Pond Life Records returns with the debut EP from label founder, Robi, entitled ‘Overnight’ and comprising three original modular fuelled, atmospheric compositions.
Pond Life Records was launched in 2018 and across the past five years has slowly unveiled high quality material with an aesthetic that leans towards deep, hypnotic and jazzy while meandering through a variety of genres, from House to Techno, Downtempo and Nu Disco, while keeping an encompassing thread of musicality throughout. Here, the label offers up the debut EP from label boss, Robi fka Beluga, the project sees him employ his modular set up to create a project that’s emotive, delicate and laden with subtle intricacies.
Opening the EP is ‘Overnight’, laid out across four minutes with choppy vocal chants and crisp organic drums intertwined with an amalgamation of fluttering synth melodies, mesmerising strings, dubbed out stab sequences and a murky sub bass groove throughout. ‘Muscles’ follows next and shifts focus towards complex percussion, serpentine atmospherics, weighty low-end pulsations and modulating tones before ‘Cobra’ rounds out the release and dives deeper via multilayered ethereal synth textures, dreamy bass drones, gritty dubbed out stabs and a stripped back, saturated rhythm.
- Jordan (Elevate)
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released February 23, 2024
Composed using modules: Rings, SY0.5, Eloquencer, Fracture, Erica Drum, Cloud Terrarium, Q-bit Nebulae, Arpitecht, Q-bit Chord, Batumi LFO, Ripples, Frequency Central XVCF, GRM ADSR, Tetrax Organ. Samples were also used and manipulated.
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