Edition Akasha is a Berlin-based label for electronic sounds, capturing the spirit of Akasha Festival’s sonic diversity beyond its dance floors.
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We’d spent our whole life in a dance of fear. And when we examine that, we realise that very often the thing we were frightened of wasn’t nearly as frightening as the fear.
We’d spent our whole life in a dance of fear.
And when we examine that, we realise
that very often the thing we were frightened of
wasn’t nearly as frightening as the fear.
On the A-side, the garage shuffle and ultra-deep bass wobbles of "Ceramics" corrode beneath its hypnotic strings, while the fast-paced acid lines of "Anthracite" bubble and squeak over a choir of fallen angles. "Memory Rush" captures a similar tension as the engulfing dub chords at its centre ebb and flow on-top a muscular four-to-the-floor pulse to illuminate the darkest of nights. The B-side is equally captivating: Like a gravitational collapse, the stellar melodies of "Incense Trip" break down into a void of razor-sharp percussion only to shine again in full effect thereafter. Lastly, Eira Haul sheds the black holes to ascend to catharsis with "Star Vertigo": "We wanted to try to understand what the fear is [...] and whether that energy is something we can transform - is it our friend, is it our foe?" muses the voice on-top the tender bounce of the title-track's lush framework, leaving us with a lofty sense of hope transcending this exceptional sophomore EP.
Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead
Hang stars like seeds of light
In vain, though not since they were sown was bred
Anything more bright.
Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead
Hang stars like seeds of light
In vain, though not since they were sown was bred
Anything more bright.
Edition Akasha launches with "Forest Beams" by Eira Haul, proudly presenting a sonic crosscut of the Berlin artist’s captivating take on UK textures and tempos, fused by a visceral feel for bright melodic touches. As the rude bass stepper "Forest Beams" rubs shoulders with the jovial, off-kilter techno of "Oak", and the trance trip "Cosmic Body" takes flight towards the introspective halftimer "Kilim", euphoria and melancholy waltz in harmony atop soaring beats throughout this nod to Akasha Festival’s Forest floor. At midpoint, Tornado Wallace compliments the tour de force that is EDAK001 with his "Lights Off Mix" of "Oak" – a cheeky balearic breakbeat rendition bringing summer firmly into focus.
