30th celestial orbit edition of Juan Atkins’ deep Detroit techno classic, charting some of the furthest reaches of the project that began in 1985 and helped light the Detroit touchpaper.
Notably engineered by Moritz Von Oswald at the beginning of his Maurizio & Basic Channel journey, ‘Sonic Sunset’ would help mark the point where Juan Atkins broke with Detroit’s electro, house and early techno traditions and headed for the outer reaches of the techno galaxy. Glyding across the grid with a more aerodynamic sense of propulsion, Atkins hailed new horizons with ‘Sonic Sunset’ that would lead to his landmark Deep Space’ album a year later. The five tracks are entirely characteristic of a shark-like approach to always moving forward during this era, setting new benchmarks of duration with a sustained, hypnotic elegance and purring drive that deeply imprinted itself on techno’s collective imagination.
Getting into the groove with two relatively succinct works lodged in the sublime tension of percolated choral pads and arps to ‘Sonic Sunset (Calm Mix)’ and its thrumming take-off in the ‘Cave Mix’, the EP really gets into gear with the 12’ of breathtaking lushness in ‘Neptune’ - a surefire blueprint for Convextion - and keeps it up, and out, there with 19’ of hi-tech jazz techno bliss suffused with his own vocals on ‘I Wanna Be There’, culminating in the brisk flight of ‘Sonic Sunset (Third wave Mix)’ and hairs on end.
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30th celestial orbit edition of Juan Atkins’ deep Detroit techno classic, charting some of the furthest reaches of the project that began in 1985 and helped light the Detroit touchpaper.
Notably engineered by Moritz Von Oswald at the beginning of his Maurizio & Basic Channel journey, ‘Sonic Sunset’ would help mark the point where Juan Atkins broke with Detroit’s electro, house and early techno traditions and headed for the outer reaches of the techno galaxy. Glyding across the grid with a more aerodynamic sense of propulsion, Atkins hailed new horizons with ‘Sonic Sunset’ that would lead to his landmark Deep Space’ album a year later. The five tracks are entirely characteristic of a shark-like approach to always moving forward during this era, setting new benchmarks of duration with a sustained, hypnotic elegance and purring drive that deeply imprinted itself on techno’s collective imagination.
Getting into the groove with two relatively succinct works lodged in the sublime tension of percolated choral pads and arps to ‘Sonic Sunset (Calm Mix)’ and its thrumming take-off in the ‘Cave Mix’, the EP really gets into gear with the 12’ of breathtaking lushness in ‘Neptune’ - a surefire blueprint for Convextion - and keeps it up, and out, there with 19’ of hi-tech jazz techno bliss suffused with his own vocals on ‘I Wanna Be There’, culminating in the brisk flight of ‘Sonic Sunset (Third wave Mix)’ and hairs on end.