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The Sun and The Neon Light
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It’s been a while since Frankfurt electo-movement vets Booka Shade put a full-length album comprised with a sufficient helping of mental microbes, shuddering the limbs and opening the thalamic doorways of their enthusiasts. Enter the romantically-titled The Sun & The Neon Light. Not since the manic-minimal house of their 2006 release, Movements have they been so tenacious in putting about thirty percent of what is evolved house/techno grand-standards. The '80s Herbie Hancock threaded “Control Me,” and obvious Planet Rock salute “Planetary” are prime examples. The better seventy percent is made up of courteous cerebral manifestations, sounds reverent and yet, macabre in sonic delivery. Opening track “Outskirts” is preset on house, but reshapes into a controlled wave filled with chambered strings and digital bops and bits -- much like a robot boiling in liquid funk…you get that, right? The following “Duke” is almost too minimal, giving off an essence of the implicit shit film score to Ghost of Mars, which John Carpenter composed -- not so hot. The duo show off their diversity chips with country/honky-tonk and blues (electronically compressed, of course) in “Dusty Boots” and, on another feat, delve into an R&B and neo-pop oriented conjunction with “Solo City.” ‘Tis the rapture for Booka Shade fans. (Physical Music)
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