Life Cycles - The Advent (Cultivated Electronics)

Title: Life Cycles

Artist: The Advent

Label: Cultivated Electronics

Cat Number: CE035 

Genre: Electro

A1: Music Is Life

A2: This Is Not

B1: Electrical Sounds

B2: Vast

C1: L.U.

C2: Boogie Electro

C3: Live @ Motor 1998

D1: Stasis V2

D2: Panda

This album is, apparently, a mix of unreleased tracks from the nineties, as well as more current fare. Of course, it’s impossible to distinguish the old from the new, except maybe for ‘Live @ Motor 1998’ whose title gives the game away. The artwork also mimics that of debut album ‘Elements Of Life’, which ensures that the listener is in familiar territory, if nothing else. That being said, Cisco Ferreira’s sound is a timeless standard; his brand of raw, resolute electro is anything but mundane. The machine music still mutates into new and unexpected shapes; such as the incantatory bliss of ‘Stasis V2’, the frictional grind of ‘This Is Not’, the elastic ‘Panda’ and the appropriately post-industrial ‘Live At Motor 1998’. Mainly though, the emphasis is on rapid-paced machine funk: ‘Boogie Electro’, ‘L.U.’, ‘Electrical Sounds’ ‘Vast’ and ‘Music Is Life’ all relentlessly deliver in order to ensure that you haven’t heard it all before. Blisteringly brilliant.