Music
Parallel Space
EchocordEchocord 084
Techno
12"
£9.99 (£11.99 incl. VAT)
A. Creation Dub B. Drift C. Parallel Space D. Parallel Space (Conforce Remix)
Forest Drive West delivers the ‘Parallel Space’ EP via Copenhagen’s Echocord this December,
backed with a remix from Conforce.
London’s Forest Drive West has gained widespread recognition as a purveyor of raw and emotive
techno over the past few years, releasing material on the likes of Livity Sound, Hidden Hawaii,
Neighbourhood and Whities. Here though see him returning to Echocord following his recent remix of
Babe Roots on the imprint earlier this year.
‘Creation Dub’ leads, fusing echoing dub chords and off-kilter drums with cavernous atmospherics
and pulsating low-end tones before ‘Drift’ edges into darker territories with murky synth textures,
glitched out percussion and tension building drones creating a hypnotic and subtly nuanced six and a
half minutes.
Title-track ‘Parallel Space’ then opens the B-Side, bring the rhythmic aspects into the spotlight this
time as bumpy broken drums, a rounded sub line and oscillating percussion ebb and flow amongst
hazy pads, fluttering echoes and expansive reverbs. Conforce’s take on ‘Parallel Space’ rounds out
the package next and the Delsin regular delivers a typically classy interpretation with choppy bass
stabs dynamically driving the composition as snippets of the original’s ethereal textures and spiralling
percussion are weaved within.