7th Plain, The - To Be Surreal

Isn’t it great to listen to those golden techno moments and be completely overwhelmed by the sound? This masterpiece has that effect on me. ‘To Be Surreal’ and ‘Millentum’ are wonderful, spacy techno tracks from the early nineties. I believe this is Luke Slater’s most beautiful record under his 7th plain guise. And that means a lot when you have listened to fantastic albums like ‘My Yellow Wise Rug’ and ‘The 4 Cornered Room’.

It is music made in the years when techno and ambient melted so well together. Luke Slater was one of the champions in creating multi-layered tracks without losing the atmosphere. He made tracks where you could listen to, over and over again and where you could always hear something new. I hope these tracks will last forever and will be rediscovered in the future, rather than his ‘commercial’ recordings which are forgettable.