| Erika / Hexagon Cloud |
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| Album: | Hexagon Cloud | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Erika | Added: | Jul 2013 | |
| Label: | Interdimensional Transmissions | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-07-28 | Pull Date: | 2013-09-29 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica, Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Sep 22 | Sep 8 | Sep 1 | Aug 25 | Aug 18 | Aug 11 | Aug 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 20, 2013: | Friday Beats 1600-1900 Early Warning Starfield | 4. | Aug 27, 2013: | Tuesday Beats Part 01 Early Warning Starfield | |
| 2. | Sep 17, 2013: | Tuesday Beats 1700-1930 Early Warning Starfield | 5. | Aug 24, 2013: | Saturday Beats Part 2 North Hex | |
| 3. | Sep 03, 2013: | Tuesday Beats Part 01 Tunneling | 6. | Aug 24, 2013: | Saturday Beats Part 1 Early Warning Starfield |
| Album Review |
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| Jack Wang Reviewed 2013-07-17 | ||
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Erika: Hexagon Cloud Label: Interdimensional Transmissions I love the fact that Erika was a former college radio nerd at WCBN in Ann Arbor. Her knowledge of freeform music comes through in this album. Too often, dance-music DJ/producers rely on tried-and-true formulas for making tracks. Erika, however, challenges the listeners with sci-fi sound collages and irregular, asymmetric tones. The result is unpredictable and often disturbing - in a good way. Erika's ambient electronic tracks on this album are strong (#2 "Early Warning Starfield" & #4 "Tunneling"), and the strong dance-y tracks are #1 "North Hex", #3 "Gardeners", and #5 "Tow Ride". 1. "North Hex" (6:24) - Shimmering tones, deep bassy warbles, a solid beat. Brainy, nerdy tech-house that's forward thinking and mesmerizing. 2. "Early Warning Starfield" (2:45) - Experimental electronica - multiple layers of blipping synths and effects - no beats. 3. "Gardeners" (6:20) - Dubby & deep beats laid out kind of like Miami bass/electro, with space-y synths and a weird little synth warble. 4. "Tunneling" (3:28) - Sinister ambient track - disturbing percussive tones and explosive thunderclaps with spooky synths. 5. "Tow Ride" (6:21) - A really deep and mesmerizing bassline, with claps, and a trippy little echoing tone. Disturbingly funky. 6. "No. 3" (4:54) - Sparse and minimalistic techno. Gentle shimmering tones over a barely-there skeleton of beats and bass. 7. "The Awakening" (6:56) - Exotic synths and sci-fi ambience over a techy-house freamwork. 8. "Metachrosis" (5:36) - An insistent rolling bass and minimal synths, sci-fi effects. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | North Hex | 5. | Tow Ride | |||
| 2. | Early Warning Starfield | 6. | No. 3. | |||
| 3. | Gardeners | 7. | The Awakening | |||
| 4. | Tunneling | 8. | Metachrosis |