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Texture, texture, texture! Successful house music, to my way of thinking, requires smart layering and texturing. It's a genre whose melodies are typically subdued and that relies on repetitious grooves. Repetition isn't necessarily an evil but it can slip to the dark side of the force with a quickness. So it is that those textures (let's see how many times I can slip that word into this review!) are so vitally important. Hook and infectiousness find their roots in the intertwining levels of the musical elements; therein lies the key to atmosphere. House, done right, can exhibit shades-at-night coolness and pulsing warmth at the same time, done right. And I'm happy to report that these things I've discussed find a pretty good example set in Wiggle's "Fabric 28", a moody, textured (aha!), atmospheric, groovy and reasonably infectious batch of house tunes. This is a CD that knows what it's doing. It's not raising the bar but it knows where the bar sets now and reaches successfully for it.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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