James Zabiela - Utilities

A year on and James Zabiela once again joins forces with Renaissance for the follow-up. Given his well-documented love and support of the CDJs, you'd think that a further homage to the joys of CD mixology would be in order, but in part you'd be wrong. James explains, "Since ALiVE, there has been a huge leap in computer software. Things are continuing to move forward at a rapid speed. I therefore felt it was really important I made of use of all these technologies - or UTILITIES (hence the name) - available." Aware of the long-running debate over formats, James hit upon his own unique idea to separate the technologies and let people draw their own conclusions. UTILITIES two discs therefore come as disc 1 - 'Computed' and disc 2 - 'Recorded'. As the names suggest, one uses the much publicized Ableton technology and has been programmed entirely on computer, whilst the other makes a welcome return to last year's format of CDJs, samplers and an EFX unit recorded live. "With this format on the album I've employed all the UTILITIES as I wanted to," elaborates James, "But it has also allowed me to lay down what is essentially a musical debate. For the first time on one album, by comparing both discs, people can draw their own conclusions as to what system they prefer."
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