Electro Sun

Pure Blue

Trancelucent (Israel)

Crikey. You think you’ve heard big melodies, and then this. Clearly one to avoid if you’re Azax Syndrom’s mum, this is all about massive – and I mean massive – melodies. And I mean melodies. Title track Pure Blue opens out fast and pacey, and it’s not long before it starts taking you up on its ride. Very rollercoastery, in an almost ibizan way, with ups and downs with every peak feeling bigger than the last. Sundance is all about massive melodies, big sounds, clean sounds, in fact if we’re being honest, then “gorgeous sounds”. It’s able stuff, if a little over the top. The break is good, the drop is big, and while yes it’s very melody-centric, you simply cannot doubt the effectiveness and movement of this one. I’ve Got The Power is more electro, very fluid melodies in this and with filters aplenty. Another big tune with a very MDMA-friendly couple of drops n’ rushes. With Fucking Music, we’re talking bigger melodies: an almost epic, cinematic thing going on here. The groove shifts from the kinda neo-infected / sub6 shuffled feel to a more fluid vibe. Stretch is relentlessly pacey (145bpm but sounds faster) and sounds like some abhorrent nightmare involving a bag of pills, miscellaneous white powder, and a blowjob in the toilets, all at gatecrasher. Vanilla was on the recent Cyberdelica compilation; and while it didn’t stand out on there it almost does on here. And until the day when a guitar in a track finally clears the floor, stuff like this will probably do the business. In My Dream (Album Edit) is possibly the most gay piece of music I have heard all year. I don’t mean “gay” in a derogatory sense; and it pissed me off that people do this, mostly on message boards but back to the point: the melodies here are huge, the bass is unbelievably pumping, there’s stock house samples going “ahh yeah!!” and suchlike… all wrapped up at 145bpm. “Gay” is not derogatory here, it’s descriptive: this has more in common with Mardi gras amyl NRG house than with psytrance; push the BPMs up to 150 and see what I mean. On Momento, he’s (thankfully) toned it down some, letting the melodies develop more by themselves, but it still sounds like protoculture in a china shop. Finally Super Nova would probably be a pretty decent tune in its own right, but after whats come before it it just sounds rehashed. The CD gatefold cover thing has got a dirty great big “E” in the middle of it, with no less than seven other “E”s hidden in the artwork. This may suggest the state you need to be in before this CD starts to take on any significance. As uplifting/NRG/hard/trance this is pretty good, but please don’t try and tell us it’s psy. This is about as psychedelic as going to the shops.

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