Washes of analogue atmospherics rinse into synthesizer spheres. Cascading from the heavens into the fathoms of the deep, VC-118A delivers four pieces of imaginative and soulful electronics.
The Tabernacle train rolls on. Next stop, The Netherlands. VC-118A (aka Samuel Van Dijk) has released on imprints such as TRUST and Lunar Disko. The producer, and designer, takes a warming approach to electro, dipping coldness into channels of deeper autumnal sounds. Enter Flight Control.
“Terminal Code” gets the particles accelerating. Snapping beats are entertained by isolating bass and frigid mechanical pulses. It is only around the two minute mark that Van Dijk allows development, broad chords inserted over the brittle tweaks for a distanced work. That aural division is maintained for “Flight Control.” Laconic rhythm sections flex and recede as a delicate melody is built on these arching struts. The suitably titled “Depressurization” is a dense and complex piece of electro. Slow bubbles are released before patented machine slices. Samples are employed in a track of shifting sounds and dub memories. The sub-aquatic motif is maintained for the finale, “Blue World Below.” Burbling notes are sunk into a sea of circuitry, the fiery burst of a snare tethering the track to the shore.
Van Dijk takes a clinical formula and applies ambient abstraction to the machinery. Washes of analogue atmospherics rinse into synthesizer spheres. Cascading from the heavens into the fathoms of the deep, VC-118A delivers four pieces of imaginative and soulful electronics.
Flight Control is available on Tabernacle.
