SNKRX08 - J-Shadow (Sneaker Social Club)

 

Title: SNKRX08  

Artist:  J-Shadow

Label: Sneaker Social Club

Cat Number: SNKRX08  

Genre: Hardcore Tapestry

1: Fade

2: Kugelblitz (The Inescapable Reward)

3: Diffraction

4: Atlantis

5: Particle Horizon

6: Hibernation Lumina Falls

There’s a wonderfully disembodied feel to this release, bookended as it is by a couple of tracks which straddle the hardcore/ambient divide as much as it is possible to so. In view of this, a good sense of progression also. Like the third law of thermodynamics might say, everything gradually descends into chaos, but it’s ordered and logical. ‘Fade’ opens proceedings, gradually giving way along its atmospheric length to abrasion. This builds, with ‘Kugelblitz (The Inescapable Reward)’ having a similar, but fuller-bodied outlook.

‘Diffraction’ and ‘Atlantis’ maintain a momentum which is restrained but still bursting at the seams. ‘Particle Horizon’ is peak obliteration and the storm before the calm of ‘Hibernation Lumina Falls’, which terminates an excellent release wide in scope and ambition.