SSS049 Melorman 'Waves Remixes' will be released this September, featuring artwork by Shift and a great line-up. I'm happy to say that a Northcape remix of Melorman's "Deep" is the first track on the album.
The Northcape mix is up now on soundcloud, feel free to check it out! Giles (better known as @drfrot on twitter) has very kindly reviewed the new album, and emailed me a copy. I'm reposting it below. Many thanks Giles for taking the time to do this!
"Magnum Opus? Close followers of Northcape's own brand of warm, melodic electronica will know there's another release that sits between 2010's masterpiece Captured From Static and this latest offering. It's significant, because Alluvial EP - available for free download at the official Northcape website (http://www.northcapemusic.co.uk/alluvial-ep/) - served as a portent for what was to come in this, his finest hour. Where Captured From Static practically fizzed at times with electronic energy, ranging basslines and playful beats (if you don't already have it, get it now - it's spectacular), Alluvial EP was a much more ambient offering, said to have been inspired by "geology, human prehistory and the idea of 'deep time'- how incredibly long it has taken the planet to evolve". Both releases were outstanding in their own right, and in Exploration & Ascent, their styles have been in some way intertwined to give us the very best of both …indeed you could almost listen to all three in order, with Exploration & Ascent coming as the conclusion to a slowly evolving trilogy - a musical equivalent of his 'deep time', if you like. There is much of Alluvial EP in here - that connection to landscape, the cinematic imagery the sounds evoke - but this time it's done with real intent, as we are taken on a journey from one end of the album to the other. It's a true "long player" in the pre-digital music sense; something we know from interviews that Northcape takes seriously as an artist. So while favourites will inevitably be subjected to repeat plays, it's almost inconceivable to listen to tracks in isolation - not because they wouldn't work; simply because once you've heard the whole album, you wouldn't dre [...]
