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"Vicent Fibla started the spa.RK label in Barcelona, during 2001. Lent : 'lent' means literally 'slow' in Catalan, and should not be associated with fasting or any kind of religious observance. Lent finds Vicent in composed and fully assured form, employing trademark electronic elements, yet finding enough distinction to set it above and beyond the vast conveyor belt of the contemporary electronic scene. There's an unhurried, slow motion grace at the heart of this release, and it shows considerable amounts of heart and feeling at every turn. 'Krud' immediately settles into a sedate, majestic progression -- booming bass and chords like ointment. 'Making the Most of It' carries the feeling of impending time, building up from washes of sound and layer, emerging poised and smooth from a relatively crunched up beginning. 'La Baie des Anges' adopts a more architectural approach, perhaps more Autechre than Gaudi, but still, anyone who's visited the Sonar festival in Vicent's home town should understand the thrust and the context of this graceful piece. 'Boringly Repetitive' takes the slanderous, almost journalistic term and fires it right back at the critics. Bumping along at an increased tempo, there's a defiant, joyous electronic hook which in the right hands could rock any party, worth the name. 'Antaix' brings us back to earth, crumpled but still nicely crisped around the edges, while 'Inside' enlists the assistance of DJ 2D2 on turntables, support DJ on the latest Prefuse 73 tour. Summing up, we find the concluding track 'An Incredible Shared Moment' and that could stand as fitting comment on the inclusive, sunblessed, shimmering web of sound that is Lent."
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"Sometimes, while listening to electronic music, one experiences a feeling of solitude and coldness. The sound of machines need the human soul's energy and warmth for fuel. Even if Fibla's sound is close to the British or German electro scenes (e.g. Chain Reaction, Blue Spirit, Force Tracks or Raum Musik), there is something more, some detail that indicates that this guy is from a place where the sun never fails to shine and the subtle breezing of the sea is a musical background. A first strike for a new electro wizard simply called Fibla. This is Spain's electro at its best: subtle rhythmic patterns, filled with a taste for smooth arrhythmic methodicity, lunar sounds and melodies, treated in such a way that it directly reaches your cortex right in the place where it longs for pleasure, coziness and 'feeling good'. With a reminiscent and obvious taste for the late 70's, early 80's electro pop, Fibla built a world were pain is nonsense, and hectic is out of the usual vocabulary. This doesn't mean that the album is for the chill-out addicted. Far from these clichés, you will find here the sunny side of electronic music, a shared introspective moment without any guilt, while staring into somebody else's secret garden. Mix these elements with a solid sound deeply belonging to the currently diversified electronic scene, you will once and for all agree that there is no future without looking back."
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