CIREZ D Vinilo y CD

Review: When Eric Prydz fancies offering up some forthright, warehouse-ready techno, he fires up the Mouseville label and dons the Cirez D alias. Clearly, he's in a rave-igniting mood right now, because this two-tracker is the first Cirez D outing - and Mouseville release - for almost two years. There's a definite "massive room" vibe emerging from A-side "Valborg", where decidedly foreboding lead lines and ghostly chords ride a chunky, Drumcode-friendly techno beat. The saucer-eyed, hands-aloft "festival techno" feel continues on flipside "The Raid", which cleverly peppers a house-tempo rhythm track with the sort of raw, razor-sharp riffs more often found in neo-trance productions.

Review: The Swedish techno hero Eric Prydz is back under the Cirez D alias, which has kicked into action full throttle recently - alongside music under the Pryda and ToNjA Holma monikers. His new main room thumper "Dare You" comes courtesy of his own esteemed imprint. From the title track and its tunnelling adventure down into the vortex, to the strobe-lit adrenaline of "The Glitch" or "Black Hole" with its druggy mid-noughties style of minimal shuffle: there's something to rock the dancefloor at any time of the morning by this A.M. expert - on Mouseville's 24th vinyl edition.

Review: It was way back in 2004 when Eric Prydz decided to launch the Mouseville label as a vehicle for his techno productions under the Cirez D alias. While missives have been few and far between in recent years, both producer and label returned with bang back in June with the In The Reds 12". Happily, the Swede is in fine form again here, expertly combining trance style electronic riffs and thunderous techno beats on the stomping, club-ready "Backlash". In contrast, "The Tournament" is a much more groove-driven affair, with Prydz utilizing additional percussion hits - made out of the sound of ping-pong balls hitting bats and tables - to increase the energy throughout.

Review: Superstar Eric Prydz is back under his lesser known Cirez D alias for some slamming peak time techno on his Mouseville imprint. The brutal "In The Reds' lives up to its name with its hoovering bassline and slamming beat engineered for peak-time festival main stage madness! He shows a bit more restraint on the flip; "Century Of The Mouse" burns away with a grinding arpeggio, faint mentasms in the background and the metallic hiss of the 909 lurking in background. Hard!