Synthetic Space, by Echium

Synthetic Space

by Echium

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JC Stunning use of sound design mixed with dubbed out atmospherics. Rewarded repeated listens. Echium proves to be a master technician already on this great debut. Favorite track: Activation.

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1.	Blended Textures 05:42	buy track
2.	Interlude 2.3 01:27	buy track
3.	Juum 04:40	buy track
4.	Synthetic Space 02:37	buy track
5.	Looum 04:12	buy track
6.	Ethereal 03:34	buy track
7.	Activation 05:04	buy track
8.	Jazz Interlude 01:04	buy track
9.	Synthetic Space (Perfume Advert Remix) 03:09	buy track
10.	Synthetic Space (Space Afrika Remix) 05:27	buy track

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Debut LP of rave reduction and ambient techno from mysterious Manchester producer Echium.

"The sferic label bubbles up from Manchester city centre with Echium’s debut suite of charming ambient gestures, neatly expanded by empathetic, weightless house remixes from Perfume Advert and Space Afrika.

Their mutual first move, Synthetic Space positions both Echium and sferic within a well rooted tradition of Berlin kosmische, dub and Detroit techno-informed electronics emanating from the rainy city.

Under its plasmic aura of stray electro-dub artefacts, aqueous rhythms and dusky chords, Synthetic Space effectively smudges distinctions between pre- and post- club sensations or states of mind, operating with a deftness of touch and conversational turn of phrase that connotes feelings caught between excitable, pill-belly anticipation and mercurial rambles that ribbon off into the morning light with a beautifully elusive, tip-of-the-tongue quality.

Its eight original tracks oscillate effervescent tones and grained electronics with a carefully realised, cybernetic nuance, locating a lush balance of haptic nudge and detached process that really gets under the skin in altered states. It’s active in the opening cut, Blended Textures’ swirl of arid chords and frothing acid, and smudged deeply into the glowing pores of Juum and the noumenal bleep space of Looum, and aching with a lovebot sentience in the Shinichi Atobe-esque title track, all on the A-side, whereas the the B-side subtly edges up the bass to tactile, insistent degrees with the air-stepping Ethereal and Activation beauties giving way to the arabesque vignette, Jazz Interlude.

Special mention for the remixes, with Salford's Perfume Advert playing to their Anxiety Support Group tendencies with nervously deferred but soothing results, and the ascendent Space Afrika duo hustling a rolling, heads-down Tribalist Dub version."

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released July 16, 2017

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