V/A Rhythmic Images (Unicorn Music/UMCD009)

This progressive trance sounds good and interesting. However, I'm more looking forward to the Purple energy 2 with Goasia and Omegahertz. Hope to see more new/old school goa releases soon. Both Radical Distortion's releases are great

headbot · July 11, 2006

Review from Etch

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

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Rhythmic Images is the second release in the new In Progress series from Athens-based Unicorn Music. This ten track album is brimming with intricate progressive numbers from three of the scenes hottest talents - Grecian producers par excellence Eniak, Aviron and Sunhize. You can be sure that if Plato was still around he’d be staging killer parties at the Parthenon with these three as headliners!

New talent Eniak (George Belesis) is the clear star of the album. No relation to the vacuum-powered old school computer, Eniak is a producer that loves ultra bottom-heavy bass and intricate programming. Subtle timbral variety is the aim of the game for this innovative producer and psy-lovers will lap up his loud and bold sound.

The first of his tunes is Disturbed. It starts slowly, heavy on harmonics and ingenious subtle resonance filters that complement a kicking bass and percussion duel to the death. Pure high-quality dance music. Solidify is equally concerned with unyielding bass. Featuring the phattest of phatt b-lines that drops in around the five minute mark, this track will drive psy-lovers mad with glee. The last of his productions to feature is the frosty Liquid Ice. This tune slowly builds into a monster of crystal-tipped ambient washes that float around booming bass and twinkling sine-like melodies.

Equally impressive are the productions of Nick Petris aka Aviron. With numerous trance releases on the respected Discobole imprint, Aviron’s latest work is a continuation of his unusual sonic experiments. Each Aviron track included on Rhythmic Images goes beyond a simple interplay of bass, percussion and synth work. Instead, his tracks incorporate complex layers of sound that battle to the death for aural supremacy.

The first of these is Nostoc. Modelled on a day in the life of an aquatic bacteria that loves kicking back on the bottom of freshwater lakes, this cyanobacterial fusion piece is as odd as it sounds. Freaky Dreams is equally strange, a slice of pure twisted psychedelia that is as dark as it is unsettling. Aviron wisely changes tack with Strange People, a tune full of trippy vocal snips that glide over rich keys and sweeping synths packing enough reverb to kill an elephant.

Leading the final charge are Sunhize (Mike Petropoulos and John Dimitropoulos.) The most experienced of the bunch, their lifelong passion for goa still guides their productions, though the latest pieces to emerge from their talented fingers have been slowly moving toward a slightly groovier prog style. Tracks like Firestorm duck and weave through realms of pure consciousness while the slow burner Darkplay broods along for seven intense minutes. Their last piece, Seduzione, consists of punchy drums and a tight snare lead that floats around a warbling psychedelic synth whirlpool.

Entrancing stuff - happy listening!

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