{"id":1303,"date":"2015-02-28T21:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2015-02-28T21:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T12:20:33","slug":"pearsall-not-the-future-we-were-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Pearsall &#8211; Not The Future We Were Promised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/189452372&amp;color=6fa81c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Far and away the best set I&#8217;ve heard this year isn&#8217;t actually freeform, but a masterclass in jungle selection from Pearsall that you simply have to check out. Harking back to the early-to-mid-nineties golden age of Dreamscape and Helter Skelter, Ellis Dee and Grooverider, this 94 minute set is Pearsall on top, top form.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing to put together a tracklist of massive classics and lesser-known tunes, and then quite another to blend them this well &#8211; the best jungle sets always give me the impression of knife-edge, organised chaos, and what a good demonstration this is. Props to Pearsall for some top-drawer mixing, but also the set&#8217;s progression, moving from some of my favourite chopped up breaks to the amen-focused main section of the set. The climax also has some inspired selections,\u00a0<em>Music Takes Me\u00a0<\/em>and a glorious remake of Tango and Fallout&#8217;s R<em>evelations<\/em> ending the mix in ecstatic style.<\/p>\n<p>Pearsall&#8217;s typically thoughtful <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/pearsall-presents-not-the-future-we-were-promised-old-skool-jungle-classics\/\">Sonicrampage post<\/a> confirms my first impressions, that such a complex set must have taken a heck of a lot of practice and pre-planning, and after a couple of weeks on constant rotation I can confirm it more than stands up to multiple listens. Highly, highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far and away the best set I&#8217;ve heard this year isn&#8217;t actually freeform, but a masterclass in jungle selection from Pearsall that you simply have to check out. Harking back to the early-to-mid-nineties golden age of Dreamscape and Helter Skelter, Ellis Dee and Grooverider, this 94 minute set is Pearsall on top, top form. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drum-bass","category-mixes","category-uk","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}