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Guts Of Darkness
(CAN)
Electronic music, as we know it, is in full evolution. More and more, we
discover artists who combine the broad outline of Berlin School to couple
them on rhythms or modulations which approach soft techno.
Dorian’s 2nd opus is a revelation in this new crenel. It’s tinted of an
atmosphere to the strange amplitudes that begin Industrial Love. A
penetrating wind, dark and worrying, floats on the top of Alternative World,
where strange gutturals sonorities, punctuate a dark firmament.
Always also dark, Dark Tunnel reflects its title on section cups pulsations.
However, the melody is beautiful and floats in an industrial sidereal world
with steel modulations. I like the sphere of influences of synth which
undulates, such a snake ready to bite. But this dark atmosphere is quickly
diluted with Cold Win.
A beautiful soft techno title with a beautiful melodious set of themes, at
the same time jazzy and lounge, a little in the Jean Michel Jarre style, but
who makes a too sharp cut after a very intriguing start.
It is with Moving Lights that we note more the fusion of the 2 kinds. If the
entry is a true Berlin School, with its intro sequenced loops on a
background of echo and a beautiful hopping bass line, the rhythm explodes
around the 3rd minute mark, on a technoïde tempo with tschitt tschitt
cymbals on one synth with broad loops and superb sinuous solos. A very
electronic title with analog savour, to modulated tempos and a beautiful
atmospheric passage stuff of cosmic sound effects.
Emerals Lake is the most ambient title on Industrial Love. Soft synth with
fluty sonority extends in a halieutic atmosphere where astral choirs are
moulded with synthetic modulations.
Past Life is a suave title, lancinating and full of sensuality. The
percussions are flabby on a languorous synth with very suggestive nuances on
modulations. A title which has a sonority equivalent to Cold Win. Either a
very slow soft techno, but of an arousing slowness, with superb percussions
that enter in our skin.
Far Away is in the same mould, though less sensual, but the solos are superb
just like the percussions. Always under the charm of Past Life, Place of
Dream intrigues with its droning intro where a female-intonated voice forges
an ethnic incantation, light percussions staccato passage awake a rhythm
which becomes hammering on one clannish synth.
Place of Dream is an incredible title with solids percussions and strange
synth that exploits ethnical voices. A trick that I had never heard before
and which makes a great effect. Half way between techno and the electronics
acid of Delirium, Place of Dream has a wild tempo on orchestral choirs and
synths. It is the kind of title which makes say 'WoW!'. Very
impressive.
Industrial Love closes this 2nd Dorian effort, with a magnetic and dusty
intro where the keys burst in a diagram of reverberations, diffusing their
waves in multi circles. The rhythm ignites on a languorous tempo, with the
fine metal scratches which flirt with strange voices of industrial sirens. A
title with the moderate tempos and misty synth, which wrap a heteroclite
universe that Dorian seems to control with wonder.
Industrial Love is a collection of 9 titles to various orientations which
concentrate on a crossing between Berlin School and the soft techno. There
are strokes of geniuses a little everywhere which let foresee an extremely
promising future for Dorian Przystalski. A great title, better and more
daring than it’s first opus, Antimatter.
Sylvain Lupari, 2008
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