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IN STOCK
01. FLUXION - Lark
02. FLUXION - Hiatus
03. FLUXION - Lapses
04. FLUXION - Largo
05. FLUXION - Atlos
06. FLUXION - Cyclops Machine
07. FLUXION - Fovea Centralis
08. FLUXION - Pendoulous
09. FLUXION - Influx
10. FLUXION - Opaque
ARTIST
TITLE
Vibrant Forms
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TYPE 117CD TYPE 117CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/12/2013

Kostas Soublis' productions under the Fluxion moniker helped define legendary Berlin imprint Chain Reaction, and with 1999's Vibrant Forms, the Greek producer released a milestone in the dub techno genre. Hazy and distant, there was still more than enough dancefloor push to propel Soublis into the (very short) list of genre legends, and make Vibrant Forms one of the very rare techno albums that works from beginning to end. Out of press for far too long, this new edition of Vibrant Forms has been remastered and will finally see the entire album released on vinyl for the first time. The most shocking thing hearing it almost 15 years after its original release, however, is how little it has dated. Soublis wisely avoided any cultural tropes, and the productions still sound fresh and deceptively alien. Through washes and waves of reverb and the faint thud of a kick drum, the all-analog productions contain a raw quality that is all too rare these days. Just head to the album's elegiac closing number "Opaque." Upbeat and propulsive, the track still maintains a deceptive calm, buoyed by swirling synthesizer washes and sizzling, tape-saturated percussion. This is the way dub techno should sound -- don't accept any imitations, Vibrant Forms is the real thing. Completely remastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy.