METEORITES are back from the silence of outer space with an EP titled “Transform the Waves”.
Max Turner resumes his work as Vocalist after a sabbatical period of 5 years in India where he encountered the musical spice that seems to drive this sweetly scented catalog and joins the loosely flavoured rap he has come to be known for with more elaborate melody.
Marcus Rossknecht is a DJ and producer from Berlin, constantly touring the world to direct videos and create music. He describes his style as 'organized sound' and himself not as a musician but rather 'a worker in rhythms and frequencies'.
Their first official release since a string of original material and remixes that marked their debut on Cristian Vogel's Rise Robots Rise Records in 2003, this four track EP deals a beautifully cinematic punch to a time in which most sonic retail is reduced to digital compression and void of analog winds.
As the Ep’s song “Blood & Stardust” suggests, the sounds are borderline sci-fi and strangely esoteric with a caribbean edge and quality modular synths bubbling up between thick bass lines, jumpy mute guitars and cosmic choirs.
The drum programming has a decisively individual twist, opting for finely crafted airyness that reminds more of tablas and middle eastern elegance than classic drumkits, pairing samples with real percussion to produce an original pallet of rhythmic color, while hardly reffering to fill ins. Reverbs and echoes are used sparingly too, so as not to obstruct the songwriting, and while the titles retain a distinct sense of loop based track culture that explores costumes of song structure and elaborate arrangement the rhythms remain dinstinctly minimal, whilest pairing a sense of experimental production with well studied pop appeal.
For the visual side of things Michael Evidon, art director at ACNE Studios Stockholm, has designed the cover artwork featuring a photography of Berlin based artist Philipp Bünger.
