Wednesday, September 11, 2024

SIT - Urban Chronicles EP (Amphia)

 


Title: Urban Chronicles EP 

Artist: SIT

Label: Amphia

Cat Number: AMP025

Genre: Groovetastic


1: Synth City

2: Dreamworx

3: Parallel Pulses

4: Fabricated Odyssey



SIT is an acronym for Sideways Invisibility Theory and it is. for the uninitiated,  Cristian-Ioan Munteanu and Vlad Caia. This is their first release since 2019 and it’s gratifying to know that the hiatus hasn’t made a jot of difference to their ability to craft mind-bending deep sounds. ‘Dreamworx’ being a case in point; bearing more than a passing resemblance to Wulf & Bear’s classic ‘Raptures Of The Deep’, it embodies this duos efforts to create a groove that tunnels inside your cortex until it embeds itself in your soft and tenders. It’s this track and ‘Synth City’, a proggy piece of stellar symphonics that get my vote here. That’s not to say the others aren’t equally as good in their own way. Both ‘Parallel Pulses’ and ‘Fabricated Odyssey’ are great, but while the former is everything its precedents are, barring a life-defining low end, the latter could lose its vocal samples and come up trumps as a result. All in all though, a strong release that shows an innate understanding of the messy dimensions of the dance floor.

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