Raw and unrelenting, DynArec does Solar One proud with four cuts of cruel and isolated Electro. An artist, easily assumed lost, has been reclaimed.
DynArec (aka Chris Kalera) is a curious figure in Electro. The Frenchman had some five years of intense productivity with releases on labels like Delsin, Nature and Puzzlebox as well as finding time to establish his own Vaporwave imprint. But since 2008 he has been quiet, almost half a decade of analogue silence bar some MP3s floating out from Vaporwave. But that hiatus is now being broken. DynArec is returning to vinyl to introduce a new series on Solar One Music: Electronische Werke Part 1.
A thick, sludgy 4/4 introduces “All Automatic.” Sniped beats push through this heavy bass barrier before samples rise and rhythm arrangements pulsate. Melodies bulge and recede for a clinical and hardy opener. Beats are quick and weighty for “Double Postpone.” Sheets of coarse distortion dissect the thump and snare as arpeggios race up inclined scales. Fast and relentless from the French artist. The title track has a particularly cold aspect. Disconnected chords are met with underhanded glitch and frostbitten beats. Bitter and machine-centric sounds to open the B-Side. “Water Meadow” leads out DynArec’s first record in over five years. Shimmering sounds are a backdrop for a rack of n which to peg squirming chords. Those ice-like snares are again present, cutting through rumbling reverberations and bending bars.
Kalera has picked up where he left off in 2008, his style is as surgically sharp as ever. Raw and unrelenting, DynArec does Solar One proud with four cuts of cruel and isolated Electro. An artist, easily assumed lost, has been reclaimed.
Exomove is available on Solar One Music.
