Purplewave - Rico Casazza (Dionysian Mysteries)

Title: Purplewave

Artist: Rico Casazza 

Label: Dionysian Mysteries

Cat Number: DM005

Genre: Electro

1: Purplewave

2: Rainmaker

3: Enada Mello

4: Purplewave (No Moon Remix)

5: Purplewave (Silicon Scally Remix)

6: Supercluster

This opens momentously; a big sky and sweeping, emotive belches of sound accompanied an emotive arsenal of percussion. It feels like shoegaze in a centrifuge. Artfully done with a large side salad of melancholia. Both remixes offer something a little different as might be expected: No Moon’s is a restrained horizontal electro chug, while Silicon Scally sticks a bit closer to the original, retaining a lot of its depth. ‘Rainmaker’ dabbles with electro, and the result is a pleasing, sub-aquatic journey, while ‘Supercluster’ and ‘Enada Mello’ branch out into the realms of breaks and acid respectively, the latter soars while the other is cloaked in layers of fog. All in all a very versatile and skillful piece of work which shows great promise and imagination.