TIMESQUARE - DREAM MIXES 2

No one knew it at the time (probably not even TD themselves) that with their "just for fun" remix project of 1995, "Dream Mixes One", they would launch yet another creative avenue that would take the band into uncharted territories once more like so many times during the bands long career. This time it was the club scene that made it's presence felt in TD's music. The first Dream Mixes album was an enjoyable but rather rough and ready affair with the emphasis on beats rather than melodic refinement or inventiveness but by the time the second came along 3 years later they had truly understood the creative potential of their new musical direction and "Time Square-Dream Mixes II" was a very different proposal. This time they unleashed all the originality that has always been an integral part of TD's music into the remixing concept and the result was sheer delight. "Time Square" simply bursts out of the speakers with beats by the plenty but also with all the artistic vision and scope of an "ordinary" TD album. By the early 90's TD had lost their way and were clearly floundering,searching for a new direction and with the advent of dance/trance/drum'n'bass,they realised the potential for rejuvenating their music through these influences and by the time of "Time Square" in 98 they had already utilized these influences on albums like "Tyranny Of Beauty" and "Goblin's Club" (and "Dream Mixes One of course") so by the time they made "Time Square" they had understood and harnessed the qualities of this type of music and become masters of integrating it within the framework of TD's music,giving the band a much needed vitamin injection and steering them safely towards the future. "Time Square" is a modern TD masterpiece and one of my all time TD favourites,worthy to stand alongside any TD classics from the 70's and 80's.