Jega - Variance
Artist:

Jega

Titel:

Variance

Label:

Planet MU

Cat-no:

ZIQ 024CD

Stil:

Ambient / IDM

Typ: 2CD
Preis: 16 CHF
***2CD***...Described as the Stanley Kubrick of electronic music, having not released an album in 9 years, Manchester's Dylan Nathan a.k.a. Jega is finally set to release his brand new album "Variance" on the Planet Mu record label.

In 2003 a draft version of the album was leaked onto the internet forcing Dylan to return to the drawing board and re-write vast chunks of the material. Since then factors outside music have meant Jega's re-location from Manchester to New York and now LA, where he currently lives, and the delay of the project even further. The resulting double album, 18 tracks spread over two cds, bears little if any relation to the leaked material of so many years back.

The album is split into two 9 track journeys each given their own cd or LP. "Variance Volume 1" is the light, and "Variance Volume 2" the darkness. On Vol.1 beautiful synth arpeggios battle with sampled flutes and organic sounding hip hop and soul inspired breaks. On "Antiphon" a lone piano weaves around synthetic rhythms that sound like insects chirping and plastic sounding strings impart a real futuristic soul to the song. The overall mood is one of joy and hope with many of the melodies featuring rising cadences of notes, resolving in the major. Vol2. is altogether starker. Starting with "Tensor" an electro-acoustic sound sculpture and building up into the dystopian melodies, electro beats and dubstep bass of "Shibuya", In tracks like "Kyoto" and "Hydrodynamic" digital processing and harsh jungle breaks heighten the tempo and the mood towards the end of the disc.

Although Dylan's discography is relatively short considering he has been in the game since 1996, it does include releases on Skam and two seminal breakthrough albums on Planet Mu. Dylan's first single "Type Xer0 E.P." and it's follow up album "Spectrum" initially inspired Mike Paradinas a.k.a. ?-ZIQ to start up the fledgling Planet Mu as an independent label,an achievement in itself that should not be overlooked. His second album, 2000's "Geometry", went on to push his evolving sound from hardcore influenced melodica to futuristic techno inspired stark digital landscapes.


CD 1:

01. "Soul Flute"
02. "Antiphon"
03. "Moment"
04. "The Girl Who Fell To Earth"
05. "Sakura"
06. "Eva"
07. "Dreams"
08. "Aqueminae"
09. "Zenith"

CD 2.

01. "Tensor"
02. "Shibuya"
03. "Chromadynamic"
04. "Cascade Decoherence"
05. "Aerodynamic"
06. "Latinhypercube"
07. "Kyoto"
08. "Hyperdynamic"
09. "Reprise"




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