The 2nd album of Reliq, an alter-ego of Serph, released in 2014.
If Serph's music rings from utopia, Reliq's music sounds from a real-life metropolis. It is a documentary rather than fantasy, joy rather than fascination, sentimentalism rather than fairy tale. Reliq's music also affects the body in a dance music-like way.
The new work has the same graceful and sensual exoticism, combined with a mixture of ghetto music such as juke, track, and a variety of the latest bass musics, with a stronger emphasis on rhythm. As a result of such mixture with the prodigious pop identity, the work has become a condensation of dance music's practicality and the complexities of heavy listening, a trickster-like, mysterious electronic music.
According to Reliq, the theme of his new album "Metatropics" is a "new type of tropical music in the midst of a global climate change". It is a sound-track for us, living in an increasingly sci-fi world, the future of this concrete jungle. Witness Reliq's infinite ideas and experimental spirit, leaping into the endless possibilities of electronic music.