Pre-Friday joy with: The Ocean Beneath – Tempus

Tricky day pre-Friday. Too early to celebrate the weekend but too far in to the week to find much else to celebrate. If that’s your dilemma then get some celebration going with this joyous piece of melodic techno from The Ocean Beneath.

The returning The Ocean Beneath is a prog house and melodic techno outfit from Leeds, UK. Their new EP is called The Lost. They explain it as “get ready for huge beats, complex layers of emotional sound and a failed hard drive that put us back a year. ”

Instead of the title track I’m featuring the other track Tempus (Latin for Time). This is a total blast. All the euphoric bits of prog house and melodic techno welded together into a shiny wall of sound.

This opens on a building peak as a statement of intent. There’s a bit of pitched vocal but I’m ignoring that because very soon this builds to a big glitter all of sound. Synths and beats all pump away fit to make your heart burst.

There’s nothing terribly subtle here but when euphoria is delivered as skilfully as this, who cares? Keyboards pound and hands are waved in the air.

If last time’s Sunrise was about the comedown, this is all about the peak time rush. Perfectly delivered.

~ by acidted on May 16, 2024.