Shark Water by Dreems

Dreems, the Multi Culti co-commandor, rebounds onto Le Temps Perdu for the first time since 2016. A lot has happened since then, for both the label and the artist. Each growing, developing and coming into bloom. However there still remains the initial connection that brought them together in the early stages of both of their ’sonic-journeys’. That connection - a desire to connect the unknown shoulder to shoulder - continues in this next chapter.

The catalogue number LTP0700 suggests that these songs sit somewhere on the dance floor, most likely at the epicentre of the a gathering, aired out at 7am - when the consciousness sets adrift from the body and life ‘under the sea’ suddenly seems all too plausible.

The ‘Abyss Mix’ revisits one of the more tough-edged tracks from the Dreems catalogue, reimagined with the applied use of a few archetypal soundtrack sounds. Don’t be swayed by the obvious choice of theme here - it’s intention is to make you feel mystery and threat in equal measures.

Die Orangen appear from the depths, steering the 9 minute groove into the eye of the storm. With a few twists and turns they manage to slide in themes that at the same time feel disparate and cohesive. Shoe-Gaze-Funk-e-Industralia? Caution - don’t paddle out to this one at dusk or dawn.

The rhythm of modulated drum grooves washing up against diaphanous chords in ‘Dolphin Communion’ play the perfect underwater backdrop for the poetry and words of John Sea Lilly, the highly regarded marine scientist and botanist turned electronic music councillor.

At last and at least not the last from this man - Inigo Vontier - a remix that weaves mucho fun and enough funky funky weirdness to satisfy any weird funky funky enthusiast to the core. His ‘Mushroom Mix’ gave the package a deft organic touch - surf ’n' turf they call it in Australia.

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