| Tune: | Still Moving LP |
| Artist: | Polar |
| Label: | Cert 18 |
| Release Date: | 5th November 2001 |
| Buy Soon at: | [Cert 18 Store] |
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Bipolar Suns:
A good opener which certainly has a different feel to most tracks being pumped around the scene at the moment. An abstract atmosphere opens the LP on a spaced out trip to trippy land.
Backlight:
A shift in direction with backlight turning towards a more sliced and diced breaks and beats percussion. Stepping up from a slow and sincere beginning to a more energetic outburst
Inside the plot:
And back to the abstract we go, soothing rhythm and hollow basslines start off a tune that surely takes you on a mystical journey of ambient sounds.
Nascent dream:
Stabbing synths, beats and voiced samples blast into effect at the beginning of this one. This tune is purely a product of instrumental intelligence, with so many different effects dropping in and out, you find yourself being swept away within a sea of musical madness.
Near the horizon:
Hard to describe the feeling to this track. You get a slow but ambient feel which you expect to step up and take off into a percussion frenzy, but it never comes.
White walls:
This reminds me of myself sitting in my cot looking up at my mobile spinning around. This tune sounds like that spinning mobile, but of course, with added electronic components and interchanging deep beats, interesting to say the least.
The white chambers:
A deep whirring bassline and brilliantly executed beats and keyboard samples breaks into the second half of the album nicely. Expect a perfectly timed electro composition, best tune so far.
Still Moving:
The album titler shows a more mysterious side to the album, the longest of all tracks it presents a scientific electro experience with well in tuned beats and sharp riffs.
Red Triangles:
An electric whirlwind of percussions sweeps you into a state of sublimity on dis track. A nicely put together tune provides us with a chill out tune to listen to while driving in our topless ferrari’s :)
Ill-formed Sensation:
Love the intro to this one. Like lighting comes before the thunder, this tune storms into effect almost straight away with intensified synths flashing and the beats banging. Its full on musical chairs from then on, with plenty of diversity flowing out ya speakers!
Nightwatch:
Tick tock, tick tock, a futuristic sounding grandfather clock kicks in to introduce another fine production. A mixture of different beats and sounds again shows the talents of Polar.
Sam:
Rounding off the Long Player is a slow melodic track that brings the album slowly to a halt
Overall: 8/10 , 12 tracks with over 70 minutes of ambient and experimental drum and bass can’t be bad can it? Certainly not in this case, it is a fine example of why Certificate 18 are up there among the elite when it comes to putting out the best in electro diversity. A top notch album demonstrates why Polar looks to become the leading artist of the camp in the not so near future, if your into futuristic beats and melodic rhythms this one is for you, and if you ain’t then this one will change ya! Our Fav Tracks are: Ill-formed Sensations, Nascent Dream & White Walls.
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