s “Utopia” (in its Audio Noir Trip version) adds darker, even more sonorous notes, while “Voyage” from Andromedha ups its celestial ante. Midway through, Airwave slips his newie “Attraction” in, which makes a lightning connection to Gai Barone’s “Flash.” As the ether turns darker again, Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor’s “Timelapse” bring the moodily rolling bass and crunchier percussive elements in. That sets up John 00 Fleming and EEEmus’ (per DJ Mag “chunky, warpy and not without its funkier moments”) “Drop From The Vile” up to deliver the release’s final coup de grace.

If a journey into the very heart of the music is what you’re after, call off the search – Airwave’s In The Mix 007 – Progressive Sessions is available to order here or you can listen via Spotify here.

In The Mix 007 – Progressive Sessions tracklist:

CD 1