ARTIST:.......: Ian Boddy TITLE:........: Axiom TYPE:.........: Retail LABEL:........: DiN CATNO:........: DiN64 GENRE:........: electronic LANG:.........: English QUALITY:......: 320 kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo CODEC.........: LAME 3.100 SOURCE:.......: WEB GRABBER:......: UKW TRACKS:.......: 6 SIZE:.........: 98.20 LENGTH........: 00:40:52 RELEASE YEAR:.: 2020-00-00 RIP DATE:.....: 2022-05-11 T R A C K L I S T -------------------- 1. Omicron 6:17 2. Nitro 7:41 3. Boddy Love 5:58 4. Icon 9:29 5. The Fallen 5:20 6. Axiom 6:07 ----- Total 40:52 min R E L E A S E N O T E S ------------------------- http://din.org.uk/album/axiom-din64 DiN label boss Ian Boddy has been composing and releasing music since 1980 and in the intervening 40 years has seen Electronic Music grow and evolve almost beyond recognition. One aspect of this constant change which elicits a wry smile from Boddy is how in the 1990Æs analogue and modular synths almost went extinct whereas in recent years there has been a huge resurgence in these analogue technologies. Furthermore whole sub-genres, such as Synthwave, have grown up which reference the electronic music of the 1980Æs. At the start of 2020 Boddy was asked by the artist Bluetech to contribute a track for an upcoming compilation album (Portals) lovingly curated to reflect the Kosmische music heritage of many of the musicians involved in this project. BoddyÆs track ôOmicronö with its cascading arpeggios, soaring synth choirs and deep Moog bass proved a heady mixture that was used in the promo video for this release. This got Boddy to thinking that perhaps a full solo studio album in this style would be a creative goal worth pursuing and thus we have the release of ôAxiomö (DiN64) as the result of that exercise. The six tracks on ôAxiomö certainly reference BoddyÆs musical roots with its pulsating sequencer passages that hark back to the Berlin School sequencing of Tangerine Dream, most especially on the powerhouse track ôNitroö. The self referential track ôBoddy Loveö is an in joke with a nod to a classic 70Æs Klaus Schulze album and features a gorgeous melodic sequence line that steadily grows to a beautiful climax before gently fading into the distance. Elsewhere ôIconö with its subsonic bass throb and veil of orchestral strings climbs to a sonic summit before crashing down to the sublime and emotional piece ôThe Fallenö. Closing out the album the title track bookends the albums opener ôOmicronö with a slice of Synthwave that has it all from analogue sequences, vintage drum machines and soaring chords for an emotional, joyous journey.