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Artist:	CONFORCE
Title:	Dystopian Elements EP
Label:	DELSIN (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	DSR 089EP

Conforce presents the Dystopian Elements EP. "Luminous" is a tantalizing deep house number whose tempo looks to the future. "Desolate Ground" is sparse and spare, yes, but warm and enveloping. "Lonely Run" again mines a cerebral vein, but one with a muted acid bassline and a heightened sense of edginess. "Vacuum" is the most dancefloor, with tight hi-hat rotations and a muffled, muted bassline. Overall, it's subtle, expansive and dub-wise stuff that oozes with genuine class and real restraint.

Artist:	CONFORCE
Title:	Escapism
Label:	DELSIN (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DSR 090CD

Holland's deep electronic specialist Conforce releases his second full-length. Still riding high on the praise from his last EP, Dystopian Elements, Boris Bunnik has crafted another album of deep digital and authentic analog bliss. As well as on Delsin, it's appropriately classy labels like Clone and Rush Hour which have released Conforce's work in the past -- the results of which have helped mark out the man behind them as one of the day's most considered sonic craftsmen. All but one of the album tracks is new and exclusive, with "Lonely Run" the only one heard thus far, given its inclusion on the aforementioned EP. It was a track which perfectly surmised the man's musical mission -- to combine elements of futurism with real hardware, decent software and to simply go wherever it takes him, be that a landscape doused in dub, formed from a firmer techno template or built on a house groove. As such, the aptly-entitled album is a wholly immersive listen from start to finish. Operating in its own deep and subliminal world of rhythm, it goes from lateral and dubby to more upright and kicking, touching on ambient moments and the odd classist moment along the way. Rather than ten shades of the same color, Escapism investigates a number of different moods and tempos. Opener "Revolt DX," for example, suggests a lively pace, despite being drenched in echo and reverb. "Elude," meanwhile, is a more roughshod roller torn apart by blistering synths, crisp percussion and prying claps. "Shadows Of The Invisible" is a mysterious journey into the tense, unknown world of deep space, while "Aquinas Control" floats in a murky, churning and dark underwater abyss... like the album overall, it's hugely evocative stuff that bares little resemblance to the populist motifs of Chicago-this or Detroit-that. From start to finish, Escapism grabs your attention without being rushed, hurried or over-complicated. It's the sort of album which works on both headphones up-close, but also on a dancefloor at a distance, thanks to its devilish detail but palpable presence. Unsurprisingly, one of today's most reliable producers has turned in one of the year's finest albums.

Artist:	CONFORCE
Title:	Escapism
Label:	DELSIN (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	DSR 090LP

2LP version. Holland's deep electronic specialist Conforce releases his second full-length. Still riding high on the praise from his last EP, Dystopian Elements, Boris Bunnik has crafted another album of deep digital and authentic analog bliss. As well as on Delsin, it's appropriately classy labels like Clone and Rush Hour which have released Conforce's work in the past -- the results of which have helped mark out the man behind them as one of the day's most considered sonic craftsmen. All but one of the album tracks is new and exclusive, with "Lonely Run" the only one heard thus far, given its inclusion on the aforementioned EP. It was a track which perfectly surmised the man's musical mission -- to combine elements of futurism with real hardware, decent software and to simply go wherever it takes him, be that a landscape doused in dub, formed from a firmer techno template or built on a house groove. As such, the aptly-entitled album is a wholly immersive listen from start to finish. Operating in its own deep and subliminal world of rhythm, it goes from lateral and dubby to more upright and kicking, touching on ambient moments and the odd classist moment along the way. Rather than ten shades of the same color, Escapism investigates a number of different moods and tempos. Opener "Revolt DX," for example, suggests a lively pace, despite being drenched in echo and reverb. "Elude," meanwhile, is a more roughshod roller torn apart by blistering synths, crisp percussion and prying claps. "Shadows Of The Invisible" is a mysterious journey into the tense, unknown world of deep space, while "Aquinas Control" floats in a murky, churning and dark underwater abyss... like the album overall, it's hugely evocative stuff that bares little resemblance to the populist motifs of Chicago-this or Detroit-that. From start to finish, Escapism grabs your attention without being rushed, hurried or over-complicated. It's the sort of album which works on both headphones up-close, but also on a dancefloor at a distance, thanks to its devilish detail but palpable presence. Unsurprisingly, one of today's most reliable producers has turned in one of the year's finest albums.

Artist:	CONFORCE
Title:	Machine Conspiracy
Label:	MEANWHILE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MEAN 020CD

Meanwhile's second-ever album release presents the work of Netherlands-based Conforce. Opening with an insolent, precise, tightly-wound bass and hats configuration, there's immediate affinity with Carl Craig's myriad shades of impeccable funk. A kinship is established between windy cities, gloom, lakeside living -- a central, if slightly murked connection. A primordial roving bass line wades through the cooled-out density of "Sonar Conversation," a body-speed, electro-funked tussle follows on "Robotic Arm Wrestle": poised, oiled and housed with the swanked machine operative's last moments. "Love Hate" already slayed on 12" and improves on every listen. "First Impression" typifies this album's marriage of fractured emotion with a heart of soulful belief -- the pulsing but still-functional human wreckage and embers that remain after the machines have moved on, if you like. "Subtraction" doffs its cap to Manchester's own emergent noughties sound: fat, sub-bassed, minimally-conjured, slightly-squeezed, acid-hi-tech-business. Superior stuff that wears it well on a drive at dawn through Babylon. "Intimidation" certainly lives up to its title, a sullen sense of clammy fear and whispered malevolence emanates, while the tune builds up a significant dancefloor momentum, deadly funky even within its coldly insistent patterns. "Machine Conspiracy" warms us back to life with a thrumming Basic Channel surge and a rimshot to die for -- one of those stripped dub destroyers you can return to in any mood for guidance. "Rare Education" jams on it like Magic Juan lording it at a mint bar hosted by Lil Louis -- sheer classic vibes. "Stop Hold" ushers us into humid technological tropics where a brief history of the after-future is busy melting down all connections. Machine Conspiracy is a gripping album.

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