Audio Noir Releases Second Album - Artificial Star Out August 31stHalfway through the second decade of the 21st century, you have to hesitate some before reaching for artistic descriptions like “mysterious” or “enigmatic”. Atypical is the new typical; it’s all been said; it’s all been done before, right!? The clandestinely minded Australian won’t be ‘exploding onto any scenes’. He’s no “overnight sensation”, nor could his career rise (thus far anyway) be classified as “swift” or “meteoric”. He doesn’t DJ either (“yet” he underscores) and he may well be too ‘fresh of age’ to have even heard one of his own tracks played live in club. Played live they’ve been, though, with ever-increasing frequency over the last 18 months and to no small measure of DJ acclaim. Paul Oakenfold, Solarstone, John 00 Fleming, Airwave, M.I.K.E Push and Gai Barone are just some of the spinners who’ve been dialling in, with ever more regularity to his own unique, mood-fuelled electronic music hybridization. That sound has seen his releases pollinate across a good few of the more forward thinking label stables: J00F, Green Martian, Perfecto Black and Suffused being but a cross-section. As with his first album (the 2014-released ‘Almost Famous’) though, it’s with the legendary Bonzai Progressive imprint that he’ll be releasing his sophomore long-player later this month. The more hardboiled end of Prog House is explored through the moody mode of openers ‘The Dark Place’ & ‘From London To Moscow’, and further in with ‘Cloud Catcher’. ‘Travel Tube’ supplies a cool, prog-breaks tangent, while ‘Jazz Noir’ programmes likewise, but entertains more Massive Attack-like elements and Moog-ish, Doors-ian riffs. On tracks like the empyrean ‘El Oceano Y La Luna’ and the deep-space ether of ‘Drk Mttr’, Audio Noir charts the cooler, more refined margins of trance. Interspersed between are the beat-free chill & dubby ‘Leftism’-style LFO of ‘A Deeper Future’ and ‘Paper Planes’, which is every bit as nonchalant in nature. Audio Noir - ‘Artificial Star’ Tracklist: 01: The Dark Place facebook.com/audionoirofficial
August 24, 2015 8:26am ET by Stark Profiles PR
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