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EDAK 002EP
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You'd spent our whole life in a dance of fear. And when you examine that, you realize that very often the thing you were frightened of wasn't nearly as frightening as the fear. Eira Haul returns to Edition Akasha to launch us into the ether by way of the Star Vertigo EP. Moving across a luminous range of otherworldly atmospheres, five tantalizing original cuts strike a spellbinding balance between body-shaking euphoria and meditative mind-healing. On the A-side, the garage shuffle and ultra-deep bass wobbles of "Ceramics" corrode beneath its hypnotic strings, while the fast-paced acid lines of "Anthracite" bubble and squeak over a choir of fallen angles. "Memory Rush" captures a similar tension as the engulfing dub chords at its center ebb and flow on-top a muscular four-to-the-floor pulse to illuminate the darkest of nights. The B-side is equally captivating: Like a gravitational collapse, the stellar melodies of "Incense Trip" break down into a void of razor-sharp percussion only to shine again in full effect thereafter. Lastly, Eira Haul sheds the black holes to ascend to catharsis with "Star Vertigo": "We wanted to try to understand what the fear is [...] and whether that energy is something we can transform -- is it our friend, is it our foe?" muses the voice on-top the tender bounce of the title-track's lush framework, leaving you with a lofty sense of hope transcending this exceptional sophomore EP.
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EDAK 001EP
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"Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead/Hang stars like seeds of light/In vain, though not since they were sown was bred/Anything more bright." Edition Akasha launches with Forest Beams by Eira Haul, presenting a sonic crosscut of the Berlin artist's captivating take on UK textures and tempos, fused by a visceral feel for bright melodic touches. As the rude bass stepper "Forest Beams" rubs shoulders with the jovial, off-kilter techno of "Oak", and the trance trip "Cosmic Body" takes flight towards the introspective halftimer "Kilim", euphoria and melancholy waltz in harmony atop soaring beats throughout this nod to Akasha Festival's Forest floor. At midpoint, Tornado Wallace compliments the tour de force with his "Lights Off Mix" of "Oak" -- a cheeky Balearic breakbeat rendition bringing summer firmly into focus.
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