A landmark palette of electronic riffs, flexible sound waves and pulsating drift-scapes that are worth to enjoy for those who are nostalgic of the 70s Berlin school and for listeners of late developments in downtempo music with a easy-listening soundtrack feeling (Parallel Worlds, Dave Bessel) or with a dynamic range of concise and abstract minimal impulses (Bluetech).
Ian Boddy practices large-scale ambient electronic music at the crossing point of oscillating deep listening soundscapes and adventurous progressive synthworks. Electronic wizard internationally known for his own productions and his DiN laboratory Ian Boddy is an avid defender of analogue arpeggios, ring modulators, and retro-ish trance-like atmospheric music (in the kosmische space-music direction) but also investigates on new gears advanced technological music engineering. His dedicated passion for electronic and new music embraces a diversity of styles, also admitting an interest for driving techno beats next to old-school analogue sounds. Let’s have a closer listen on two of the last DiN efforts:
Parallel Worlds & Dave Bessell :: Dystopia
Dave Bessel and Bakis Sirros (aka Parallel Worlds) are two regular sound producers to be signed by DiN. To the menu functional and retro space ambient music largely built on percolating arpeggios and sci-fi aerial atmospheres with threatening mood, enveloping melodious patterns, dense layers, piano tones and sometimes new-age slippery tendencies. Fans of ambient techno with a cinematic feel and retro-ish 80s/90s electro grooves might find serious interest here.
Bluetech :: Liquid Geometries
A downtempo artist with a solid background in sound production, Bluetech offers his first release for DiN. Liquid Geometries presents a nice, vibrant, precise and eloquent collection of hypnotically structured minimal soundscapes. An enlightening sonic journey built on catchy chill-out ingredients which almost advocates a sort of tranced-out reflective quietness—a music vehicle to lucid dreams. No doubt this one will be appreciated by listeners in search of new challenging lines in electro-kinetic music. Between Manuel Gottsching’s E2-E4, post-club ambient house and lounge minimalism representatives (Pete Namlook, Testu Inoue et al.)
In closing, these two albums present a landmark palette of electronic riffs, flexible sound waves and pulsating drift-scapes that are worth to enjoy for those who are nostalgic of the 70s Berlin school and for listeners of late developments in downtempo music with a easy-listening soundtrack feeling (Parallel Worlds, Dave Bessel) or with a dynamic range of concise and abstract minimal impulses (Bluetech).
