Blush Response – Reconstitution (Album – Megastructure)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electro, Techno.
Format: Digital, Cassette.
Background/Info: American-Cuban producer Joey Blush -based in Berlin (Germany) released its second album during the pandemic. The work is however meant as a sequel to the album “Reshaper” released in 2016 on Ant-Zen.
Content: Blush Response remains a sonic enigma. This album confirms the Experimental style of the artist who is definitely not into ‘stereotypical’ Techno music. I’m not even sure it’s meant to be Techno music, but more a sonic cocktail featuring different influences like Techno, Ambient, Minimal-Electro and Industrial. The result is an Experimental sound driven by Techno beats mixed with raw sound treatments and dark atmospheres.
+ + + : Blush Response confirms its unique approach, which might be considered as visionary and innovative. It’s a complex composition carried by the magic of analogue sound treatments. It’s another dimension of Techno music, but still of Experimental- and Ambient music. Joey Blush is collecting different influences to create his own sound elixir. I like tracks such as “Spiritual Bypass” for the filtered sequences and “New Ways To Pray” for its intriguing, dark atmosphere. The atmosphere becomes even more oppressive with “Psyker”.
– – – : Blush Response isn’t exactly the most accessible artist, this album being more Experimental than ever before.
Conclusion: Blush Response never stops exploring new sonic paths, but never repeats itself. Techno music from outer space.
Best songs: “Spiritual Bypass”, “New Ways To Pray”, “Psyker”, “Flow My Tears”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/blushresponseofficial
Label: www.facebook.com/megastructurelabel
About Blush Response
Blush Response is the solo electronic project of Cuban-American producer and sound designer Joey Blush. The project started in New York City and moved to Berlin, Germany. Blush also runs the Megastructure label, which issued this album.
The project built up a long series of self-released digital singles and EPs from 2009 onwards, among them “Reduce You” (2009), “Control Freak” (2010), “America” (2012) and “The Drift” (2014, Basic Unit Productions). The album “Reshaper” followed in 2016 on Ant-Zen, and the “Nano Mechanism” EP arrived in 2017 on RND. Records. “Exodus” and the compilation “Arkive 20XX” were both released in 2020.
“Reconstitution” was released on 31 August 2021 and holds seven tracks. Blush described it as the first of two albums written during the pandemic and as a sequel to “Reshaper”.
Blush later worked with Fade Kainer of Statiqbloom on the six-track collaboration album “Folding In”, recorded in Berlin and issued on vinyl by Hands. Both producers discussed that record in the Side-Line feature Statiqbloom & Blush Response interview: ‘Playing with sound, listening, reacting, and building on that’, in which Blush also announced the solo album “Ego Death” on Artoffact Records.
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