Stalwart of the Global Underground DJ contingent, Nick Warren returns to the series following the huge success of his "Paris" CD in 2007.
Selecting the Peruvian capital Lima for his latest installment in the legendary GU city series, Warren complies an entirely exclusive track list to capture the sound and ambience of this historic former Incan city.
Based around the Global Underground party captured in the album’s beautiful stylized artwork, the GU Lima mix is a sonic missile – simpe, direct, and deadly.
There is a definite cosmopolitan futurism about it akin with the city itself– a track called ‘The Castillian’ melting into one called ‘Siberian Transit’, being a case in point...
Beginning quietly with Paul Roger’s ambient ethereal intro CD1 quickly plunges into the awkward bleepy techno of Nils Nuerenberg’s ‘Seduction’ taking the album to an immediate high. The creepy girlish laughter that seeps into the pulsing house groove of Kruse and Nuernberg’s ‘An Why E’ brings an edge of menace to otherwise beautiful melodies, as Jarius Miller’s ‘Botnet’ continues the trip with bleeps and bloops that land from outer space. Culminating in the ghostly finale of 16 Bit Lolitas mix of Astrid Suryanto’s grandiose ‘Distant Bar’, CD1 sets a tone that continues prompting the question, could this be Nick’s most cohesive Global Underground mix to date?
CD2 begins with Alex Dolby’s ‘Long Beach’, a track that drops a funky string refrain onto twisting electronic flutters. The squelchy minimalist bounce of Chris Croat Yvel & Tristan’s ‘Panama’ backs up with Nicolo Vivarelli’s ‘I Am Trying’, haunted by distant radio voices edging nervously in and out of a disco bassline. Thomas Sagstad’s ‘Castillian’ builds energy with its relentless string refrain with twanging Spanish guitar flourishes, while a flurry of vocals arrive on the The Steals vs. Grafiti’s ‘Sinner’ (Leama and James Davis 'Grafiti' Mix) with its echoing, poppy vocals floating on stuttering rhythms, lush chords and electronic squeals that slowly spiral upwards. Warren brings out some big guns for the finale. Analogue People In A Digital World’s ‘Before The Wind’ drives its relentless groove home, occasionally lighting up with brief, bright flashes of melody. The closing Perc’s ‘Bosworth’ has the only big breakdown on the album and is soon back to a luscious, yet minimal groove... another no nonsense underground burner from an album that is full of them.