Belgium’s Fabrice Lig is up there with Detroit giants when it comes to pure, scintillating electronic music busting with ideas and performed with passion. The fact that he’s appeared on labels like KMS, 7th City, Playhouse, Kanzleramt and F-Comm speaks for itself but this album plants him firmly up there in the highest reaches of the techno firmament. [There’s also a DJ-friendly vinyl/download taster about called ‘Evolutionalsim Part 1’]. The underlying theme is environmental decay and how it affects him, the music spiritual and vibrant, linked with occasional spoken dissertations. Fabrice can give the dancefloor a good seeing-to on tracks like ‘The Power Of A City’, which plants strong female vocals over a contagious house groove, but is most exciting when mining the deepest stratas of his imagination on tracks like ‘DDNA’ or ‘Children Of Galapagos’, one of the year’s most euphorically-gorgeous peaks. The collaboration with Ken Ishii, ‘Australow-P-Tek Funk’ heists Cameo’s ‘Word Up’ and there’s a top version of Herbie Hancock’s ‘Rockit’. It’s best to hear the whole journey all in one fell swoop so Fabrice’s message can shine through and the full impact of his breathtaking musical spectrum can be properly appreciated.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
