"caramel" comes from brandon moeller/beat pharmacy's second full lengthed outing on françois k's wave music sublabel deep space media. the difference between the first album "earthly delights" and the second album "constant pressure" is that while the first one had it's dub influences and reverbed-out soundscapes, most of it was stuck between that area of "lounge" (for a lack of better term) & deep house. "constant pressure" went further into the house territories and amped up the level of dub so to speak.
i don't remember how i got turned onto this track or this project at all but it was likely through sets or internetradio. for me it was that flute and the soundcape that attracted me the track and when i tried to play this in sets at first i used disregard the fact it had a four on the floor rhythm part. infact i used to forget that a kick came in two minutes in because i wanted to do long ambient blends. for some reason i the track i used to play it with also had a distinct rhythm but much slower so it sounded trainwrecky.
the combination of the flute, bongo drums and the bandpassed synthpatch that is being playing through out is quite strong as it has it's progression. all the one shot sounds that brandon moeller throws in every once a while are a bit hit and miss though. i really don't like the bright highpitched sound that he uses as a sign of "here something new is about to happen" and there one sound in the background that just clouds up the rhythm for no special reason.
with the other sounds the flute does come off like how spaceape comes off in most of kode 9's productions and especially like in their "sine of the dub". in that analogy the bongos become the bass and i don't know about that but the flute's presence within all the haze is just remarkably beautiful. great tune.
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