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ARTiST....: luke solomon
TiTLE.....: demons ep
LABEL.....: Crosstown rebels
GENRE.....: electronic
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 39,6 MB
REL.DATE..: nov-18-2007
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01] return to darkly 10:26
02] brennan remix 07:23
03] the devil is an englishm 07:38
04] demons 07:24
TOTAL TiME : 32:51 min
From ibiza-voice.com:
The last few months have seen the acid revival
flourishing. From the mainstream - Defected's
surprised re-release of Josh Wink's Higher State
Of Consciousness- to the underground Jamie Jones'
banging Should Have Gone Home.
We've been treated to a whole electric kool-aid
acid test's worth of freaked out, fucked up,
bad-for-you sounds. Luke Solomon has taken the
trend a step further with his latest Demons EP,
which contains a contemporary take on acid house
that is simultaneously so fresh and so totally
authentic it will fry any remaining functioning
synapses.
It's not the title track, Demons, a propulsive
funky cut in its own right, riddled with creaking
synths and a fantastic old fashioned tribal-esque
vocal, but rather Return To Darkly. The title
sounds like it's been ripped off from a rubbish
Hammer Horror movie but the music belongs entirely
to Solomon's thrillingly warped imagination. A
swirling melange of stabbing basslines and eerie
birdsong (or are those high-pitched cries
something more sinister?) at first, the middle
section of the track slows and unfurls in a welter
of spooky effects and 80s video game whistles and
bleeps. The tension ratchets up gradually till a
suitably Gothic vocal intones "return to where you
came/return to Darkly " - the queue for a
head-rushing blast of driving acid beats. Unlike
many club records (which it clearly is) it is so
subtly effective you want to sit and listen to it
over and over again. It makes you want to crawl
inside the tune and figure out why it sounds so
cool.
The remaining tracks, while not as insistently
brilliant as Return To Darkly, provide it with
appropriate company. The Devil Is An Englishman,
as well has having a great name, is a lighter,
bleepier interpretation of the acid sound. This
cut sits somewhere between the tweak-and-bleep
vibe of minimal techno and the fatter sounds of
old school house. Again, it displays a luxuriant
progression. This is no one-trick, build-and-break
dancefloor pony. It stretches and swells and
shifts gears and plucks sounds in and out like a
kid fiddling with a Jenga set. The result is,
again, heady.
Rounding out the selection is Brennan Green's
remix of Demons which should perhaps be called the
"a long time ago in a galaxy far away " mix for
its weird conglomeration of spaced out melodies
and exotic eastern vibes. If they were dropping
microdots on the Millennium Falcon this is what
they would want to be listening to. It's the
psychedelic yin to the driving yang of the rest of
the EP and a rather nice way to finish off. But
it's the spooky, exuberant throb of Return To
Darkly to which you'll keep, well, returning.
Buy me if you love me :)