DeepChord presents Echospace

This week they released Silent World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) in many forms...vinyl, digital and CD, all being a bit different. I've been listening to the 71 minute mixed version and the digital unmixed version for near 2 days straight. This is epic, a truly special composition that pulses, breaths and possess it's own soul. A captivating soundtrack to a movie that does not exist...or does it?

DeepChord/Echospace are Rod Modell and Stephan Hitchell and whatever the moniker they release under (Variant, Soultek, Intrusion, cv313 etc...) if you are a fan of dub techno you know them from the first note. For 10+ years they have taken on what Basic Channel and the like established and defined the Detroit sound. Using mostly analog instruments, vintage gear and tape they have crafted a catalog of classic material that culminated with 2007's Modern Love release "The Coldest Season", a masterpiece of deep, hypnotic waves that resides firmly on my best of all time list. These are special artists of our day.

This new record raises the bar even higher. Very different than The Coldest Season, an evolution into deeper groove, warmer and more alive. It grows roots from the hazy, ambient intro In Echospace and builds to the throbbing, tribal BNC Dub and Hydrodynamics, my 2 favorite tracks at the moment. This record is a journey, it has pace, movement and control. It's patient and it captivates. It's composition that has a soul.

As usual, I know this genre is not for all here in the Agon music forum. I also am sure there are some members that do enjoy it as much as I and others that are interested in exploring some of what is being done outside of their typical travels. It's an album that moves me and one of the better releases I havee heard in quite some time.