electronic / dub / reggae

Shapes and Shadows is an album by the electronic music artist known by the nom de plume Panda Dub, released on March 1. Forty eight minutes long, the album has ten tracks: Howl, Lost Temple, Enigma, Shankara, Kalahari, J'finirai seul dans un coquillage, Bad Weather, Shapes & Shadows, Drizzle and Labyrinthe. Shapes and Shadows depart from an interesting mixture of several different genres of electronic music, like dubstep, progressive dubstep and electro reggae, amongst others. The result is not only interesting, but exceedingly intriguing, and very pleasant to the ears. With an exceptional amount of fearless creativity, the general grooves of the music are colorful and pretty much alive, and you are introduced with such a strong majesty within the universe of the music, that you almost feel you are part of it. 

The overall rhythms of the songs are magnificent displays of omniscience, with powerful outlines of strength and sobriety. The general imposition of melodies is greatly intensified by a strong sense of rhythmic proficiency, intrinsic to the conscious rules of the harmonies. Although the album is extremely influenced by reggae, the eccentricity here works profoundly well. This reggae infused electronic music record certainly reveals an exponentially monumental and sensationally peculiar sense of artistry, especially given the fact that the final result is simply beyond astounding.     

Shapes and Shadows is a majestic album. With an audacious, expansive and daring musical proposal, the artist scored just right a formidable level of experimental musical versatility, without the fault of committing any exaggerations.  

I became surprised even with myself, taking into consideration how much I have liked this album. With the little twists of psychedelic groves, the abundant Jamaican sounds root of its unpredictable notes and the electronic wave of a vivacious dubstep, Shapes and Shadows is a marvelous record, extremely innovative, unique and original. Highly recommendable not only to dubstep enthusiasts, but for fans of electronic music in general, as well as experimental music, this album transcends boundaries, and defines new patterns for the expected scale of creativity usually found in the underground scene. Undoubtedly, Shapes and Shadows is a virtuous and highly colossal piece of musical revelation.     


Wagner

electronic / downtempo / psychedelic / dub / idm

Awakening World Remixes is an album produced in a partnership between artists Sixis and Expedizion, featuring guest musicians. A brilliant work of art that engenders a colorful mosaic of panels, meticulously unraveling the genres of electronic, bass music, intelligent dance music, glitch, psychedelic electro, psydub and downtempo, Awakening World Remixes resulted in a surprisingly good, multifaceted and multilayered album, with catchy rhythms, exceedingly defined but purely eccentric harmonies, and multi-centered exploration of a refined art sound, all perfectly aligned in a very dystopian scenario of overwhelming beauty, defining an unusual sonorous expedition of possibilities that will leave you absolutely surprised in the end.

With no fear of getting experimental, and resonating the ingenious art of ever reasoning emotions into the core of the soundscape, all the musicians working on the record seems adjusted as one, in a very coherent panel, where all of them bargain their own individual styles and peculiarities, to make their differences work together as one, where their singularities converge to produce a monumental masterpiece, that make rainbows shine over their lucid infusing sincerity of rain colors, exploding into a nothingness overexposed at the feet of our own impressions. A little too short, though, having only six tracks, and less than forty minutes long, nonetheless Awakening World Remixes is an exceedingly good, awesome, astounding and reverberating piece of work, that overwhelmed my feelings in each and every second of it. Never before so many different styles of electronic music were infused so greatly, so harmonically and so uniformly well together, producing a veil of unbelievable and mesmerizing sonorous beauty. Never being too much intricate, complex or difficult to decipher, Awakening World remixes is a great joint of different forces, united to make a rewarding record, that certainly has the potential to be regarded as a milestone on the genre. 

Although essentially underlying an atmosphere prepared to please the underground, it could achieve some popularity outside it. Perfectly managing the balance between an experimental layer of sonorous hermeticism, but technically diffusing at least the core elements that approaches a more sophisti-pop based sphere of influence, Awakening World Remixes is an album full of colors, contrasts, styles, soundscapes and fragments, all perfectly aligned together to work in such a united, cohesive and convicted feature, that it will be impossible not to please the enthusiasts of the genre. With a wide exploration of sonorous elements, encircling and elevating the patterns of rhythmical and allegorical configurations, this album has what it takes to be considered the finest of the category, having so many remarkable devices, that it is impossible not giving to this record the recognition it deserves. It is so remarkably amazing, that you certainly will never forget what you’ve heard. Awakening World Remixes is a marvelous sonorous experience, highly recommended for every enthusiasts of electronic music with a more experimental avant-garde approach. Setting no limits nor boundaries to their artistic atmosphere, the artists in question here certainly deserve to be in the top of the category, since they really do more than just music, but artistic sonorous dreamscapes, filled with colors, in a cosmological layout of underground delusional infinity.       

​Wagner