VA-Solarstone_Presents_Electronic_Architecture_4-(BHCD215)-2CD-FLAC-2021-WRE

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2021-05-18

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     Artist......: VA
     Album.......: Solarstone Presents Electronic Architecture 4

     Source......: CD
     Label.......: Black Hole Recordings
     Cat.No......: BHCD215
     Genre.......: Electronic

     Tracks......: 31
     Bitrate.....: 929 kbps avg
     Playtime....: 02:28:08  (1041MB)
     Rls date....: 2021-05-14
     Store date..: 2021-05-14
     Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1


     Disc 1 / 2
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     01 Super-Frog Saves Tokyo - Lament                                  3:10
     02 Nick Silvestri - Little Things                                   4:49
     03 Vincent Lewis - Pulse Train                                      6:56
     04 Xabiso - Children of the Night (Reconstruction)                  5:52
     05 Andrei Zinca - Wildflower (Reconstruction)                       4:58
     06 V-Ti - Space Dogs (Reconstruction)                               3:26
     07 Passive Progressive ft. Sentient Mullet - Fluke                  5:04
        (Reconstruction)
     08 Forerunners - Sunreturn                                          3:43
     09 Solarstone - When I Dream (Kryder Remix)                         4:57
     10 Basil O'Glue & Nomas - Untold                                    3:21
     11 Solarstone & Bill McGruddy - Take Me On Your Flight (Acapella)   3:13
     12 DISCO19 - The Sea of Stars (Reconstruction)                      4:11
     13 Solarstone - Pale Blue Dot                                       6:22
     14 Lostly - We're Descending (Reconstruction)                       5:00
     15 Solarstone & Orkidea - Slowmotion VI                             6:30
     16 Coredata - 94 (Reconstruction Part One)                          3:30


     Disc 2 / 2
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     01 Coredata - 94 (Reconstruction Part Two)                          3:27
     02 MK8 - Breathe                                                    3:26
     03 Men-D - Dropped by the Gods (Reconstruction)                     2:00
     04 Stowers & Cooper ft Brooke Woods - Shattered Skies (Acapella)    3:09
     05 Alucard - Midway                                                 3:19
     06 Gary Afterlife - Wavering Light (Reconstruction)                 3:56
     07 ZOYA - Bright Star (Reconstruction)                              4:40
     08 Shadow Realm - Other Side of the Sky                             6:31
     09 Martin LeBlanc - Lagom                                           5:54
     10 Glynn Alan - Limitless                                           6:24
     11 Super-Frog Saves Tokyo - Kyoto (Reconstruction)                  7:08
     12 Macker - Lost in Space (Simon Bostock Remix)                     6:23
     13 Stoneface & Terminal - Lose My Need (Reconstruction)             7:08
     14 Solarstone & Dreams of Wires - Equilibrium                       6:15
     15 Alucard - Phoenix                                                3:26



     ItÆs been seven years - and some long ones at that - since Solarstone last
     designed and constructed an æElectronic ArchitectureÆ. While æEAsÆ 1 thru
     æ3' maintained a regular release pulse, with each year that followed 2014,
     the seriesÆ absence has been felt evermore acutely.

     Whilst never down to one factor, Pure TranceÆs capturing of the sceneÆs
     zeitgeist, and the unchecked success that followed played no small part.
     Like æislandÆ (last yearÆs out-of-nowhere Solarstone LP), its return though
     is down to something far more appreciable. The last twelve months have
     brought a step change in electronic music needs and with æPure TranceÆ
     receiving a well-earned mix-sabbatical last autumn, itÆs allowed the
     cultural time, space and climate for something many had consigned to
     Solarstone legacy.

     Aside from the pulsingly positive multi-coloured lights that emanate from
     within its cube, the æArthitectureÆ of the fourth æArchitectureÆ is visibly
     more brutalist & current-day resonant than its predecessors. Its musical
     remit though remains timelessly unchanged. Tonally & thematically, æEA4Æ
     owns the equidistant middleground between the æNorthern ExposureÆ and
     æRenaissanceÆ albums. Never seeing the electronica-extremes of the former,
     nor quite as floor-intense as the latter, their progressivism hits the
     perfect median between.

     Despite being offered as a physical item (how could something this
     beautiful not!), digitally æElectronic Architecture 4Æ has been devised as
     a start-through-finish listening experience. The new nonpareil of the
     kick-back-æn-musically-trip encounter, its soundscape has few û if any -
     modern parallels.

     As ever the musical backbone of this new release is made up of creatives
     whoÆve cut their teeth on previous Solarstone projects and new talent,
     freshly recruited to its ranks. In regard to the former, new music resounds
     from the likes of Lostly, Basil OÆGlue, Stoneface & Terminal, Super-Frog
     Saves Tokyo, Forerunners, Nick Silvestri and others. To its
     new-talent-latter meanwhile, Solarstone has gone further than ever before
     in uncovering it. As well as welcoming an influx of new music through the
     front door, he scoured the InternetÆs forum-highways & Bandcamp-byways in
     search of promise. When he found it - even in its most embryonic form, no
     effort was spared to cultivate it for æEA4Æ. Case in point, æEquilibriumÆ -
     the albumÆs penultimate track. Nominally a one-minute software demo from
     technologist Dreams Of Wires, Solarstone worked with just the briefest of
     melody ideas to bring Dreams his first fully realised production.


     Whilst on its comeback-track, æElectronic ArchitectureÆ experienced more
     than its fair share of stars-aligning moments. Halfway into production,
     regular Solarstone collaborator Alucard announced the end of his retirement
     by dropping an albumÆs worth of material into æEAÆs demo box - several of
     which found their way into its mix. Richard also stumbled across a
     twelve-year-old ælost-tapeÆ track from Vincent Lewis (who û fact-fans -
     went on to direct SolarstoneÆs æElectric LoveÆ video!). In essence a
     musical time capsule dating back to æEAÆs most embryonic times, æPulse
     TrainÆ became part of the albumÆs opening stages. æWe're DescendingÆ -
     LostlyÆs stunning latest - arrived within hours of Rich needing something
     to further a moodier tranche, whilst opening track æLamentÆ by Super-Frog
     Saves TokyoÆs landed a day after the project commenced. In timely fashion
     the album also hosts new Solarstone production æPale Blue DotÆ, his &
     OrkideaÆs sixth æSlowmotionÆ and KryderÆs desk-hot remix of æislandÆs æWhen
     I DreamÆ.

     Key as ever to æElectronic ArchitectureÆs constitution are SolarstoneÆs own
     Reconstructions - eleven of which feature over the duration. Not remixes,
     re-edits or re-imaginings exactly, they are versions that bring incredible
     tracks into line with the seriesÆ sonic ethic, as Richard does everything
     from tweak to wholesale reconfigure them to fit.

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