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It is almost becoming a full-time job keeping up with the Drexciya output which has been hitting us in waves (or storms as they like to call them) during the past year. Having just assimilated their excellent yet oblique album Harnessed the Storm they not only produce another clever side-project under the Arpanet guise but find time to release the fourth Drexciya album on the Rotterdam Clone label as well. While there is a danger of product overload, anyone with a passing interest in Drexcyen music and mythos is urged to investigate Grava 4 since the group has made some important shifts. For the first time these aquatic life forms have decided to leave the blue planet heading out into space. Their goal: planet Drexciya. And yes, the planet really does exist; Clone reports the group has bought the rights for a star (found in the international star registry under the coordinates ra18h35m37.73 d3'22'31.12").
Being such masters of the concept, this change of myth immediately has an effect on the music. While Harnessed the Storm displayed a gentler oceanic side to the Drexcyen sound world, Grava 4 opens up the harsh claustrophobic music and lets the expanse of the cosmos guide the new quest. Opener Cascading Celestial Giants immediately exhibits this new breathing space: a slow rotating bass is intertwined with aural stardust and an exquisite melody. Those afraid of space will be kept happy with trademark electro tracks like the sinister Powers of the Deep and the rumbling Ociya Syndor. Yet for the most part Drexciya seem to have followed the star maps of Model 500 and Underground Resistance, their sound adapting to their new lush habitat and becoming more techno-like on excellent tracks like the spaced-out Drexcyen Star Chamber, the bouncing Gravity Ways and the rolling Drexcyen R.E.S.T. Principle.
As it stands Grava 4 presents some of Drexciya's strongest music to date, as always self-assured but nowadays haunted by a new alien beauty that is as seductive, mysterious as it is undeniable. For those feeling a bit of space sickness just follow the weird instructions on the closing track: 'Use the star chart to fix the celestial navigation point. From there you should be able to plug your path back to earth by using rudimentary data posts'. The fifth storm is over; we are heading back to earth for the rumored sixth and seventh storm, calmly awaiting the revelation of the dimensional jump hole located somewhere in Africa. The legend continues.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/drexciya/grava-4/1803/
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