Immediately when playing Datastar’s ‘Dont Panic’ EP the listener is thrust into the expansively beautiful ambient electronic cosmos. ‘Blackheart’ is both futuristic and tribal, a convergence of the sounds of a far reaching future and the innate rhythms of our distant past, pulsating with heavy bass and oscillating alien keys that weave in and out between fuzzed synth sounds the EP starts off in an era where sound is almost finished evolving to it’s highest heights. The melodic keys on Nardo reel the listener back to the confines of regular reality, with upbeat drums and a dance-able rhythm still placing you in a trance-like groove. The title track ‘Don’t Panic’ has elements of 80s electro-funk with robotic futuristic orders chanted military-style as commands in a society dedicated to dance as opposed to dystopia. ‘Just Like That’ closes out the experience, a lucid dream lounge,a funky float tank, and another out-of-body groove further expanding the trip that is ‘Don’t Panic’.
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