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Bliss Inc. - Hacking The Planet EP (early 90s Progressive House/Breakbeat)
Big release here for fans of early Progressive House, mid-tempo trancey-techno, and breakbeat.
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| There is not much information to be found online about Bliss Inc., whose Hacking the Planet EP comes out on Radiant Love this summer. Beyond the fact they�re named Alexander and hail from Saint Petersburg, the project is cryptic � somehow this is fitting for a set of songs that could�ve fallen out of an obscure 1994 catalogue. This is the year of Robert Leiner�s Visions of the Past, Opus III�s Guru Mother, and Paul Oakenfold�s BBC-1 Essential Mix: an aesthetic region in which tech and new age spirituality braid together, a time before this synthesis reached Silicon Valley; while it still lingered in the rave, incredibly sincere, everything sounded kind of wet, and the efficiency of spirit was means to no end but a state of bliss. What keeps Hacking the Planet from falling into pure nostalgia is its tuning � the palette of 1994 has been lifted and run through a delicate sensibility. The title track is a piece of buoyant, airy trance, with orbiting filters and a set of loopy, very vocal synths. It bumps along at 130 BPM, but feels slower because of the ease and clarity with which the track progresses. �Infinite� has got the aquatic motifs and soft, panning cymbals of a set-opener, or a comedown jam. The break that swings in after a minute-thirty feels less like a punctuation than another stream of sonics joining the flow. Picking up the pace a little, �Transitions� opens with a whir that could issue from a field of crickets or a stack of hardware. The entrance of the bassline was the first moment in this EP one could call nasty. But its drive and weight is also tempered, played against by a clever drum break, a run of piano keys, and the ethereal reverb-washed vocal sample we expect in a piece of classic mid-90�s trance � absent, however, is any kind of signalling to Goa, �exoticism� or indigenous aesthetics. (1994 was also the year of Jean Paul Gaultier�s Les Tatouages collection, which, for all its romantic nomadism and deft tailoring and syncretic spirit, has no need of a 2020 update). Bliss Inc.�s songs stream, rather than track � one gets a sense that the elements flow in and out rather than ride a structure. Sansibar, who provides a remix of �Hacking the Planet� to round out the EP, is solidly a producer of tracks: often electro-derived ass-shaking material that hits, and hits in recognisable sections that progress serially. His version of the title cut brings in a hefty acid baseline, jungle-style stretched vocals, and kicks out of the 4/4 grid. But let there be no mistake, this is a producer also quite capable of coaxing delicacy out of hardware. The chimes of the lullaby-like breakdown halfway through the remix sound like nothing but a ghost in the machine. |
Love the title track, glorious stuff. Who would have thought 10 years ago we would be hearing brand new tracks like this ever again?
I might have to put together a sequel to A Secondhand Sunrise, because this stuff keeps on coming.
Reminds me of Young American Primitive tracks.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Love the title track, glorious stuff. Who would have thought 10 years ago we would be hearing brand new tracks like this ever again? I might have to put together a sequel to A Secondhand Sunrise, because this stuff keeps on coming. |
I haven't, but keep hitting me with recommendations. Will check her catalogue out tomorrow when I'm more sober.
Bandcamp bookmarked!
This pumps.
Ty.
A rather shameless plug, but I managed to squeeze this one into my newest mix alongside a few other '90s throwback tunes: http://tranceaddict.com/forums/show...s=#.X4omQdD0lPY
He recently did a remix featured on this EP, some other good stuff on here too.
Joe Morris - Spirit Walker (Bliss Inc. Remix)
According to Discogs, Bliss Inc is an alias of atmospheric drum 'n bass producer Oak. I've had this tune for years and always wanted to use it in a mix:
Oak - Mongoose
You may want to check out this artist's music for a somewhat similar style: https://vladimirgnatenko.bandcamp.com/
Also, these 2 releases:
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| Originally posted by montana Jack, have you heard the tracks of Cherushii? https://cherushii.bandcamp.com/music She was a producer making housier tracks but much in the vein of the older San Fransisco/Hardkiss sound with some acid and a lot of it has that mid 90's progressive house and sort of trancy touch to it. I would recommend checking out the "Queen Of Cups" EP, the two free EP:s called "Nobody's Fool EP" & "Starlight Express EP", The "Far Away, So Close" and the "Memory of Water". On the latter, there is one track especially that is gorgeous. It's called "Ultraviolet Nights" which is proper trancy. I loved her tracks and have played them quite a lot in my sets on shoutcast. Proper shame she passed away in 2016 in that Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire. |
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