During 2020, in the midst of the mandatory isolation caused by the pandemic, the producers Patokai and Fabiodalex clandestinely preserved themselves in a Berlin basement, sharing the urgent need to feel hope. Seeking asylum in music, they quickly embarked on a joint creative process that led to Where Dreams Don't Die (WDDD), an album of eight powerful glow-in-the-dark electronic songs.
With AKAI MPC Live as a composition and production partner, the new album owns an intense and electric sound that looks with equal fear and admiration to the future as to the past, always looking for answers and some light in both directions. Thus, influences such as The Prodigy, Daft Punk and Primal Scream connect with the pop of The Weeknd, the aesthetics of Back to the Future and the dystopian imaginary of George Orwell, resulting in a roller coaster of emotions in which we find cries of despair. and also mantras to maintain balance and calm.
The work as a whole manages to provide introspection, an absorbing energy and twilight light with intricate rhythms. The more this work is heard, the more difficult it is to place it in a specific geographical place. His music seems to never solidify, to be a flow of sounds and impressions that never seem to remain fixed in place or memory, like a perfume or a quick vision of a body in motion, until it postulates as one of the true future values of tame and lustrous electronics.
The idea that drives this album refers us to one of the crucial attributes of music, and it is its inexhaustible capacity to generate moods that protect us at all times. Its meaning remains in the hands of lovers of electronic music, beyond the dance floor and all hedonism.
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