Editorial Reviews
From URB Magazine
The nice thing about being the Advent is that you never have to change. Whether a solo project or a collaboration, whether its 1995 or 2002, all producer Cisco Ferreira has to do is keep making rock-solid techno tracks. Other producers may bother themselves with the lofty ideals of advancing the music and evolving as artists, but most Advent fans would consider any variance of their beloved 909 kick drum a paramount betrayal. The Advent, like a reputable financial institution, will always be there.
That said, Sketches for Life is the Advent again at its finest. Though relatively brief for an album, all eight tracks are pillars of various techno sub-styles. "Hi Jack" is one perfectly executed mechanized beat while "Inn Touch" funks it up a notch, making it the sort of cut DJs like Marco Carola love to drop. Dark electro-tech is well represented by "Keep It Under," and "The Vault" is one more industrial samba in the best tradition of Jeff Mill’s work as The Purposemaker.
Much like the Tresor label, the Advent represents techno, fully and succinctly. But both ought to be careful. Much in the same way Xerox feared losing their trademark because too many people were using the word as a verb, Ferreira could very well end up losing the name Advent to Webster’s Dictionary should he continue to define techno so very well.
Joshua Glazer
Sketched for Life/Sound Sketches,The Advent,Efa (Caroline),Acid Techno,Dance Music,Electro-Techno,Pop,Techno
Sketched for Life/Sound Sketches
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