Label: 12th Isle – ISLE009
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP
Country: UK
Released: 17 Jun 2020
Genre: Electronic, Stage & Screen
Style: Abstract, Techno, Field Recording, Ambient
Glasgow’s 12th Isle crew come good with a debut 12” EP from French producer Denis Morin under his Vague Imaginaires guise, channeling the spirit of the ocean and the environment into a serene, dub-dipped, out-of-body experience. A-side sets off with chirping chip-tune melodies washed up in ocean swell that makes for a rich and unexpected textual clash , whilst A2 dives deeper into a purple-hued trip of floating atmospherics. Flipside takes a hit of influence from later dayz Chain Reaction outings, racy, delirium-inducing bass lines in perpetuity – think the bucolic bliss of Halluncinator’s ‘Kilimanjaro’ mixed with the car-chase trance of Monolake’s ‘Magenta’, yet all oddly Balearic and light on its feet. Sound track to the summer that never was / is to be?! Huge 12” even for this lot’s standards.. (Mint / New)
Tracklist
A1 Mais Qu’est-ce Que 8:41
A2 Space Birthday 6:06
B1 La Plage Sous les Arbres 6:20
B2 Deep In Blue 10:29