808state* - Don Solaris

Crijevo, Jan 31, 2003

After wandering around turntables for so long, making intelligent pieces but actually getting nowhere particular, 808 States Don Solaris is their most organised, or better say ambitious album to date. It flirts heavily with drumnbass but its still their own trademarks and equipment acknowledgements they make it sound so unique and of their own. They always hated the dance-music term so by escaping that reference to their stuff, they were fairly experimental, and Don Solaris crossed that expermental edge at its most impressive level. Rhodes and Bradfield decently fitted in with their vocals to accompany amazingly peculiar pieces which in their nature dont directly serve the purpose as if being songs, but mesmerizingly beautiful installations for occasional vocals and massive, melodic noise. To expect more than this is a sin. Lets face it, this album is a masterpiece in the groups own right.

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