Percussion Bullet - Future Accommodation

...This is their first release and it is a well balanced record.It starts with a really nice track to warm up and builds up towards some straight dance floor tunes.

Very homogenic,all tracks are thought fully placed in order.

Layered percussion and atmospheric ambiance makes this record very moody,the kind of a record that it will be heard in many proggy dance floors on this summer.

Cydelix gives a helping hand on track 8 (my favorite track by the way) , while Side Liner has done a remix for "walk away" which finishes the album in a chill mood.If you are looking for ground breaking sounds this isn't the kind of thing for, but if you enjoy progressive "clubby" style then this might be the thing for you..."

headbot · July 11, 2006

Review from Etch

writer of 3D World, InTheMix, Resident Advisor, FasterLouder and Vibewire.

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Chris Bravos and Vasilis Filios are Percussion Bullet, a new duo whose music has been eagerly snapped up by Athens-based label Unicorn Music. Unicorn sprang into life at the start of 2003, riding the seemingly endless wave of Greece’s love for progressive/psy-trance. Greek labels Acid Dance (Xenomorph!) and Candyflip have consistently put out some amazing psychedelic music over the years and Unicorn, the newest of the bunch, has worked alongside these labels to boost the countries musical profile. Percussion Bullet’s Future Accommodation is the first of Unicorn’s new In Progress series designed to showcase some of the world’s finest, though lesser known, progressive producers.

It’s a sad fact that most prog pumped out these days is beginning to sound tired and passé. The good stuff is frustratingly thin on the ground. In fact bandying about the word prog is almost guaranteed to result in chinstrokers coming to verbal fisticuffs and is actually quite regressive. Whatever manner of beast prog actually is, its myriad splinter-genres have unarguably been thrashed to within an inch of their musical lives. Future Accommodation is unfortunately no progressive panacea, but it does standout as a very solid debut.

Saturated with spacey atmospherics and teeming with warm textures, Future Accommodation glides through dreamy soundscapes where the imagination frolics and runs free. There is a distinct clubby edge to most of the tracks, though sprinkled throughout are moments of ambient angelic beauty where tendrils of synth twirl over crystalline washes and ticklish percussion. Each track has been structured with algebraic precision and reveals new sounds with each listen.

Transparent Thought opens the album up, slowly building into a bubbling little gurgler. Its aquatic sonic ripples and Bedrock-styled production slowly lead into the mesmerising clapping of Wool Gather’s tribal beats. After this musical juju, Music is Our Future sulks along for seven long minutes before surrendering to the whirlpool of sine and twang found in Project.

The best of the bunch are Show Me Love and The Dusk. The breakdown of The Dusk features a haunting vox reverb that would destroy any dancefloor lucky enough to experience it. Show Me Love on the other hand is an introspective brooder that features subtle and tastefully placed vocal stabs layered over foggy sweeps and warm pads. Two truly mesmerising songs.

Skipping ahead finds Cydelix lending his psychedelic sound to Maxipulate. Unfortunately his usual upfront style has been lost along the way and Maxipulate ends up sounding a touch out of place. Next in line is Revulsion (Alegro Mix) that takes awhile to get going, but when it does, hang on! Crisp and emotive, it’s a perfect lead into the remix effort from Unicorn head-honcho Nick Miamis. His remix of Walk Away under his chill out Side Liner alter ego is best described as juiced up left-field Thievery Corporation.

Give Percussion Bullet a shot, you won’t be disappointed.

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