Techno triple with: Justin Black, Torolf Stendik, and Cinder #Techno #MelodicTechno #Electronic

As a Friday treat here’s three techno tracks ranging from melodic techno through acid to some fierce techno courtesy of Justin Black, Torolf Stendik and Cinder.

Justin Black is first up with Just Kids. He’s from Phoenix, Arizona and the track is a melodic techno one baked to perfection into a crisp tasty whole. There’s a lovely spacey and spaced sense to this track. The lead synth bobbles airily around giving that sense of fun and optimism. It’s a lovely affair with beats keeping a respectful and unobtrusive distance. Almost ventures into downtempo but has to much of a sense of adventure to settle anywhere with it’s itchy dancing feet feel. Perfect early evening material.

Next it’s back to Europe for Torolf Stendik and the unfeasible entitled Bryggan Jam (Harald Björk Rise Like A Phoenix Version). We’re obviously in Northern climes here. Torolf Stendik is the pseudonym of Finnish artist Vesa-Matti Kivioja. And Harald Bjork is a Swedish artist.

They combine on the mammoth ten minute remix of Rise Like A Phoenix. This is a classic game of two halves, with sometimes the two halves going on at the same time – if that makes any sense. The first half and underlying sense of the track is a downtempo psychedelic Balearic ambient track that spirals out into the furthest reaches of the galaxy forever. Meanwhile, there’s a big acid monster stirring in the darkness. Slowly at first it awakes to wrestle with any suggestion of peace in space. It’s a titanic track of limitless ambition in which to gradually lose your mind.

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And so to France and some more acid from Cinder. The track – Wildfire Part 1 (Blow-Up Mix) – is an adaptation of one from a live show. As Cinder explains, “As I have no clue about when I’ll be able to perform my acid techno lives how again, I was thinking that it was the right time to share with you some of the tracks I specifically created for this live show. Most of these tracks are reinterpretations of the tracks featured on my debut album Wildfire, but there are also some completely original tunes that I never released properly before.”

Wildfire is a lovely tune with a string-drenched start alongside old school US samples. It’s also a bit Eastern in the way the strings are deployed. This gives it a sense of being about and from everywhere. The beats are taken from all the way back to early techno days with that late 80s tinniness to them. But in this context it works perfectly. And then there’s the acid, snuck in as a kind of beefy bass line. Gives the track a depth it would otherwise lack. If only we could dance gain.

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~ by acidted on August 14, 2020.