Sid Le Rock – Invisible Nation (Album – Beachcoma Recordings)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Trance.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Canadian artist Sheldon Sidney Thompsonn is active for more than twenty years now under different monikers. Based in Berlin (Germany) and co-running Beachcome he has launched his newest full length “Invisible Nation”. The work is directly inspired by Native American indigenous peoples.
Content: “Invisible Nation” is a work featuring numerous influences but mainly carried by loops built up with low bass lines. Sid Le Rock injected mysterious sound treatments like flutes and fine bleeps to this work while you’ll also notice passages with chants. The album sounds dark and groovy, sometimes resulting in Trance-like passages.
+ + + : Sid Le Rock stands for a very personal sound featuring familiar influences. The way he brought it all together resulted from a deeply creative approach. The work is minimal but perfect dancefloor stuff. I enjoyed the low bass lines and the transcendental passages which are connected with Psy-Trance. The work features cool cuts but I especially want to mention “Grizzly” and “Raven (Fly On Me)”.
– – – : Despite of the cool sound formula the work becomes a bit predictable after a while.
Conclusion: Dark and minimal, intelligent and groovy music for dungeons.
Best songs: “Grizzly”, “Raven (Fly On Me)”, “Gitchegomee”, “Muskie Lung”, “Eerie Loon”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/sidlerock
Label: www.facebook.com/Beachcomarecords
“Invisible Nation” was released on 1 April 2022 by Beachcoma Recordings. The ten tracks are “Eerie Loon”, “Raven (Fly On Me)”, “Algoma”, “Blind River”, “Muskie Lung”, “Grizzly”, “Nanabozho”, “Gitchegomee”, “Dog Days” and “Mite8ameg8k8 (4 Gr8 Grand-Mother)”.
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About Sid Le Rock
Sid Le Rock is the recording name of Canadian producer Sheldon Sidney Thompson, who has also worked as Pan/Tone. He is based in Berlin and helps run the Beachcoma Recordings label, and his output moves between minimal techno, IDM and dancefloor material shaped by the DIY electronic-music scene.
“Invisible Nation” is his eighth studio album and turns on his own background: Thompson is a tribal member of the Algonquin First Nations, and the record draws on ancestral heritage and ceremonial soundscapes of Native American indigenous peoples. Beachcoma Recordings released it on 1 April 2022, with “Grizzly” and “Raven (Fly On Me)” issued ahead of the album.
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