This is by no means the retrospective of a legacy, but rather a live report on the wake of destruction being left behind. There isn’t a lot to say about Luke Chable that hasn’t already been said. He’s a pioneer of the progressive sound, and continues a steady output of original works and remixes. This latest entry in the Explorations series, for the most part, reflects an ongoing, inherent nature of Chable’s productions: Boomy, breaky, set-ending peak-time epic monsters with all balls and no compromise. If I had a nickel for every time I blew a place up or turned heads with a Chable track, I’d have a lot of nickels. Sentrino alone would probably own half of them.

I’ve been wanting to do this mix for a long, LONG time. It took me this long to locate all the tracks I wanted to use (Acquiring them all ran up about an $80 tab), and put them together in a way that made sense. Picking 80 minutes representative of Luke Chable’s range of work is no small task, though aided in part by my previous use of three tracks that otherwise would’ve made the cut: Skyline Road (You Killed Kenny), Dream On (Devane) and OZ (X:Coast). It’s a wide gamut, another testament to the artist whom this effort is dedicated to. The tracklisting covers a number of Chable’s remixes and a few original works, plus a couple slices from his esteemed Lostep project with Phil K. By picking these 12 tracks, I neglected metric tons of other equally-deserving releases. Perhaps that calls for a part 2 someday.

In the event that I actually manage to become a full-blown producer, I’d love nothing more than to sound like this. Cheers Luke, for helping make the bright side of progressive music what it is.

Running Time: 1:19:36
File Size: 182 MB @ 320 kbps

Tracklisting:

1. Lostep – Naughty [GU Music]
2. Chable & Bonnici – Ride [Alternative Route]
3. Shiloh & Luke Chable – Sentrino [Baroque]
4. Luke Chable – Pressure [Neon]
5. Chable vs. The Dirty Fours – Tokyo (Chable’s Yellow Remix) [Trojan]
6. Mortar & Pestle – Itsachickthing (Luke Chable Remix) [Heavy Rotation]
7. Gus Gus – David (Luke Chable Remix) [Hussle]
8. Trafik – Your Light (Luke Chable’s Vocal Breaks Mix) [GU Music]
9. 21st Century Fuxx – Sunspirit (Ivan Gough & Luke Chable’s Oreo Breakbeat Remix) [Inversus]
10. Blackwatch Presents Professor Okku – Word Unspoken (Luke Chable Remix) [Shinichi]
11. Steve May – Open Day (Luke Chable Quakes & Craters Mix) [EQ Grey]
12. Lostep – Burma (Lostep’s Stoned Immaculate Mix) [GU Music]