Aril Brikha - Deeparture in Time

this record fucking rules my god. every sound is just so perfect and round, just like pure lushness and depth. i was listening to this today lying on my couch before a storm came in and it was so perfect, just so chill and dreamy. kind of reminds me a bit of Sterac - but imo Aril has a deeper sound, Steric's is a bit more clean (in a good way though, no dis). anyway, just wanted to have a thread for us to post about this one.

https://artofvengeance.bandcamp.com/album/deeparture-in-time-revisited

I agree. I listened to this for almost the first time a while ago and it was pretty amazing. It sounds like a million bucks.

Haven’t heard this one in ages but always loved it. Time for a relisten.

Yup. Love Aril's work!

To me, Aril is more about what "they call" Tech Soul. Or soul techno. Sterac is more techno, imo. Slightly more emphasis on the rhythms and the dance floor. With Aril, when I imagine his work being plaid on the dance floor, I'd probably stop dancing and just be mesmerised by the melodies and all that. Despite there def being a strong beat underneath. It's the Acid Eiffel experience, I guess. If Laurent Garnier only made tracks like Acid Eiffel, he'd probably end up somewhere where Aril Brikha is.

Aril Brikha is always worth a listen, will need to revisit this one!

Have every moment and nuance of this wonderful album memorized. Superlative in every respect. Less is more. One small gripe is that it starts kind of slow— first few tracks are probably my least favorite. Fuknit is goated but there are so many other good ones.

Happy memory: seeing moodymann in Helsinki and he ended his set with groove la chord. Fucking destroyed the place absolutely everyone going mental. He was drunk as shit and just fucking around in the booth but it didn’t matter because the track is 10/10.

There’s something like 4 pieces of kit on this entire album. Insane. Take note gearslutz

Great record, thanks for the reminder. One of very few techno albums that comes close to Deep Space.

Yah, it's good and properly balanced, unfortunately he soon became a sort of normie melodic tech producer. 

Tho my favourite track from him is not on Revisited and came a couple of years later, a sort of mid ground between sensitive minimalist Detroitism on Transmat and all-out poppy disco-trance vibes that came later. It's also self-aware in lyrics "Clarity. Simplicity. Perfection"

I'm reminded not of Sterac, but another Dutch dood Joris Voorn's early stuff (It ain't Our World), it's also faster and clubbier, but has the same type of construction:

I love it, seems pretty timeless now

Groove La Chord.  Nuff said.

another great aril track from that era that was on an francois K compilation or something. 

  On 9/16/2021 at 6:31 PM, dr lopez said:

another great aril track from that era that was on an francois K compilation or something. 

Didn't know he released that one too, heard it in the same live with Simplicity, my another fave this one then, thanks.

It sounds like he re-used the drum pattern on More Human from Ex Machina (2007)

https://artofvengeance.bandcamp.com/track/more-human

  On 9/14/2021 at 1:44 AM, Alcofribas said:

this record fucking rules my god. every sound is just so perfect and round, just like pure lushness and depth. i was listening to this today lying on my couch before a storm came in and it was so perfect, just so chill and dreamy. kind of reminds me a bit of Sterac - but imo Aril has a deeper sound, Steric's is a bit more clean (in a good way though, no dis). anyway, just wanted to have a thread for us to post about this one.

 

https://artofvengeance.bandcamp.com/album/deeparture-in-time-revisited

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That was a nice throwback. I completely forgot about this record, and I grooved on it plenty back in the day. Thanks.