Frantically Calm

artist: DJ Trax
title: Frantically Calm / (ICR remix)
label: Misspent Music
catalogue: MISSPENT003
format: digital download
date: 11/2007
country: Hungary

"Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace." - Marianne Williamson

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It's been 18 years since his debut and DJ Trax doesn't seem to be put off by the new millenium angst that's creeping into every genre. More to the point, he delivers a hefty piece of MUSIC. Is it drumandbass? Is it an extremely cinematic and emotional sample of an Eastern European expressionist movie sountrack? Frantically Calm is creeping in at halftempo and then gets 'frantic' in an avalanche of breaks and an ear-mollesting bassline intertwined with acoustic guitar licks that make you wish you knew how to play a damn instrument! The flip has the man behind Misspent, ICR, picking up the main elements of the original and coming up with his own interpretation of Frantically Calm: live breaks, muffled melancholic piano chords and the ubiquitous guitar licks run through the remix sounding like there's a whole band jamming on stage rather than one man and his computer.

words by TRG (myspace.com/trgproductions)