JDan Project

Artist: Blindmachine + JDan Project
P: 2020
The latest album from Blindmachine and JDan Project duo brings a continuation of passion for exploring the atmosphere of a classic Berlin school. The astronomical thread in the song titles has become the hallmark of musicians, although we also have here a turn to the mysteries of our planet. The first minutes of the album Music in Space and Time take us to the worlds once created on the album Rubycon by the legendary band Tangerine Dream, and this is just the beginning of the experience. Beautiful ambient landscapes in Challenger Deep immediately take us into the world that James Cameron saw diving in a bathyscaphe in the deepest oceanic depth on Earth. There is a lot of the climate of Brian Eno's early records. If you get inspiration, it's only from good examples. The sequential Berlin school returns in the composition Halley Comet, which rubs the atmosphere of progressive electronics with rock-sounding drums. The inspiration of Jules Verne's prose is revealed in the composition Journey to the Center of the Earth. Calm, sparingly arranged with the flowing sound of the solo part, it sways and stimulates the imagination. The album ends with Apicem Purpuram having the character of a musical experiment, and the dynamic Ocean Current 2020, which reminds about the roots of the duo. A very nice record.

Artist: Blindmachine + JDan Project
P: 2020
We know them from previous releases titled Sequential Friends and Cosmos In Your Mind. This year's premiere, titled Planets, is a tribute to astronomy, which is one of the biggest and incessant sources of inspiration for musicians associated with the electronic music scene. The CD contains six compositions dealing with selected planets of the Solar System and its central star. Perhaps this is the beginning of the cycle, because if we received sound pictures dedicated to the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Uranus and Neptune, but Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have to wait for their turn. But the musicians will decide about it. The compositions are kept in an atmosphere of ambient, sound experiments, playing with voice and musical space. The compositions Sun - Cosmic Lantern (the best on the album) and Venus will show familiar and popular Berlin sequences, on which solo parts, broad plans and backgrounds are imposed. These are the brightest moments of the album. Other compositions are artists' fun focused on exploring the possibilities of modern synthesizers and virtual equivalents of old machines. A lot is happening here, but it is not easy to receive music. It should not be an obstacle for duo fans. You can see the search, development, and concept. Have a nice listening experience!

Artist: JDan Project
P: 2018
The Childhood Nature album is, as the name says, a story about childhood, its ups and downs, an aura of carefree play, but also the inner experiences of a child. So much about the ideological layer of the artist's album hiding under the pseudonym JDan, or Jarosław Danielski. And what about the sound tissue? This music is extremely mature, told with flair and not closed in narrow drawers of individual styles of classical electronic music. The compositional and workshop progress is always heard, especially when it comes to recording quality. Dualism childhood-adulthood presented in a very convincing way. The favorite for el-hit is the seventh track Decisions. Recommendation!

Artist: Blindmachine u.a.
P: 2018
The Generator label is preparing a musical feast for fans of classic sequential playing handful drawing from the style of the 70's of the last century created at our western neighbors. The Berlin school dominated the latest proposal of the el-music quintet under Blindmachine's command, who, in various configurations, fills the whole album with compositions. Here we can hear his cooperation with synthesists hiding under the pseudonyms of Drom66, JDan Project, Asuntar (who had already recorded for Generator) and a talented guitarist with the pseudonym of Katod. Music is thrifty in expression, hypnotic, introducing to the world of reflection and mystery. That is everything that constitutes the success of this very old species. As you can see, it still has a large group of devotees not only among the composers themselves, but also the publishers and the most important in this group - listeners. The album contains five compositions with opening over a 20-minute suite Do you remember Berlin? rapidly introducing the earlier achievements of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Titles of subsequent tracks also refer to the classics of the genre, which the fan of sequential landscapes will surely decipher. It seems that the Berlin school has something of immortality, which for many years will ensure a steady supply of interesting releases. Such as the album Sequential Friends.