Digital Sensation by Jauzas The Shining

Following amazing releases on Last Known Trajectory and New Flesh, Jauzas The Shining returns to us here at Shipwrec with a work of sheer quality. Known primarily as a purveyor of electro, the Frenchman has poked and prodded the expected parameters of the sound for ”Digital Sensation.” Delicate sweeps are shouldered by walls of distortion and a cutting snare in “Digital Sensation.” Eerie and unsettling in one breath, absorbingly close in the next, the opener melts emotive notes with rasping rhythms to produce a daring piece of audio futurism. A slender beat introduces “Intellectual Capacity.” From this shallow foundation grows a track of parred down complexity. Bold keys stab through garbled samples and hi-hats as a distant groove unfurls in the most unexpected way. “Sentinel” is a different beast. Cinematic in its composition, broad bars sail above piercing percussion for a work that balances light and dark tones perfectly. The curtain fall comes in the shape of “The Vision of the Trance.” Beats echo and judder against a bulwark of static for this arcing finale, the decaying bleep of circling satellites orbiting a machine inhabited world below.

Electronic music label from the Netherlands, founded in 2010 by Ferdi Maks aka DJ Shipwrec.