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To be honest, dance is generally not my thing. My experiences of clubs are more ‘How Soon is Now?’ rather than ‘Born Slippy’, 300 people in a room having a great time… and me.
I have dabbled, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers and Underworld of course, every indie kid has done this, I did venture as far as Orbital and Lemon Jelly and as such I can at least appreciate the kind of area Digitonal inhabit. In fact, the further into the album you go (and reading the press sticker!) you understand this is not an album full of bleeps and tinny drums but a merging of classical concepts with electronic progression, Philip Glass merged with The Orb.
Fusing classical strings with gently pulsating dance beats to form beautifully crafted trance landscapes, at its best ‘Be Still My Bleeping Heart’ is full of warmth, conjuring images of sunrises and tranquil countryside, at worst it can be slightly self-indulgent and a tad dull.
Collecting together the ‘rest of’ rather than a ‘best of’, this represents an overview of tracks from 2002 – 2008 that had been released as various ‘home made’ recordings.
As a whole the album works as a beautiful piece of modern Vs. classic themes, cinematic soundscapes more in keeping with the come down rather than the height of any club night.
The gently undulating Seraphim (Angel Mix) with the slow build music box like strings joined by trip hop beats is achingly gorgeous and Come And Play lives up to the jovial title and has a mischievous feel.Whilst a few tracks to show a little of their age in the sound (Vearth) and a few don’t quite have enough ideas to fulfil their early promise, this is proof the art of the bedroom recording can still be a productive and worthwhile vocation and many of the tracks still shine brighter than many high end studio releases.