Artist(s) .........:: Planetary Assault Systems
Title .............:: Deep Heet Vol 4
Genre .............:: Techno
Record Label ......:: Mote Evolver
Catalogue Number ..:: MOTE050D
Source ............:: WEB
Quality ...........:: 320kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Full Stereo
Duration ..........:: 00:24:18 (55.8MB)
Release Date ......:: 14-10-2017
Support ...........:: https://www.beatport.com
Tracklist .........::
1. Desert Races 7:38
2. Life Rhythm 4:29
3. Random Kingdom 6:02
4. Lazer Organical 6:09
Release Note ......::
Since 2006, the Deep Heet series of recordings has shown the public an
especially distinctive side of the production work of Planetary Assault
Systems. With a unique 'engine room' ambience and a focus upon maintaining a
continual surge of pure energy, each volume in the Deep Heet collection has
lived up to that title, subtly suggesting the kind of sustained and voluntary
temperature rise that has traditionally given way to spiritual or visionary
experiences. Just check out tracks such as "Flat Tire" from Volume 3, with its
hard percussive edge accompanied by a pervasive hiss like boiling matter
changing into gas. P.A.S. helmsman Luke Slater also thinks highly enough of
this series to re-work tracks like "Whistle Viper" in recent live sets, or to
offer up others (e.g. "Raid") for remixing by Mote-Evolver allies.
It's only appropriate, then, that the 50th overall release on Mote-Evolver
should also be the fourth overall volume of Deep Heet. In keeping with Slater's
recent forward-thinking self-assessments like the "Planetary Funk" anniversary
series, this is simultaneously a summary of past successes and another new
evolution in style and content. This new set of four highly concentrated cuts
shows how effective Planetary Assault Systems can be at fueling the imagination
by fusing together rhythmic and incidental elements into a unified, animated
meshwork, without even a prominent melody to help out. For example, on the
compelling track "Lazer Organical," listeners will find themselves in the midst
of a testing range where thick arcs of coherent plasma ricochet off of the
walls.
Deep Heet Vol. 4 also showcases Slater's aptitude for choosing just the right
moments to deviate from a steady groove: on the mesmerizing bubblebath of
"Random Kingdom," he allows listeners to sink into the rising sonic foam before
interjecting with some sharp metallic hits. The leadoff track "Desert Races"
proceeds in similar fashion, weaving a web of luminous sequencer patterns
around the listener before and cutting in with sudden fluctuations or
distortions that function like a hypnotist's suggestions after an entranced
patient has become fully responsive. "Life Rhythm," on the other hand, is a
total immersion session in which Slater's presence seems to recede into the
background and listeners themselves may begin imagining overtones and sonic
ephemera that weren't programmed into the original track.