"Electronic music means so much to my life. There's nothing like finding your style of music that you can turn to when your down and out and need a lift up, or when things are going rightly and you need some sonic accompaniment. And finding the sound you've been trying to produce since day one is even better. the answer (remastered) brought this sense of accomplishment to me as I finally felt I could produce not just a dance sound but my dance sound. Achievement, to me, is not synonymous with expertise, though, and as with everything in my life mastery is not something I believe in. There's always room to improve. In this light, I sought out another dance track. At the time, I was submitting tracks for review on generoproject.com as much as I could, and there was a paucity of vocal trax at that time. I thought I would break this trend by putting together a little tribute to the genre I had grown so fond of during my stay at genero.

This track was immensely fun to write. Once I came up with the poetry of the lyrics, the music practically wrote itself. Like the answer (remastered) I stuck with a soft synth menu for this track using mainly Superwave synths. As you can hear in the intro, I was experimenting with some new percussion sounds that were in their infancy at the time. I just wanted to create a new mid range percussion sound as the traditional instruments just never did it for me. While I don't use the knock sounds in this track anymore, they were a starting point for the evolved percussion you hear in The Hampton Megamix and the forthcoming tune "demon drive." Good times.

This song is a great example of how my approach to composition had changed since Anthem E, vow my love and other early trax. I moved away from numerous complicated melodies in each song and concentrated on a more focused song arrangement. Then I spent the extra time I working on the synth sounds and vocals themselves trying to make them sound as professional and phat as possible. Recording the vocals was fun (yes, that's me behind the lyrics), but tweaking them to have that disto robotic sound was even more fun. Same goes for the synthesizer melody that comes in at 03:47. Sometimes less is more and attention to detail really pays off.

I still enjoy listening to my older trax, but I have to admit that there is more than one in which I find myself saying, 'What was I thinking there,' or 'I can't believe I thought that sounded good.' I'm happy to say that 'Break the Dance' is not one of them. As my ode to electronic music, it provided a unique forum for which to let everyone know what this genre will always mean to me."

e-effect, 01/02/08

Break the dance let the rhythm flow through you,
The hiss on top and the kick below you.
Feel the flow of the miracle solo,
Energy so high you've got to,
Take the Trance and fill every memory,
Space and Time sealed with revery.
Your only task is not to ask,
And let the dance floor be your mask.