Review: Fresh from delivering his bleep & bass -inspired Dawn of the Underground project, long-serving Swiss producer Dan Piu drops something even more significant - his first full-length excursion in three years. The Mystic Mind is a fantastic showcase of his talents that naturally touches on many of his inspirations - bleep & bass, dub house, Motor City futurism, the classical deep house lusciousness of Larry Heard and so on - while inhabiting its own distinctive sound world. Highlights are plentiful, from the dubby deep bleep bliss of 'RIP Venus 2088 AD' and the acid-flecked, intergalactic house/techno fusion of 'Greys', to the sunset-ready bliss of 'The Abyss', the bleep-meets-proto-trance dancefloor psychedelia of 'Resilient Love's Melody (Trance Mix)' and the deep, melodic and tactile techno wonder that is 'Poseidon's Dreams'.
… Read more