Volt

Turismo brilliant, I can see the comparison made elsewhere with the new Tour de France completely. Orient Stress is simply wonderful. Mundo Libre continues the adept skill with which this album appears to have been put together with. Totally recommended already and I'm only on the third track, though admittedly working my way backwards through the Vate repertoire for some reason. I try my best. This third track reminds me of Kraftwerk, and is a tribute not only in name but style. Beautiful stuff that dreams are made of. Hertz is right on my wavelength, though this album has foxed me a couple of times when I have tried to listen and review, something else has turned up to distract and deflect me from my quest. I have a lot to listen to, with just this artist. Anyway, so far so good.

Info gets off to a good start, I like it (not having heard the earlier Aeronautica, so not seeing any similarities), and am enjoying the consistency of the force majeure. What Watt is, is what all electronic music should be, and herein is, and that is dynamic. Electronics are about the manipulation of energy into soundwaves through appropriate instrumentation, which appears to be well handled and organised in this album, which remains bright throughout it seems. Amper starts with an apocalyptic boom and engenders a world where only the machines remain. Nice soundscape. Bleeping ambience. The title track, seems to continue the ambient nature of the previous track, but now it's post-apocalyptic resurrection. The amp growing into the volt and so on upwards to the point of symbiosis perhaps. Yo soy maquina seems quite desolate, as if the last hope for humanity has faded. Great album.

From the very beginning of the record one finds that it is the same old good Vate we like so much. Turismo, the first tune of the LP is Tour de France of the modern era, when car rallies replaced bicycle ones. I have already written about the next piece, Orient Stress, and I can only repeat that it's the most energetic one composed by Vate. Highly recommendable mixture of industrial samples with electro mood. Mundo Libre is a little bit similar. Still nice beat and melodic keyboard. Hertz has a great, radiative mood. Info is too similar to the tunes from previous Aeronautica..., but for those who do not know this album it still may be catchy. Watt is a very mechanical tune with one keyboard melody being very much intruding and engaging. Amper is quite the oppposite, very ambiental and etheric. The eponymous tune is quite Autechre-like in its beat and composition, with only one a little bit annoying sample. Yo soy maquina is another obvious Kraftwerk-tribute in name, but more experimental in style. Summarizing, Vate created another extremely interesting concept album, dealing mainly with electicity. Something like Kraftwerk's Radioactivity on the jamendo scale of course. The cover is great so it's ten form me this time. I suppose it's Vate's Opus Magnum, as for now of course.