Monday, October 24, 2022

Sound Synthesis - Hum Of Human Dreams (Furthur Electronix)

 


Title: Hum Of Human Dreams

Artist: Sound Synthesis

Label: Furthur Electronix

Cat Number: FE 077

Genre: Electro


A1: Cosmic Nights

A2: Simpa Harmonies

B1: Amen Acid

B2: Feeling Hazy

C1: Flowing Dreams

C2: I Will Find You

D1: Memories Of You

D2: 115BPM


Sound Synthesis, aka Keith Farrugia, has been releasing music for just over ten years. And coming from Malta, is probably as good an example as any to suggest that while he is a product of his environment, the only limits that the creative process has are those of the imagination. This, his third album in four years also marks the culmination of a hectic release schedule that has seen him become exponentially prolific over this period, which is great; as he is, as the pundits say, in a rich vein of form. This collection is a chimeric assembly of delicate washes of synthetic colour draped over dampened electro beats with acid fragility thrown in for good measure. Nowhere is this more evident than within the confines of 'I Will Find You’, which has a pastoral, organic quality and feels like a sunrise national anthem. This bittersweet, emotional aspect infuses the whole album and is unquantifiable. The industrious, break beat propelled ‘Amen Acid’, with its dramatic, Land Of The Rising Sun synth washes is as direct as it gets here. Furthermore, there is immense stamina in the production, the genius of which imbues each track with it’s signature magic. The riff on ‘Feeling Hazy’ recalls Drexciya’s much more frictional ‘Surface Terrestrial Colonization’ while ‘Cosmic Nights’, which kicks things off is perhaps the most elemental electro offering here, but again it blends serendipitous acid and unreal atmospherics to create a tapestry which is both industrial and organic simultaneously. This is a stunning piece of work from start to finish, utterly addictive and already timeless.


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