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Involver | 
| Artist: Sasha
Label: Involver
Category: Music
Buy New: $15.98
Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 64540
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 828272130139
EAN: 0828272130139
ASIN: B00020HA0Q
Publication Date: 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Grandnational - Talk Amongst Yourselves | | • | Shpongle - Devon Perception | | • | Petter - These Days | | • | UNKLE - What You Mean To Me | | • | The Youngsters - Smile | | • | DJ Spooky - Belong | | • | UNKLE - In A State | | • | Lostep - Burma | | • | Felix Da Housecat - Watching The Cars Go | | • | Ulrich Schauss - On My Own |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Pure, weightless elegance, Involver is true to its title, as Sasha comes up with a mesmerizing stunner. Two years after the lukewarmly received artist record Airdrawndagger, the Welsh waxman and frequent John Digweed co-collaborator has retreated into remix territory, but with a twist. In an effort to meld songwriting ambition with his feather-light touch behind the decks, 10 stellar tracks were totally remade in-studio, not just blended together. The result sounds livelier than dagger, putting Sasha's superb instinct for dance flow to work. Still, despite the presence of Felix Da Housecat's "Watching Cars Go By" stomper, it's a very even record; themes patiently recede and resurface from the bubbly bottom of the mix. The warm, warbling melody from Petter's "These Days," for example, reappears long after you think it's vanished for good, lifting U.N.K.L.E.'s "What Are You to Me?" into hypno-dance orbit. Songs like Spooky's "Belong" and Lostep's "In a State" breathe the same air, rising and falling with interlocking rhythmic poetry. It's a daze of a record, ideal company for moody afternoons spent staring up at wispy clouds and vapor trails. -Matthew Cooke
Album Description
Sasha is back!!! Dance music's most respected and recognizable icon returns to the label that made him an international household name with a concept album so fresh and inventive that it completely recalibrates the notion of what is cool in popular music. "Involver" meets the listener smack at the point where Sasha's 2002 artist album "Airdrawndagger" and the future of electronic music collide. He is the DJ that rode in on a tidal wave of adoration from the North of England's explosive early 90's club scene and has for the last 10+ years consistently sold out every venue, festival, and club that has been honored to witness his legendary performance abilities. And now "Involver" emerges. This is Sasha's first mix compilation in nearly five years and his first full length release since "Airdrawndagger." It is unlike any album that has ever been released in that it completely and perfectly integrates the concept of the DJ mix compilation and the standard Producer/Artist album. Every single track on this album is an original Sasha remix, re-creation or production that has been exclusively recorded as an original piece for this project. He called upon some of his closest friends and peers including Felix Da Housecat, UNKLE, Spooky, and Ulrich Schnauss and asked for permission to recreate, especially for this album, one or more of their songs and they all agreed. In essence, Sasha has become the embodiment of what it means to be "involved" in electronic music on every level. Quite purely, he has taken on a new persona; integrating the DJ and the Producer, he is now the INVOLVER.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 86 more reviews...
 it amazes me how you can rate this any less than 5 stars.... June 19, 2008
Shyam (Chennai, India)
you remember those moments, when you listen to something so profund, you just sit there and can't move. It really busts your a$$ to pieces. Sasha's Involver had one of those effects for me. Too much has been said, too much has been analyzed, too much has been praised by the other reviewers. This CD rates in my top ten albums ever (genre not being considered). Its mindblowing in a manner that will engulf you, the only other time i got this whacked was when i listened to Shpongle's 'Are you shpongled?' release.
If you reading reviews of this CD to find that camaraderie with what you have just experienced, trust me keep reading and listen to the reviews for this one. you have hit the jackpot!
-- i heard invol2ver is scheduled for release --
Brilliant March 8, 2008
Quentin McCrakken (N.W. Territory of Michigan)
This is meant for tripping.. I don't necessarily mean drugs but I have found that road trips with this cd are quite moving. A kaleidescope of emotions oozes from the speakers as one traverses the countryside. The man is in tune with the human psyche unlike many others. Join him and experience the thrill that is "the man like....." Unbelievable!
Perfection, and nothing less October 22, 2007
I. Nedvalyuk (dale city, virginia)
When I first heard of Sasha, it was I believe his tune "Wavy Gravy" that had raised my awareness of him in the year 2003. I was only getting into progressive house music at the time. Later that year, a friend of mine was playing Involver in the car and I asked him to give me a copy.
He gave me a copy, and for that whole SUMMER of '04, that CD, has not ONCE left my cd player. Where ever I would drive, Involver was playing. I fell in love with the music so much, that whenever I was going somewhere the best part about it was the cruise from point A to point B listening to the music. The mixing is flawless, and the choice of tracks is so lush and beautiful. When you ask yourself what is progressive - progressive is Involver.
 Putting the World of Progressive Trance On Hold April 26, 2007
CloudMan (Sydney, NSW Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I must agree with the majority of reviewers in regards to this album...it is difficult to deny the quality and skill of this remix. For this fact alone, I truely can appreciate Sasha's Involver.
However, I wasn't overly thrilled with the track selection. For the most part, Sasha's talent for intricate and complex multilayering of sound shines through. This significantly improves on the original releases of many of the tracks featured on Involver. The difference for me in reviewing this album? Despite Sasha's (improved) remixed versions, the original tracks transform from average to very good...just not spectacular.
Overall I give this album 4/5 stars.
Involver Envelops March 14, 2007
Mark Eremite (Seoul, South Korea)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a follow-up to his seamlessly silky "Airdrawndagger," Sasha put out "Involver," a collection of songs individually remixed to bear the trademark Sasha appeal: light-as-a-feather frequencies co-mingling with a sly-n-slushy subversiveness. It's mastered as, yet again, an uninterrupted thread of music, but this time each song really does stand alone.
The name is a tad ironic, since Sasha's style is more conducive to detachment, to transcendence. In that vein, he builds this album's style on a foundation of dark, rolling thunderheads. Billowing, roiling, harsh as a whisper, there is still the promise of rumbling power, a fashionable tremble of something electric going on. There is trance music's usual sense of elevation, but Sasha adds a hint of danger and foreboding that remains everpresent, giving an album that could've been fluffy and dismissable a delicious edge of ozone.
The heady intro to this CD is "Talk Amongst Yourselves," a moody number by Grand National that Sasha stirs up with an antsy beat that seems eager to jump up and run. Sasha never lets go of the reins, though, guiding the mood through the sashaying salsa sparks of Shpongle's "Dorset Perception," the soft sighs of U.N.K.L.E.'s "What You Mean to Me," and even through the mechanical energy of Felix Da Housecat's "Watching Cars Go By." He caps the record off with a gorgeous refiguring of Ulrich Schnauss's already gorgeous "On My Own."
It's a fitting finale on a record that walks the fuzzy border between sleeping and awake, between day dreams and nightmares, between a sprint, a stroll, and a soar. It's a summer storm of sound, sometimes crashing and dark, but always warm, always fun, and always always refreshing.
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