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With its saturated sounds, clipped beats, and spacey pads, Walk Again opens a portal to a place full of mystery and promise. Across 11 tracks, John Lord Fonda confirms that he is not only capable of writing techno bombs like "We Can't Breathe" and "Race For Nothing", but also breakbeat-tinged gems like "Little Jazz". The soaring melodies of "Antarctica" and "Crème" bring a dreamlike intensity to the project, while new-wave wannabee "Together Again" (featuring vocals by Gabriel Afathi of The George Kaplan Conspiracy) enlarges the musical horizon, planting its flag as an evolved piece of techno not afraid to mix genres. Calmer moments such as "Walk Again" and "A Descent Melody" continue our journey into the richest of techno landscapes, where intriguing, fascinating tracks like "They Will Fight For You" and "Les Dunes d'Altaïr" bring a rounded mysticism to the project. Dazzling and cold, brutal and soft, the album marries a fluid, coherent mix of cerebral techno and poetic melodies, both calm and calming. Walk Again, dance again, live again.
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CTZ 045EP
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Before the explosion of the Poney EP (2001) (including the hit "La Rock 01"), Vitalic had a previous artistic life under the alias of Dima. Today, Pascal Arbez-Nicolas is reactivating the Dima on his own label, Citizen Records. The Dima project originally blossomed in the thick of the 1990s rave scene in France; for the four tracks on Sounds Of Life, Dima employs the thick textures of Modal 008 and Arturia MatrixBrute synths. Using these modern machines gives the tracks a contemporary sound, while the structures of the compositions take us back twenty years.
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