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Rating: Music that leads to orbit, an interplanetary cruise among distant galaxies and lost or finally (re)discovered worlds. This is Paul and Phil Hartnoll, brothers/authors of the magnificent symbiotic symphony that is "Orbital 2 (Brown Album)," the second chapter of a journey undertaken two years earlier, exploring the remotest territories of a techno that manages to be brain and stomach, mental and physical, soul and body (and also image).
Ten tracks of life in faraway universes, explored by the two with an analog/digital instrumentation that was terribly ahead of its time, so much so that it becomes circular (where time becomes a loop, as the tangle of voices informs us in "Time Becomes"). Between the beginning and the end(?), the various facets of a sound at times shaped on breakbeat ("Planet Of The Shapes" or a devastating "Impact"), on other occasions more oriented towards a steady bass drum and MDMA-driven fervor (the two parts of "Lush 3", a double that is already three, already ahead, already beyond playback time...). Come on, "Walk Now...", carried by synth-basses that bring down walls (of sound?) only to lose ourselves in the wind of "Halcyon And On And On", with the eternally fragmented and doubled voice/sample in a single great sigh. Magic. Input. Translation. Tangerine Dream in the dancefloor era, rigorously timeless for an album so consciously immersed in classicism.
Where time becomes a loop, the rest is silence.
Rating: 4.5 (+ or -).
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