Abandoned CyberWorld – Luke Tangerine (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

If Digital Sin offered us a more pulsing, pumping and powerful blend of futuristic, clubland synth music, Abandoned CyberWorld is a track built from more spacious and seductive  tones. It’s like you have been partying hard all night on the main dance floor at the Club at the End of The Universe, and now you want to catch your breath and to do so have wandered into the chill-out zone.

I mean, it’s still a scintillating, sonic vision of the future, still cutting-edge stuff, and it still looks very much to the bright new musical horizon rather than glancing back at what has gone before; it’s just that here; there is a subtle and supple change of pace.

Luke Tangerine is a visionary, someone not concerned with repackaging the past, preferring to build the future, which he does so through infectious digital beats and synth washes, in turn cut through with piano motifs and electronic soundscape layered one on the other to create intrigue and ornateness rather than merely music weight or clumsy sonic force.

But Abandoned CyberWorld is still impactful but achieves its goals through waves of interlocking musical intrigue, through addictive drives that, for a nice change, are part of the creative whole rather than the main event.

The future is bright; the future is Tangerine, to paraphrase a famous advertisement.