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01. Awe Kid - Eve
02. Awe Kid - Atavistic Paths
03. Awe Kid - Planar
04. Awe Kid - Converge
05. Awe Kid - Sublimate
06. Awe Kid - Zenith
07. Awe Kid - Proxi Vector
08. Awe Kid - Hibernation Sequence
09. Awe Kid - Body Logic
10. Awe Kid - Eve(r)
ARTIST
TITLE
Body Logic
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ATMV 093LP ATMV 093LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/3/2022

Awe Kid explores ideas of trans-humanism, evolution and digital immortality on Body Logic, a fantastically lush new album for Atomnation. The immersive ten track record plays with organic, breathing textures punctuated by moments of digital unreal-ness to result in an album permeated with a dream-like quality. This contrast is mirrored by the artwork from Portugal's acclaimed The Royal Studio. Awe Kid is an alias of Sine Language Records co-founder Rick Parsons. It is the product of years spent exploring a multitude of different music. From early days in post-hardcore groups and on to a love of '90s Warp, electronic jazz, and more experimental niches, the multi-instrumentalist has now settled on his own unique fusion of breaks, ambient and left-field dance music. This deft studio wizard mixes up melodic nostalgia with forward-thinking sound design using whatever he can get his hands on, from analog and modular hardware, to samplers, field recordings to digital techniques. Says Parsons, "I love working with digital processes because you get these unexpected moments where you dial something in, that somehow takes on a tangible, organic form in the real world. Searching for these sweet spots was the motivation for the album, contrasting natural textures against synthetic elements, and finding ways to create something that feels like it exists outside of the computer." While the album pays homage to dance music traditions, such as the broken beat of title track "Body Logic", and full-throttle breaks of "Zenith", these are assimilated and repurposed to create something that defies genre categorization. The listener's journey is perfectly paced, with broody but uplifting cuts of electronica giving way to shimmering, celestial melodies, and dusty breakbeats emerging from dense layers of atmosphere, only for the mood to be reset with soothing, suspenseful synths and haunting vocal samples. Elsewhere, devastatingly emotional ambient is followed by punchy grooves and propulsive melodies to make for a real ride.