![ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - 202 - Polysick [Planet Mu]
Rome’s Egisto Sopor has been making little waves with his releases for quite a while now. Since we’ve known him he’s released a cdr album on Legowelt’s Strange Life Records and put a cassette out on the much admired 100% Silk label, both under the name ‘Polysick’. As ‘TheAwayTeam’ he’s released a DVD ‘Relax & Sleep’ and a cd ‘Star Kinship’ on Japanese label Moamoo. He is also one half of the low key video unit AAVV, whose work has graced many of the important releases of new lofi electronic movement.
Well, here is his first album proper ‘Digital Native‘, 15 tracks of glowing, nocturnal, analogue grace that hark back to acid house and early techno, but with a mood and intent that seems to be designed for watching images dance on closed eyelids. It’s no surprise that his work as a video artist resonates so strongly with the music he makes.
Polysick says of his approach, “When i make music I always have a visual part in mind. In this case, many of the tracks have been influenced by visions of tribal nocturnal mysterious explorations like in ‘Preda’ which is the italian word for “quarry”. I tried to convey a sense of mystery and danger with those swirling flutes and the timpani rolls too, like if you were in the middle of a jungle, in a deep dark night and you’re running away through the trees, haunted, like in some of those old zombie splatter movies from the 80’s.. same with ‘Tic-Tac Toe’, with that clock ticking and the deep bass...”
Polysick has tapped straight into the synthetic pleasures of early dance music’s otherworldly pulses, the hypnotic arpeggios of Italo disco, soaring Detroit chords, cosmic disco, the ’4th World’ music of Jon Hassell and the library exotics of Piero Umiliani. This is body music for the resting body, Imagine a nexus between early acid house and Italo music being used for mental therapy, exotic travelling and imagining, exciting the brain waves and journeying into imagined spaces. ‘Digital Native’ is set in this imagined line of enquiry..[source]
TRACKLIST:
[01] - Robert Rich - Rainforest Suite (Drumsong)[02] - Piero Umiliani - Messaggio dall’Oriente[03] - Monopoly Child Star Searchers - Bouganvillea’s Shallow Lobe (Premiere Desire)[04] - Haruomi Hosono & Tadanori Yokoo - Hotel Malabar Roof Garden …Revel Attack…[05] - Michael Brook with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno - Distant Village[06] - Polysick - Preda[07] - 3Chairs - No Drum Machine pt.2[08] - 808 State - Sunrise[09] - Psyche/BFC - Sleep[10] - Drexciya - Cascading Celestial Giants[11] - TheAwayTeam - Unreleased
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ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - 202 - Polysick [Planet Mu]
Rome’s Egisto Sopor has been making little waves with his releases for quite a while now. Since we’ve known him he’s released a cdr album on Legowelt’s Strange Life Records and put a cassette out on the much admired 100% Silk label, both under the name ‘Polysick’. As ‘TheAwayTeam’ he’s released a DVD ‘Relax & Sleep’ and a cd ‘Star Kinship’ on Japanese label Moamoo. He is also one half of the low key video unit AAVV, whose work has graced many of the important releases of new lofi electronic movement.
Well, here is his first album proper ‘Digital Native‘, 15 tracks of glowing, nocturnal, analogue grace that hark back to acid house and early techno, but with a mood and intent that seems to be designed for watching images dance on closed eyelids. It’s no surprise that his work as a video artist resonates so strongly with the music he makes.
Polysick says of his approach, “When i make music I always have a visual part in mind. In this case, many of the tracks have been influenced by visions of tribal nocturnal mysterious explorations like in ‘Preda’ which is the italian word for “quarry”. I tried to convey a sense of mystery and danger with those swirling flutes and the timpani rolls too, like if you were in the middle of a jungle, in a deep dark night and you’re running away through the trees, haunted, like in some of those old zombie splatter movies from the 80’s.. same with ‘Tic-Tac Toe’, with that clock ticking and the deep bass...”
Polysick has tapped straight into the synthetic pleasures of early dance music’s otherworldly pulses, the hypnotic arpeggios of Italo disco, soaring Detroit chords, cosmic disco, the ’4th World’ music of Jon Hassell and the library exotics of Piero Umiliani. This is body music for the resting body, Imagine a nexus between early acid house and Italo music being used for mental therapy, exotic travelling and imagining, exciting the brain waves and journeying into imagined spaces. ‘Digital Native’ is set in this imagined line of enquiry..[source]
TRACKLIST:
[01] - Robert Rich - Rainforest Suite (Drumsong)
[02] - Piero Umiliani - Messaggio dall’Oriente
[03] - Monopoly Child Star Searchers - Bouganvillea’s Shallow Lobe (Premiere Desire)
[04] - Haruomi Hosono & Tadanori Yokoo - Hotel Malabar Roof Garden …Revel Attack…
[05] - Michael Brook with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno - Distant Village
[06] - Polysick - Preda
[07] - 3Chairs - No Drum Machine pt.2
[08] - 808 State - Sunrise
[09] - Psyche/BFC - Sleep
[10] - Drexciya - Cascading Celestial Giants
[11] - TheAwayTeam - Unreleased
![Derrick May @ Weekend Circuit 1st Birthday, Rhythm Factory, London - 07-04-2012
Derrick May/Transmat Playing Next @ http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/derrickmay
Weekend_Circuit - www.weekendcircuit.com
TRACKLIST:
0.01:14 Mateo & Matos - Rainbow 0.03.28 Dennis Ferrer - Transitions 0.07.31 Delano Smith - Midnight Hours 0.11.31 Robytek & Shield - Rendez-vouz 0.17.14 Omar S - skynet [2b] (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) 0.29.44 Matthew Dear - Little People (Black City) (Sascha Dive Dub Remix) 0.35.23 DJinxx - Tension 0.42:14 Mike Dehnert - Pneumatic 0.48.21 Joey Beltram - Energy Flash 0.52.58 T.S.O.S. - Over and Over 1.07.43 Mathew Jonson - Dayz 1.12:40 thyl & Flori - Shelter (Rolando Mix) 1.14.46 Code 718 - Equinox (Henrik Schwarz Remix - Dixon Edit) 1.26.09 Glimpse And Martin Eyerer - Southern Soul (Stephan Hinz Remix) 1.43.18 Ben Sims - Go Bang Remix (Unreleased) 2.02.47 Carl Craig - At Les (Christian Smith Hypnotica Remix) 1.54.38 Mendo & Soulrack & Mikel_e - I Like It (Wally Lopez & Ismael Rivas Factomania Remix) 2.07.08 Robert Hood - And then we planned our escape 2.24.39 Bayaka - Message from 2.26.06 Kunyuki Takahashi - Dear African Sky (Henrik Schwarz Remix) 2.31.33 Ame -Rej 2.51.33 Frederico Grazzini - Nova
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![May Floor Moods mixed by Msendy
TRACKLIST:
1. Ralph Session & E-Man – Release The Demons (Stephan Hoellermann Remix)[Seshified] 2. Incognito – Freedom To Love (Atjazz Instrumental Remix) [Reel People] 3. Simon Mattson – The Story Of [Lo:Rise] 4. Dale Howard – Take Down [Static Audio] 5. Andre Detoxx – Playa Den Bossa (Alvaro Hylander remix) [Dislosure Project] 6. Doc Link feat J Paul Ghetto – Freedom (Doc Link’s Massage Therapy Inst) [Liberate] 7. Mr. Beatnick – Sun Goddess [Don’t Be Afraid] 8. Franck Roger – I Take You Up (Instrumental) [Circus Company] 9. SoulPhiction – S 950 Recovery [Philpot] 10. DJ T. feat. Khan – Leavin’ Me (Clockwork C/W Remix) [Get Physical] 11. Manolo – Lose Myself [Delusions Of Grandeur] 12. SourceEll ft BlaQ Ninja – Musicology (Tempo BPM Praise Mix) [Black Label]
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