Desolate – The invisible insurrection (Album review)
Feb 27, 2011 Blogging Bee, What to listen to
I must admit Chillout is a Sunday’s thing, not just because friskyRadio plays it all Sunday long, though it contributes. I haven’t listened to much ambient music since a while now, mainly because I work on Sundays on my personal music projects, yep the sets that you hear on the radio, those ones. So there isn’t much room for anything else, as compiling tracks and sets is a time consuming activity.
So now that I have a day off from compilations and house tracks, I decided to peak at an album that has been lying around my music library for a while, “The invisible insurrection” by Desolate released on Fauxpa’s vinyl-only record label.
Desolate is a German based producer with lots of, huge talents.
This album is a subtle blend between ambient and rhythmic patterns ranging from dub to more atmospheric sophisticated parts. The album transports you in great dimension, and projects you in a world of dreams and unconscious depth of your inner soul. The pads and delayed pianos give the tracks a certain finesse, it’s like seeing water drops in slow motion. In fact, it slows down time around you. The soft rhythm lays in the background as a secondary non intrusive instrument, giving way to a spacial and wide stereo experience. The dub influence gives every tune a contemporary personality leading to a successful marriage of genres.
The opening track “Imagination” starts the journey off with a complex trip hop rhythmic pattern, leading the way to a journey on a hip hill. “Follow suit” blends in and slows down the whole experience and definitely hooks you on board. What follows is a series of dub and ambient droplets, sounds meets lights. “Farewell #2″ is an amazing track bringing you a cinematic experience full of emotions and sensitivity. “Escape” is a breathing like track, with an out of this world bass drop, guaranteed to make your heart beat go as low as ever before! As the journey continues, “Endurance” re-awakes you into a dub rhythmic world with a soft delayed piano.
You would have guessed by now, this album isn’t just a mere Ambient/Chillout album, it is a rich experience of sounds and lights. It is best savored with a very good stereo setup or very good earphones to maximize the “immersive” experience. It’s a lot of feelings and hot/cold sensations. If you like ambient and dub melts, this is your album.
I will surely be listening to it for a long while!
Have a good Sunday.
Tags: Album Review, ambient, Chillout, Desolate, the invisible insurrection
G!&Special_Kase – Qamat Mariam
Jan 24, 2010 Blogging Bee, What to listen to
[Rating:4.5/5]
If you haven’t heard of G!&Special_Kase then you must have missed something. Here’s your chance to get to know them and follow their “special” music approach.
This duo has successfully remixed many genres and classics, revisiting them with their great sense of creativity. This pure experimention with music motto gives their music another density and dimension. I realized that they chose their targeted originals from the news of the moment. However some tracks just get dropped out of nowhere into our ears and Qamat Mariam is one of them.
They remixed a very famous Lebanese icon, Fairouz, with a chilly and smooth low tempo vision. I couldn’t have imagined it otherwise if remixed.
Grab and listen to it here
Follow G!&Special_Kase on Soundcloud by visiting their page here
Tags: Chillout, G!, Microlove records, Music, Special_Kase
