On his debut album for Martyn’s 3024, UK bassbin mutant Otik angles hardcore jungle, swanging garage house and beatdown with a weightless ambient tilt.
After a decade building a solid body of club cuts, ‘Cosmosis’ sees Otik occupy a wider album canvas with a full spectrum showcase of what makes him tick. Heartrush hardcore rave sits next to screwed garage house and bittersweet atmospheric asides recalling Wayne Phoenix in its 11-track sequence, slotting hand-in-glove to 3024’s brand of dancefloor romance and pathos that works equally well outside the club.
Bookended by scene-setting and sun-setting weightless works, the meat of the album explores multiple tempos for various points of the night. The title tune rushes up from ’92 style breaks via late ‘90s breakbeat trance arps in a proper 2023 mode, and the needlepoint stepper ’Odyssey’ also keeps it breathlessly up, with lush pause for reflection in the spine-tracing leads of ‘Blue Hills’ and the Reese-fuelled choral bliss ‘God Given’. The rest roves between the 110-130bpm brackets, rolling out into wide-eyed trance-house on ‘Epiphania’ and slowed down sort of Goan breaks sand trample in ‘Raw Whispers’ , and carrying that humid nocturnal feel in the drug chug of ‘Rebirth’, while ‘Geronimo’ and ‘Astra’ skip on a deep garage-techno axis redolent of Martyn.
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On his debut album for Martyn’s 3024, UK bassbin mutant Otik angles hardcore jungle, swanging garage house and beatdown with a weightless ambient tilt.
After a decade building a solid body of club cuts, ‘Cosmosis’ sees Otik occupy a wider album canvas with a full spectrum showcase of what makes him tick. Heartrush hardcore rave sits next to screwed garage house and bittersweet atmospheric asides recalling Wayne Phoenix in its 11-track sequence, slotting hand-in-glove to 3024’s brand of dancefloor romance and pathos that works equally well outside the club.
Bookended by scene-setting and sun-setting weightless works, the meat of the album explores multiple tempos for various points of the night. The title tune rushes up from ’92 style breaks via late ‘90s breakbeat trance arps in a proper 2023 mode, and the needlepoint stepper ’Odyssey’ also keeps it breathlessly up, with lush pause for reflection in the spine-tracing leads of ‘Blue Hills’ and the Reese-fuelled choral bliss ‘God Given’. The rest roves between the 110-130bpm brackets, rolling out into wide-eyed trance-house on ‘Epiphania’ and slowed down sort of Goan breaks sand trample in ‘Raw Whispers’ , and carrying that humid nocturnal feel in the drug chug of ‘Rebirth’, while ‘Geronimo’ and ‘Astra’ skip on a deep garage-techno axis redolent of Martyn.
On his debut album for Martyn’s 3024, UK bassbin mutant Otik angles hardcore jungle, swanging garage house and beatdown with a weightless ambient tilt.
After a decade building a solid body of club cuts, ‘Cosmosis’ sees Otik occupy a wider album canvas with a full spectrum showcase of what makes him tick. Heartrush hardcore rave sits next to screwed garage house and bittersweet atmospheric asides recalling Wayne Phoenix in its 11-track sequence, slotting hand-in-glove to 3024’s brand of dancefloor romance and pathos that works equally well outside the club.
Bookended by scene-setting and sun-setting weightless works, the meat of the album explores multiple tempos for various points of the night. The title tune rushes up from ’92 style breaks via late ‘90s breakbeat trance arps in a proper 2023 mode, and the needlepoint stepper ’Odyssey’ also keeps it breathlessly up, with lush pause for reflection in the spine-tracing leads of ‘Blue Hills’ and the Reese-fuelled choral bliss ‘God Given’. The rest roves between the 110-130bpm brackets, rolling out into wide-eyed trance-house on ‘Epiphania’ and slowed down sort of Goan breaks sand trample in ‘Raw Whispers’ , and carrying that humid nocturnal feel in the drug chug of ‘Rebirth’, while ‘Geronimo’ and ‘Astra’ skip on a deep garage-techno axis redolent of Martyn.
On his debut album for Martyn’s 3024, UK bassbin mutant Otik angles hardcore jungle, swanging garage house and beatdown with a weightless ambient tilt.
After a decade building a solid body of club cuts, ‘Cosmosis’ sees Otik occupy a wider album canvas with a full spectrum showcase of what makes him tick. Heartrush hardcore rave sits next to screwed garage house and bittersweet atmospheric asides recalling Wayne Phoenix in its 11-track sequence, slotting hand-in-glove to 3024’s brand of dancefloor romance and pathos that works equally well outside the club.
Bookended by scene-setting and sun-setting weightless works, the meat of the album explores multiple tempos for various points of the night. The title tune rushes up from ’92 style breaks via late ‘90s breakbeat trance arps in a proper 2023 mode, and the needlepoint stepper ’Odyssey’ also keeps it breathlessly up, with lush pause for reflection in the spine-tracing leads of ‘Blue Hills’ and the Reese-fuelled choral bliss ‘God Given’. The rest roves between the 110-130bpm brackets, rolling out into wide-eyed trance-house on ‘Epiphania’ and slowed down sort of Goan breaks sand trample in ‘Raw Whispers’ , and carrying that humid nocturnal feel in the drug chug of ‘Rebirth’, while ‘Geronimo’ and ‘Astra’ skip on a deep garage-techno axis redolent of Martyn.