Title: Atoms To Atoms
Artist: Zodiac Childs
Label: Zodiac Wax
Cat Number: ZW005
Genre: Parallel Rave
A1: Submersion
A2: Circuits
B1: Basic Process
B2: The Gevil (Zodiac Childs & Baraqiel)
C1: Kepler Track Two (Zodiac Childs & Baraqiel)
C2: O To The M (Album Mix)
D1: Breach
D2: Goblin (Zodiac Childs & Baraqiel)
E1: Champion Rush
E2: Critical Sign
F1: Northern Fury
F2: Channels
Striking a balance between conceptual rave and primal soup, ‘Atoms To Atoms’ is a polished and layered tilt at documenting a moment in the hardcore continuum’s existence by time stretching that instance in order to allow it to attain cosmic proportions. ‘Kepler Track Two’ with its Carl Sagan samples being an obvious nod in this direction. The tracks generally function on a foundation of intergalactic synth swathes and embrace break beats of varying intensity as their prime source of momentum. There’s an awful lot of it going on, but here it’s raised to the level of symphonic, (‘Breach’), as well as elemental (‘Goblin’), a photon torpedo of a track, its bass firing shock waves across synapse fault lines. There are more fractured, chasmal episodes, such as in ‘Champion Rush’, ‘Circuits’ and the standout ‘Basic Process’, adding to the overriding, universal feel of expansion and eventual rupture. It’s not an easy state to define, as there are so many cliches to avoid. Thankfully, this isn’t an issue for this composite Hadron Collider of pulse systems, which finishes with the post-rave stylings of ‘Channels’, a track which eloquently recalls hazy late spring sunrises and elicits onomatopoeic optimism.
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