Andreas Davids & Sven Phalanx – A Psychedelic Trip Into Space (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: This is the second work between Andreas Davids (Xotox, Natura Est) and Sven Phalanx (Schattenspiel, Schwarzwald).
Content: The sounds and atmospheres emerging from this production are totally matching with the concept. You instantly get the sensation of entering an astral universe wherein the multiple bleeps are symbolizing stars and the dense atmospheres stand for different planets of the universe. The tracks are driven by slow rhythms, making the global production more accessible.
+ + + : Both artists move on exploring the world of Electro-Ambient music. The titles of the tracks have the name of a planet –except the first and last cut, which are referring to the concept. So nothing really original here, but a fascinating transposition of the concept into sounds and tracks. The composition is well-crafted, even elaborated, accomplished with subtle arrangements and revealing cool sound treatments like crystallene effects. Different spoken samples accentuate the theme as well.
– – – : This project is clearly meant to entertain a very restricted number of fans while it remains a kind of ‘alien’ among the Infacted roster.
Conclusion: This opus confirms the fascination of both protagonists for Ambient music with a little wink to some pioneers in the genre.
Best songs: “Saturn – Rings Of Saturn”, “Jupiter – Element Feuer”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/andreas.davids / www.facebook.com/sven.phalanx
Label: www.infacted-recordings.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Infacted-Recordings/124099254321690
About Andreas Davids and Sven Phalanx
Andreas Davids is an experimental musician born in 1972 in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, and based in Mantinghausen in the same region. He records as Xotox and Natura Est, works as a DJ under the name DJ ANDX, and has been part of the Leipzig collective Disappearance since 2017.
Sven Phalanx is a musician from Frankfurt am Main. He has run the neoclassical and ambient project Schattenspiel and the EBM and industrial project Schwarzwald, and has released under the Sven Phalanx name since 2020. From 2022 he also presented the weekly radio programme "Klangtherapie" on SOS Radio.
The two first worked together on "Broken Galaxies", released by Infacted Recordings in 2020 as an eight-track digital album. "A Psychedelic Trip Into Space" followed in 2021 on the same label as a limited CDr. Sven Phalanx continued on Infacted Recordings with the CD album "Dimensionsbrecher" and the single "Alpha-Alarm" in 2022, and the singles "Schachmatt" and "Reloaded" in 2023.
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