Magda - She's A Dancing Machine (CD)

All Music Guide

So now with the minimal techno movement reaching a fever pitch in 2006, it's Magda's turn to step up to the plate for the Mnus camp following their successful De9 and Min2Max releases. It's no real surprise that out of all the DJs on the Mnus camp Magda was the next selection for a DJ mix. After all, her mix tapes were hot items in Detroit in the late nineties; right before Hawtin hand picked her out of a slew of talented DJs to be his protege on the road. So armed with a slew of exclusive tracks from her friends and labelmates, Final Scratch DJ software and a whole lot of moxie Magda sets off on a seventy track excursion through the state of minimal, circa 2006. Like her mentor Hawtin, the 70 tracks come at a frenetic pace, with tracks rushing in and fading out just as fast as they appear. But unlike Hawtin, her selections have an undeniably funky edge (Metro Area, Larry Heard and The Persuader being the chief perpetrators) to them; not relying so much on the linear clinical nature of... tunes to layer one on top of another to prove a point about technology and music. And it's this funk which makes this mix not only more accessible at points than most mixes of the genre, but also much more enjoyable. This is a disciplined, focused mix (one of the best of 2006 to be sure) from a DJ whose time in the shadows making tea is now a mere memory. - Rob Theakston, All Music Guide Read more Less