Fluxion - [spaces]

Spaces is a study on relaxation. It is the own Fluxion's concept of ambient pushed to its boundaries. Each track is structured like an environment, and is the sonic equivalent of it's own name : with a subtle, intelligent use of reverbs and echoes, Konstantinos Soublis makes you feel like you're actually in the real place the track describes...

Field I is a concrete example of how you can hear sounds echoed in a field, Corridor reproduces the shape of an actual endless corridor, where you hear the sounds bouncing against the walls. The whole album is somehow based on this idea. In Coast you can almost hear the sound of waves silently crashing against the cliffs, only lacking the cries of gulls. Unechoic Room immediately makes me think of some kind of strange machinery trapped in a narrow room.

But the best track of the album is definitely Field II : this track, you can only experience it with good headphones, lied on a sofa, the head resting on a soft pillow, hearing the sounds floating above you, and almost expect to open your eyes and find yourself in a real field, in the middle of the night.

An essential purchase.

If 3D sound holograms of sublime subtlety and auditory texture sounds like it appeals to you, this is your album.

These are sound environments. From the fizzy effervescent Corridor to the slow expansive rumblings of Coast. The funereal Decay Section to the cold dawn breeze of Field II. Genius.

Anyone familiar with Berlin-style minimal techno will appreciate this work for what it is: a classic work on par with Maurizio and Monolake, if totally different from them, and made by a young Greek named Kostas Soublis.