https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/polarity-24bit
!!!this is not the mixed version by Focal!!!This is the complete version.
Label & car. number: Ultimae Records – inre089
DOR & country: 31/05/2017 - France
Formats: 2 x CD & digital 28 tracks
Styles: Ambient/Downtempo/Dub Techno
Playlist & approximate time:
00:00:00. Aes Dana : Inverted Spring
00:06:00. Merovee : They Own The Night
00:11:22. Valanx : Dance Of Death
00:17:24. Claudio Prc : Hyacinth
00:22:16. Mod21 : Hunting The Black Eagle
00:28:53. Musicians With Guns : La Guerre De Tous Contre Tous
00:34:43. Ennony : Stratospheric Layers
00:40:43. Resoe : Pressure Elements
00:49:07. Variant : Distant Shadows
01:02:00. Kinosura : Spin
01:09:15. Area : Malefactor
01:15:14. Deadbeat : Entonación Chilena (Atacama Mix)
01:21:24. Beat Pharmacy : Cape May
Credits:
Artwork by Raphaël Kuntz
Design & mixed by Focal (Arnaud Galoppe)
Mastered by Vladislav Isaev
Text by Nick Sumbles
Notes:
From the passionate lands of France, Arnaud Galoppe, known as Focal and Kinosura, has hand-mixed an emotional labyrinth of dark techno and melancholy ambience in Ultimae’s latest compilation.
Polarity is a double-sided conglomerate of electronic expressions from all over the world, spanning across atmospheric soundworlds of intimate drone and deep, industrial progressions.
This collection of heartwarming soundscapes and foot-stomping house beats is smoother than butter, a series of 26 top-notch tracks that paint an interesting, auditory adventure.
Although the album has a minimalistic approach, it offers a surprisingly detailed production. Each track is layered with expert craftsmanship and hypnotic melodies laced against diverse, psychedelic noise echoing in the distance.
Polarity is certainly an experience worth traversing, and we are proud to host it as an excellent addition to any electronica connoisseur's sound-library.
The Polarity artwork was imagined by plasticians Suzy Lelièvre and Raphaël Kuntz.
From a sphere, they conceived a parametric deformation protocol for a decomposition in several stages. While Suzy imagines shapes and the potential modifications to impact, Raphaël works on the incarnation process to extract a mineral matter look, something geological, almost chemical.
As they materialise, with slow lighting work, shapes undergo random offsets, revealing the tension between a near scientific protocol and its subjective interpretation. Beyond the infinite production of singular shapes, the goal of both artists, especially for this project, is to invent new processes that invite a reconsideration of our attitude to shapes.
In the same way, from Ambient to Techno, through a game of modulation of pads, rhythms and frequencies, Polarity offers a variety of musical spectra flowing into one another, a melodic exploration of the twists and turns which link both universes.
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