Day Of Reckoning - Templefeld by Kirk Degiorgio (Midnight Shift)

 

Title: Day Of Reckoning

Artist: Templefeld by Kirk Degiorgio

Label: Midnight Shift

Cat Number: MNSX019

Genre: Techno

 

A1: Titan

A2: Day Of Reckoning

B1: Vertical Life (Anthony Child Remix)

B2: Vertical Life

 

Blending into the break beat background, but with plenty to make it stand out, ‘Titan’ is a masterpiece of deadpan beats aligned with undulating sonics, which builds until it flat lines in an intense electronic embrace. ‘Day Of Reckoning’ is even better, turning up the euphoria count on account of its chiasmic keys caught in a symphonic slipstream.The Anthony Child remix of ‘Vertical Life’ starts off like The Velvet Underground’s ‘Heroin’, which is no bad thing. This transforms into a fragmented drone but the bittersweet jangling thankfully remains intact. The original of ‘Vertical Life’ couldn't be more different in approach, sounding like a fusion project from Compass Point Studios, but similar in its dreamily optimistic tone. It’s brilliant on every level is what I say.