Ian Boddy & Dave Bessell
Polarity
CD / DL DiN87 DiN
2024
One of my favourite electronic albums from 2024, this. Beautiful drift. And it’s a live performance! If you dig synthesiser music and you’re not familiar with the UK’s DiN label I urge you to address that at your earliest convenience. DiN is a long-running label featuring the top-quality output of many interesting modular and synthesizer boffins, not least that of label head Ian Boddy himself. Polarity was recorded at Awakenings; a music event organised by Phil Booth, Dave Buxton and Jez Creek at Lea Hall Pavilion, Rugely on 25th November 2023. Ian Boddy plays a modular set-up augmented by Moog Matriarch and Buchla Easel Command, while Dave Bessell uses his own Eurorack equipment with Minimoog and Moog Sub 37 alongside a Vermona Perfourma and electric guitar. The music engages me from the get-go; propulsive, although definitely on the “ambient” side of electronica, the ideas flow fast and don’t let up. The sheer presence of the material is impressive, as you would expect from modern synthesiser music, and extra props should go to Phil Booth, the evening’s soundman. One of the best live electronica recordings I’ve heard this year, and I’ve been lucky enough to be exposed to some great live electronic performances this year from Mirror System, Entropy Zero, Armatures, Mazenta Z, and l’Anarchie Flotant.
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