Daulizm

Finally, an electronic album with a real concept! Finnish producer Jori Hulkkonen has unofficially divided this new long player into two halves: it represents his ambitions to make ‘serious’ music, unlike most of his peers, who only refer in passing to their desire to be rated as true artists. The reflective piano keys on ‘Science’ and the mournful mood Jori conjures up on ‘Some Distant Memory’ sound like Miles Davis’ most introspective work re-interpreted in a post-techno environment. However, for every stab at studied musicality, Hulkkonen dishes up bittersweet electro synth pop nuggets like recent single ‘Lo Fiction’ and the haunting ‘Dislocated’ and the dark, ebm-influenced techno of ‘Fermi Paradox’. If other producers took Jori’s lead, electronic music would be a far more exciting place.