Out now is the newest single by Emika & Rødhåd who united for the track “I Knew Your Name Before You Were Born”. The track is taken from part two of Emika’s “Vega” trilogy, a collection that shifts between synths, minimalist piano, and pounding techno.

On “Vega” you can expect collaborations with Horace Andy (Massive Attack), Leila Moss (The Duke Spirit) and Robert Ames. All in all it celebrates 10 years since the release of Emika’s debut self-titled album on Ninja Tune.

Check out the single below.

About Emika

Ema Jolly aka Emika, is an English electronic musician of Czech origin currently residing in Berlin. Since 2009, Emika has appeared on tracks with the likes of Pinch, Kryptic Minds, Paul Frick and MyMy.

Her self-titled debut album was released in October 2011 via Ninja Tune preceded by several single: her debut single “Drop the Other”, the second single “Double Edge” (May 2010), “Count Backwards” (April 2011) and “Pretend/Professional Loving” (September 2011).

Since then she released various albums, mini-albums and singles next to a string of collaborations.

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Genre/Influences: Ambient-dance, IDM.

Background/Info: Australian musician Paul Handley has already been active for quite a long time and has been involved in different music projects. After a hiatus of several years Handley is now back on track unleashing 2 new songs (plus 1 remix) while a new full length is in the pipeline.

Content: It’s not an easy thing to define the sound of this artist. He clearly sounds inspired by electronics and ambient atmospheres, but still with some danceable elements, which are mainly running through the title song. The other song left is more into astral sound atmospheres with some IDM-flavor on top.

The remix of the title song has been made by Berliner based artist Emika. Notice by the way all songs are instrumentals.

+ + + : The title song is a fascinating piece of ambient & dance music with some industrial-like effects on top. The ambient aspect has been accentuated on “Auxillary Feed (First Version)”, which reveals a rather sophisticated, but efficient writing.

– – – : I can imagine some sampled choirs and/or a few vocal parts could inject something extra to the work, but the artist clearly chooses for an instrumental version. It’s a cool production, but maybe without a total climax.

Conclusion: Paul Handley mixes different elements with each other creating an exciting ambient sound carried by some intelligent dance ingredients.

Best songs: “For The Love Of Something”, “Auxillary Feed (First Version)”.

Rate: (7).

Band & Label: www.facebook.com/paulhandleymusician

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