A new remedy has just arrived for all of those who aren’t familiar with any achievements of the so-called “musical voyages” genre. Its form – a silver disc with „Pako & Frederik -Atlantic Breakers” label on it, released by Global Underground.
The title speaks for itself – we’re going on a musical journey across the Atlantic lead by a couple of dutchman - Pako (Sekander Raisani) & Frederik (Frederik Borgesius). Let’s begin with the Intro (containing samples from 2001 Space Odyssey), which in this particular case functions as a prologue in a good story – not only it tells about future events, but also leads us into a specific path of perception. The path is inseparably connected with delicate, mysterious and melancholic moods, known from such productions as Nick Warren’s GU:24. This subtle character is a landmark for the first three tracks presented by Pako & Frederik. If we decide to add two of the following songs to this bucket, we end up with something like a first-part of this record. For it is divided into some very distinguishable stories – the introductory part, characterized by chill-out moods, the second chapter containing slightly more energetic tracks and the closing section with “Make Me”, which works as a sort of outro for the whole record. Let’s dig into the details though…
Profound, soulful, yet still dynamic – this is the most compact description of the first few songs from „Atlantic Breakers”. Since the very beginning the attention of listener is caught by a perfectly working rhythm section, with bass playing the first fiddle. It seems here, that we are dealing with live instruments, but it turns out that it’s the use of innovative device called BRM (Bass Rumble Machine) invented by the Japanese. No matter how they achieved this – the initial part of the record is a successful piece of music with highlights such as „Timeflex” and „45 minutes”. The latter containing drum beat similar to hard rock patterns. In my opinion it is surely one of the finest bits of the entire album. Still nothing’s perfect and there are little faults in here as well. Those include the overuse of kinda Motown, hip-hop scratches in certain places like in “O – Group”.
As we approach another quality track - „Pintan Alley”, severe changes take place. We switch from subtle to more anxious melodies. This inner-fear waking song is equal in it’s suggestiveness to best catastrophic movies soundtracks. Very interesting part, after which the successive fruits of Pako’s & Frederik creative output do not taste equally good. You probably have to get use to them, and that’s a more complex process. Only „Systematic” which was released as a separate single, stands out of the crowd. I won’t mention the name of the following track on purpose because it’s a misunderstanding. Primitive gap fillers do not deserve any credit.
The last stage of our journey is opened with a well-known „Western Approaches”, which was released on vinyl back in 2002. That’s why I won’t pay too much attention to it, but as you probably already know it’s very solid stuff. The album is crowned with 7 minute lasting outro – “Make Me”… and that’s about it! End of transatlantic expedition courtesy of Pako & Frederik.
Overall positive rating is unquestionable. The fact that it’s basically a general-public album is also worth mentioning. You don’t have to be an electronic-music-freak to enjoy this voyage, but if you are one, you will surely find interesting bits on this record, even though it’s not a ground-breaker.
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