Acen apex

This video for the Monolithikmaniak mix of “Window in the Sky” - only to be found in this fuzzy, off-TV video cassette recording - is some kind of audio-video apex of its era. The chaste frenzy of the female dancers, who look like twins, but aren’tThe sound, so original and consummate - not techno but pure rave: those swoops and the squitty synth riffs that mash and mesh into the breakbeats, which are choppige at its most advanced yet also pop euphoric.Here is something blogged 20 bleedin years ago about “Window” - first installment of an unfinished (barely started, more like) series:instalment one of an irregular seriesTHE TOP 300 HARDCORE RAVE TUNES OF ALL TIME300/ Acen, "Window In the Sky" (Production House, 1993)"Window In the Sky" was Acen's "River Deep Mountain High." After such a colossus was spurned by both general public and hardcore rave scene, what else was there to do but retreat from view. (Well there was a cool trip-hoppy thing as Spacepimp on Clear several years later,…