The Visitor :: Ondarock reviews

The Vessel, second chapter. We broke up with the conclusion of Faith's tragic story, a revolutionary soul within the dystopian capital of the universe created by KinoTeki, now we resume our peregrination in the Tecnocapitalist universe designed by producer New Yorker with new eyes, a look that expands it, sometimes he sides his vision. To accompany us in this tour for the city is now Julie, the daughter of two members of the high board with whom he entertains a far from ideal relationship, to the eternal search for the love denied, found himself despite being an integral part of a war started with the nearby United States. The future that awaits us? Impossible to establish it, the fact remains that in “The Visitor”, his most expanded project, the author of authentic electronic travel centers his most accomplished work, a compelling path in the meanders of a style that successfully reintroduces the past house of the beginning , combining them with the vast lexicon Footwork, jungle And bass dominant over the past few years. In the fog of the night, however, a completely new mystery hovers.

If it is true that elements of the great season Dubstep have always peeked into the manufacturer's career, nevertheless along the eighteen songs of “The Visitor” these become essential, build intelates and trace fittings such as to remember the Hyperdub approach at the beginning of his adventure. There will not be Burial's rainy touch, there will be no minimalist character as the best Kode9, however there is the same urban attitude itself, the metropolitan character of a music that spreads between avenues and palaces, is made to be there with concrete and With the glass, making them the stage of a frantic emotional research. In addition to the cacophony of the streets, beyond the surrounding noise, the art of Kinoteki crystallizes the soul of a city that is theater and prison at the same time, the platform of an action that knows how to be sweet and melancholy (i break full of energy soulful of the “Make Me Understand” coupling-“Felthurt AM”), now owned by an unmanageable anger (the vocal phrasing in the wake screenam who break “path angel/eternal sacrifice”).

In the middle the dynamism of the affair emerges overwhelmingly, the strong chiaroscuro of a narration as physical as it is mental, capable of taking charge of racing in a loss (as in the Future-Funk Sketch of “Close Yr Mind”) as to investigate the most hidden thoughts, the nostalgia ever expressed (the smooth melodism wing Ross from Friends intercepted in the expanded spaces of “In My Mind”).
The producer plays with narrative plans with great ease, gives new light to sound of “Dawn of the Final Hour” by injecting it with appropriate environmental rarefactions (the tender regret of “in YR Head”) and dispersing obvious results, letting history take its course until the inexorable Requiem.

Of course, so much of the personal experience of KinoTeki filter, by his own admission, in the plots of the project, but also not to have this data, the excellent management of the times and shifts emerges, the variety of registers that on this trip is charged of further meanings. From the joints Juke of “160 proof”, to trance Ball of the long “Stray Dog”, the New York signs among the most unforgettable moments of his career, bringing to the highest consequences the expansion path started several years ago. Nothing better for the most solid album of the producerthe full expression of one of the most elastic minds of contemporary electronics.

30/01/2025