Digital Dawn
A 4 track rave ep (20m 25s) — released March 31st 2023 on Cold Blow Records
"The light is buried under chains and noises
in the impudent challenge of rootless science.
And crowds stagger sleeplessly through the boroughs
as if they had just escaped a shipwreck of blood."
Halvtrak returns to Cold Blow with techno-romantic escapism, riding Chi House-leaning rhythms and intergalactic Techno sculptures. If his previous "Images By Night" dealt with things nocturnal, Digital Dawn opens the curtains to a blue-eyed retrofuturism, bursting with colour and spark.
The A-side shows Halvtrak at his most upbeat vibe to date. X-Pressed and Rhythm Overture teleport us on a nostalgia trip to the acid, rave and breakbeat era, re-imagined by an artist too young at the time but who parsed the ethos from the artefacts of its heyday.
The B-side throws a deeper counterbalance to the release. Born out of studies in the Chicago house tradition, Phase Distorshun checks into a turning point in time where disco influence was long abandoned and sights set into the unknown deep space.
The closing number, Doubt, does not relent on the 4-to-the-floor but turns the gaze inward, exploring our inner vulnerabilities while musically standing on the shoulders of New York-style house and the early UK-produced Detroit Techno a la B12, Stasis and the like.
“Really nice!” - Space Dimension Controller
“Top notch left eld shu y teshno biznis” - Oper8 Sub FM
“such a lovely listen. thanks for this excellent release!” - Volvox
“Wow, what an EP. Love this. Thx” - James Zabiela
“OOOOOF feeling these, especially rhythm overture!” - James Morley SWU FM
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