VRIL/HVL - Far Field EP (Reclaim The Streets)

 

Title: Far Field EP 

Artist: VRIL/HVL - 

Label: Reclaim The Streets

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Genre: Techno

A1: VRIL – Lost Togetner

A2: VRIL Fnord feat. RÆYN 

A3: VRIL – We Believe

B1: HVL – Far Field

B2: HVL – Lancet Mxi

A very assured release this, balancing two tracks from Georgian maestro HVL with three from VRIL straight out of Germany, ‘Far Field’ is a purposeful drift of a track. Synths sway in and put of the mix on a bed of piston-like beats that sound like the power source of a giant clockwork space ship. ‘Lancet Mxi’ is something similar, but less straightforward; using break beats that feel denser and more compressed than those of ‘Far Field’ over a fluctuating psychedelic chasm in order to effect a feeling of sunlit bliss. As for VRIL, we’ve got ominous electro in the shape of ‘Fnord feat. RÆYN ‘, which sounds like  part of a lost soundtrack to ‘Hellraiser’ Funnily enough, that’s also exactly what ‘Lost Together;’ soujnds like as well. Dense, full of foreboding and dripping with dread. ‘We Believe’ is a departure from the darkness. A piece of crisp trance that doesn’t get ahead of itself. It’s also the track that’s there to transport you from the comparative bleakness of the preceding two tunes.