1 Xterminator 17 10:25
2 Chrome 5:57
3 Am Morgen 5:45
4 Evening Lights 8:32
5 Ambios 1 1:55
6 Sleeping Madness 11:58
7 The Grind 12:47
8 Ambios 2 2:59
9 The Heist 11:58
10 Requiem 7:10
SynGate | CD-r ANSD01 (CD/DDL 79:32) ****¼
(Mix of New Berlin School, ambient beats and IDM)
The fans of EM were very curious in front of this collaboration between Wolfgang Barkowski and Stan Dart; an artist who is rather recognized to make Electronica and Chill with the concept of Cinematic Electronic Chill Art. What will this fusion between the cosmic electronic rock of Alien Nature, from whom the superb The Airlight Garage of Jerry Cornelius
"Evening Lights" adopts a little the same pattern than "Xterminator 17", the structure here is as much rich and lively, except that the rhythm is more electronic, more fluid, less minimalist and maybe wilder. This is very good! That makes the blood running in our feet. The atmospheres of "Ambios 1" guide us to "Sleeping Madness"; a strong track, a very technoïd one which is compacted by good electronic effects. That does very Jarre! The rhythm is heavy, curt and hopping with beautiful variance which enrich a harmonious approach that will make vibrate our ears. But not as much as with "The Grind" which is going to sink sequenced melody deep inside your ears. A melody which is going to roll in loops all day long in your head. Simplistic with 8 sequenced chords which float lightly in a rich cosmic envelope, the melody is supported by solid orchestrations. This rhythm evaporates its robot-like and technoïd atmospheres in an approach of trance collective of some hot and humid dance floors. It's a little jewel of obsession! It sounds like some Moonbooter at his best and at his heaviest. After the small ambiocosmic bridge of "Ambios 2", "The Heist" takes back a structure of breakneck pace with a sharp pulsatory movement to where are grafted percussions hammered on soft wood and rosaries of sequences which describe stroboscopic thin lines. This kind of mixture between the music of dance and the techno reminds me the structures of Visage in its eponym album as well as those of Jarre in Teo and Tea, but in a clearly stronger vision. "Requiem" concludes “Accelerator” with a theatrical approach which develops in the course of its minutes into a good symphonic e-rock. A piano and a keyboard are switching melancholic chords in the opening, weaving a dark melody which little by little swaps its mortuary moods for a rhythm which grows gradually in smooth orchestral cuddles in order to reach a slow staccato caressed by the calm strokes of violins, pierced by very intrusive synth solos and transported by deafening booms-booms. It's the signature of “Accelerator”!
When Wolfgang Barkowski's name appears somewhere, we have to have an open mind because his works are mainly beautiful small jewels which have this gift to bring the artist to another level. And it's exactly the case with this project. “Accelerator” is a striking album of EM which plays constantly between the borders of the New Berlin School model and the IDM (or EMD according to) where the electronic and symphonic rock of Alien Nature lives without shade in the Electronica approach of Stan Dart. It's great EM! And at the risk of repeating myself; the electronic effects and the arrangements are breathtaking...
Sylvain Lupari (December 4th, 2015)
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