Virus

This is an absolute awesome album the live set is mind blowing it always my hand slapping on the car roof with the window open and bassline thumping .....having met Les and Adam it always brings a smile to my face

Ok

This double cd is explosive, it's hard hitting, its a must for all hard house fans, its Lab 4. They've been rocking some of the worlds biggest dancefloors for over 2 years now and this cd truly reflects their individual style. They mix their music live and it has some of the hardest, most fastest and fierce beats around at the moment. CD 1 contains all their latest tracks from Be my lover, a slightly more sedate track right up to the hard and extremely fast Ressurrection. I couldn't stop stamping my feet when i heard it. CD 2 is a bonus cd containing a set that was recorded live in tokyo. It had me grinning from the word go, having seen them live this really brought back a lot of mad memories from Sundissential and Insomniacz where they are regulars. If you've never heard of them it is still well worth a listen as you can't say whether music is hard until you've heard these guys.

Having got all of Lab4's CD albums as far back as R.T.H and Alien, it is difficult to imagine how these guys just keep pushing it further and further and with Virus I've got to wonder where are the limits!This is the best yet. Hard, heavy,fast and exploding with the dynamism that only Lab4 can lay on you.From the gentler titles like "be my lover" to the dramatic vocals and pounding of "resurrection" the whole collection of tracks is compulsive and if it doesn't make you move you are probably dead.Another brilliant CD with graphics and layout as manic as the music.

Lab 4 are huge of course, and arguably pioneered the thrashy hardcore sound which pushed that harder edge of hard house today. I'd heard almost every single one of these tracks before, which is to be expected I suppose, although it did remind me that commercially released albums are mostly behind the frontline of the clubbing scene. I wanted to have the opportunity to hear pure Lab 4 in my living room though, away from the madness of a club! And i got to say i was slightly disappointed. Some of the harder tracks for sure have their distinctive sampled searing sound, which I love, yet listened to at home, I realise just how simple and repetitive these tracks are. Majorly pared-down was my feeling. And just to emphasise where I'm coming from - my audio collection is [almost] entirely hard dance, whether it's hard house, hard trance or a fusion. It's just that in 2002, I'm kinda disapppointed to hear such simplistic tracks from such a legendary band, when you have such complex, beautiful sounds emerging from other hard labels, which make this album sound slightly backward in my ears at least.