The S&M lifestyle has always carried with it a certain amount of pre-fetishized iconography (leather, chains, clamps, etc), so it would make sense that for its two-disc (plus a bonus DVD) set of music from the epic Revelation S&M party, the good folks at the Sound Factory would package it in an appropriately fetishized way. Placed in an embossed round tin with a deliciously vulgar glossy-print rotating booklet, you get two CDs of SF man Jonathan Peters turning it out, mixing a fair amount of his own productions and mixes (as is ALWAYS the case with mix CDs- it's all about publishing, folks) with a great assortment of trancy and vocal house.
Peters' selection is impeccable, as he gives the vocal material new context in light of the pain/pleasure theme of the evening. The highlight (and personal fave) is Mac Quayle's incisive mix of Donna DeLory's "The Hurting," which should be a hit if anyone would put it out. DeLory's vocals have their own game of give-and-take with Quayle's synths, and Peters turns it all around by playing up the irony of the song's lyrics with the theme of punishment and pain. A nice addition to the voluminous glut of mixed CDs out there, you don't have to be into S&M to dig Peters' new CD.
-Catherine Woolf
