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REVIEW: Manmachine - Where's Cynthia out on Lost Language


1.Where's Cynthia
2.Burner
3.Phosphorescent


Next up in our 'quality trance for discerning adults' series is Manmachine's extended player, 'Where's Cynthia?'.

Miroslav Bako has worked in music for more than 15 years, composing theatre, film and TV scores in his native Serbia, while simultaneously releasing tracks on Ovnimoon, Goa and Yellow Sunshine Explosion, under his Psychedelic alter ego - Manmachine.

We can hear the well crafted cogs of these collective talents whirring away on each of these three productions, with arpeggiated melodies spun throughout the brooding, mechanical grooves of 'Where's Cynthia?' - a peak time Psy-Fi record that's home to a grandiose riff of cinematic proportions. 

'Burner' continues down a similar path before the clockwork beats make way for a beautiful, delicate riff, providing an atmospheric breakdown that will have the wide eyed automatons swooning. 

A much deeper, darker 'Phosphorescent' rounds off the package, 5am warehouse style. It's another beautifully built track, as much about the industrial funk as it is about it's epic Goan crescendo. 

We're immensely proud to be releasing such high quality, forward thinking productions. This is Skynet futurism for a steam powered scene, trans-humanism for trance-humanists. 

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Dimitri Kechagias review: Lost Language is the legendary label headed by Ben Lost who always impress us with the selection of the tracks he chooses to release on his label. The latest one comes from the hands of Manmachine from Serbia who delivers 3 great productions that move loosely on the psy trance spectrum of what we term as trance nowadays. Where's Cynthia is an energetic fast and furious psy prog trancer with darkness and depth in its soundtextures. Hypnotic addictive riff is coming to the surface to get the clubbers hooked and mesmerised straight away.  Burner is a wonderful melodic slower progressive trancer with great percussion that adds a tasty live element in it and fantastic cinematic melody in the breakdown with origins in classical music. Floating and flowing it will be impossible to resist its hypnotic effect on you. Lastly Phosphorescent as the title suggests is a tougher prime time prog trancer with tribal beats, acid overtones, driving basslines, abstract vocal samples and cool melodic layers. The result as the title suggests is a colourful prog trancer ready made for the summer open air festivals like EXIT in Serbia. Love iT!

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