01: Animatic
With ‘Invader’, ‘Telling Tales’ and most recently ‘Zoundz’, both in solo and collaboration modes, Chris Bekker delivered some of last year’s most exciting (not to mention stylistically elusive) electronic music cuts.
Now, turning his fourth ace in as many releases, the young Berliner drops ‘Animatic’. Another beautifully judged, exactingly produced piece of studio work, it once again hovers engagingly within the nexus of several different musical sub-genres.
‘Animatic’ (definition: ‘successively shooting a storyboard while adding the soundtrack’, lest you didn’t know!) smartly drums up house beats, skipping percussion and ether-inducing sub-riffs. Grafting them layer-by-layer over a progressive tempo and applying analogue-ish bass, electro-lining distortion and shafts melody along the way, he delivers something as compellingly danceable, as it is inscrutably intriguing.
What type of music it is exactly… well, only you can decide that!
* You can catch Chris Bekker, on the decks, going back-to-back with his ‘Zoundz’ co-producer (and fellow VANDIT knight) @ Paul van Dyk’s We Are One 2015 festival, Rummelsberg Beach in Berlin, this July 4th – full details here: www.weareonefestival.com/ *
Supported By: Giuseppe Ottaviani, Binary Finary, Johan Gielen, Kenneth Thomas, Paul Trainer
and many more
Dimitri Kechagias review: Every week on your global download shop waits for you the brand new VANDIT records release. The next one lined-up comes from the beloved Chris Bekker. The hardworking and extremely beloved and smiling dj deliver a stunning anthem that could only be released under VANDIT records progressive vision of what electronic music should be freed from desire to be one style or the other. Animatic is melodic energetic progressive trancer with strong house elements that characterise Chris roots in the previous years. The tribal techy drums, the pulsating basslines, the chord progression and the very strong emotional melodies in the long and atmospheric breakdown will definitely uplift your spirit and give you the adrenaline rush you are waiting for. His climax is balancing between sharp tech grooves, punchy basslines and hi-nrg synthy stabs that have an immediate effect on your body and of course in your overall sonic experience that Chris invites you so openhearted to share with you and let the juices of happiness overflow! #PureGold Love It
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