Based in Berlin but with Italian roots, Draccar has been making waves with dark and exotic techno sounds that have found their way into the bags of DJs like Maceo Plex, Richie Hawtin and Carl Craig. He loves creating lush soundscapes that mix crisp textures with more intricate designs and warm atmospheres designed for warehouse implementation. His label Lush Point is a home for this work and the latter is another fine statement.
Draccar manages to create unique and cinematic landscapes, full of character and good judgment. But this proposal is also a lesson, a way of understanding not only music, but culture, beyond the precariousness that currently prevails, as something dispensable, as if music, books or art did not save us. Forget about this magmatic present for a moment, close your eyes and let yourself be carried away by each one of the notes proposed by this singular producer, because within 'Leclipse' he is safe and it seems that everything is starting again.
The songs that are recorded on this album show the particular way of understanding Draccar's sound, located at the opposite end of what is commercial, what works, what works: what he does is, on the contrary, a kind of unstable magma of pulsations and glows, with melodic traces and blurred textures, pursuing a serene, spiritual, almost ascetic expression. All those languages and influences from which they drew dialogue on this record, creating new, different and highly evolved sound organisms.
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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