Bliminal [Import]

Bliminal (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Interchill Can/Zoom
• ASIN: B000GIWTJG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,697 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars V/A - Bliminal, March 18, 2007

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J. Jury "Morpheusmusic.co.uk" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bliminal (Audio CD)

STYLE

Bliminal is primarily a collection of lush rhythmic chill - strong beats with a tribal insistence stride side by side with huge bass lines filling the consciousness with compelling grooves. There is sometimes an ethnic layer to the percussive mix, often plenty of synthetic aspects and digital effects woven into the loops - these hybrid beats cycle hypnotically, frequently introducing new elements, dropping others, evolving. Melodic detail is mostly in the form of brief revolving phrases, musical snatches and repeating lines all borne up on beds of lush digital construction. Indeed the colour on Bliminal is formed largely from a rich interplay of synthesised sound - there is less global sampling, fewer disembodied voices than many offerings in the genre - yet the variety and depth of sound is second to none. Bliminal blends aspects of electro, dub and psychedelic downtempo and delivers them in a form that most readily suggests the dance floor - tunes are not important here, rather rhythm, mood and the peripheral stimulation of intriguing, sparkling effects - music to be absorbed by osmosis, to drift steadily into the body. There are some gentler chordal sections - Moravec's Kudelsraart for example where bobbing tones float over a lucid bassline and measured beat, gradually softening the mood. From htere the album winds down toward a more ambient ending from Legion of Green Men and Ishq. Ishq's Nepalese Sun is a lazy fifteen minute slice of tranquillity that gradually wafts into beatless ambience, meandering through sunlit cloud and haze off into nothingness.

MOOD

Bliminal has a glowing twilight party luminance about it - gorgeous easy dance beats that suggest relaxed exotic nights. There is a mesmerising cybertribal trance atmosphere where repeating patterns permeate gradually, deliberately. The whole album feels bang up to date - riding the crest of current downtempo electronica, sparklingly clear and with a luxurious depth of sound. The wind down section at the end of the CD is very effective - the mood turning dreamy and soporific, gentle uplifting waves of serenity becoming ever more insubstantial and floatational - drawing the willing listener into contented reverie.

ARTWORK

With fractal reproduction endless tessellated spheres are interspersed with smaller spheres, in turn surrounded by smaller spheres .... Each sphere is a framework of hexagonal chambers, comfortably regular and soothing at a superficial glance, yet built with a depth and complexity that dizzies the eye when studied. The hue is purple, backlit and spotlit with bright light - six interlocking rings of light radiating flower-like from the centre leading the eye inward onto a small golden figure cross legged and crafted. The Interchill logo and titles complete the front cover and a tracklist fills the reverse. Inside there is a multi-layered repeating hexagonal field - again a challenge to the eye if you stop seeing the image as a whole and begin looking into its construction. Here is an extended tracklist with credits and website information.

OVERALL

Interchill's first release of the year is compiled by label founder Andrew Ross Collins. After the previous grit and urban monochrome of Sub Signals Vol.1. Bliminal flushes your speakers with colour once more. There are tracks from such well established acts as Gaudi, Eat Static and Greg Hunter, newer names like Moravec and a few aliases ... Evan Marc AKA Bluetech and Hibernation AKA Seb Taylor of Kaya Project and Angel Tears. Slackbaba, Liquid Strange and Legion of Green Men all maintaining the pace and mood. Promotional wording aptly highlights that this CD features "fluid downtempo, glitchy psy-breaks and emotive atmospheres ... an album of genre- defying grooves at the edges of the familiar". Give Bliminal a listen if you want something in the downtempo field that has driving rhythm, digital clarity and liquid electronics.

WHO WILL LIKE THIS ALBUM

Bliminal will appeal to chillout fans that want a complete journey within a single CD. Here are gutsy rhythmic dance tracks and some weightless ambient downtempo from some of the masters of the genre. A solid album of contemporary digital instrumentals.