Review: Lance De Sardi's Brother Nebula project has a wide focus, exploring styles as diverse as hard techno and IDM. The focus on The Grandeur Of Delusions is no different from the project's previous releases. "Mach Loop" is hypnotic techno that resounds to atmospheric tones and dreamy sound scapes. On "Ice Giant", he changes his approach to deliver a stripped back track that resounds to steely drums. The title track sees a change in approach. Based on gentle break beats, it teems with shimmering synths and dreamy melodies that ebb and flow gently. "God's Green Earth" has a similar focus with a soulful vocal hanging over brittle breaks.
Review: Earlier in the year, Peter and James Isaacs delivered arguably their strongest release to date: a fine four-tracker on Permanent Vacation that offered a perfectly formed summary of their nostalgia-meets-futurism inspired trademark sound. They continue where they left off on 'Bassian Plain', adding echoing, Yello style samples, raygun-powered synth sounds and fizzing lead lines to a colossal synth bassline, hard-wired acid lines and effects-laden drum machine beats. They add a touch of alien-sounding nu-disco colour to the TB-303 heavy acid house blueprint on 'The Isthmus of Kra', before Alex Kassian re-imagines 'Bassian Plain' as a deep, dreamy, colourful and all-action slab of breakbeat house heaviness.
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