- Artist
- Bliss Inc.
- ReleaseProduct
- Hacking The Planet EP
- Label
- Radiant Love
- Catalogue Number
- RADIANTLOVE002
- Release Date
- August 4, 2020
-
Download
$3.99320 kbps, LAME-encoded
Genres
There is not much information to be found online about Bliss Inc., whose Hacking the Planet EP comes out on Radiant Love this summer. Beyond the fact they’re named Alexander and hail from Saint Petersburg, the project is cryptic – somehow this is fitting for a set of songs that could’ve fallen out of an obscure 1994 catalogue. This is the year of Robert Leiner’s Visions of the Past, Opus III’s Guru Mother, and Paul Oakenfold’s BBC-1 Essential Mix: an aesthetic region in which tech and new age spirituality braid together, a time before this synthesis reached Silicon Valley; while it still lingered in the rave, incredibly sincere, everything sounded kind of wet, and the efficiency of spirit was means to no end but a state of bliss.
What keeps Hacking the Planet from falling into pure nostalgia is its tuning – the palette of 1994 has been lifted and run through a delicate sensibility. The title track is a piece of buoyant, airy trance, with orbiting filters and a set of loopy, very vocal synths. It bumps along at 130 BPM, but feels slower because of the ease and clarity with which the track progresses. “Infinite” has got the aquatic motifs and soft, panning cymbals of a set-opener, or a comedown jam. The break that swings in after a minute-thirty feels less like a punctuation than another stream of sonics joining the flow. Picking up the pace a little, “Transitions” opens with a whir that could issue from a field of crickets or a stack of hardware. The entrance of the bassline was the first moment in this EP one could call nasty. But its drive and weight is also tempered, played against by a clever drum break, a run of piano keys, and the ethereal reverb-washed vocal sample we expect in a piece of classic mid-90’s trance – absent, however, is any kind of signalling to Goa, “exoticism” or indigenous aesthetics. (1994 was also the year of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Les Tatouages collection, which, for all its romantic nomadism and deft tailoring and syncretic spirit, has no need of a 2020 update).
Bliss Inc.’s songs stream, rather than track – one gets a sense that the elements flow in and out rather than ride a structure. Sansibar, who provides a remix of “Hacking the Planet” to round out the EP, is solidly a producer of tracks: often electro-derived ass-shaking material that hits, and hits in recognisable sections that progress serially. His version of the title cut brings in a hefty acid baseline, jungle-style stretched vocals, and kicks out of the 4/4 grid. But let there be no mistake, this is a producer also quite capable of coaxing delicacy out of hardware. The chimes of the lullaby-like breakdown halfway through the remix sound like nothing but a ghost in the machine.
Digital Tracklist
-
1
Hacking The Planet
6:28
Buy
Hacking The Planet
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
2
Infinite
7:23
Buy
Infinite
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
3
Transitions
6:14
Buy
Transitions
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
4
Hacking The Planet
9:12
Buy
Hacking The Planet
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
Bliss Inc.
-
- Artist
- Bliss Inc.
- ReleaseProduct
- Mind 2 Mind
- Label
- Magicwire
- Catalogue Number
- MAGIC020
- Release Date
- May 12, 2023
- EP
Radiant Love
-
- Artist
- Kasra V
- ReleaseProduct
- Hyperdelic EP
- Label
- Radiant Love
- Catalogue Number
- RADIANTLOVE006
- Release Date
- March 16, 2023
- Download
-
- Artist
- E00
- ReleaseProduct
- Peace & Tranquility
- Label
- Radiant Love
- Catalogue Number
- RADIANTLOVE003
- Release Date
- December 4, 2020
- Download
-
- Artist
- Pillow Queen
- ReleaseProduct
- Byrons Theme
- Label
- Radiant Love
- Catalogue Number
- RADIANTLOVE001
- Release Date
- March 16, 2020
- EP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Various
- ReleaseProduct
- Radiant Records IWD Comp Vol 2
- Label
- Radiant Love
- Catalogue Number
- RADIANTDIGITAL02
- Release Date
- March 8, 2020
- Download
-
- Artist
- Fio Fa
- ReleaseProduct
- You Think EP w/ D Tiffany Remix
- Label
- Radiant Love
- Catalogue Number
- RADIANTLOVE000
- Release Date
- November 14, 2019
- Download
1990s
-
- Artist
- The Future Sound Of London
- ReleaseProduct
- By Any Other Name
- Label
- WeMe
- Catalogue Number
- WeMe083
- Release Date
- February 16, 2024
- LP
-
- Artist
- Muslimgauze
- ReleaseProduct
- Kashmiri Queens
- Label
- Staalplaat
- Catalogue Number
- MUSLIMLIM 030DI
- Release Date
- November 19, 2013
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- The Future Sound Of London
- ReleaseProduct
- Presents Pulse Five
- Label
- De:tuned
- Catalogue Number
- ASGDE044
- Release Date
- January 26, 2024
- LP (special)
-
- Artist
- CoLD SToRAGE
- ReleaseProduct
- wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack
- Label
- Lapsus
- Catalogue Number
- LPS-PS14D
- Release Date
- November 17, 2023
- LP
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Earth
- ReleaseProduct
- Earth 2
- Label
- Sub Pop Records
- Catalogue Number
- SPD185
- Release Date
- January 1, 1993
- LP (special)
- Download
-
- Artist
- Dylan Beale
- ReleaseProduct
- Adamantium Rage (Original Soundtrack)
- Label
- Sneaker Social Club
- Catalogue Number
- 5056467362248
- Release Date
- October 27, 2023
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- ReleaseProduct
- Munki
- Label
- Fuzz Club Records
- Catalogue Number
- FC200
- Release Date
- October 6, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
-
- Artist
- CoLD SToRAGE
- ReleaseProduct
- wipE'out'' Intro / DOH-T
- Label
- Lapsus
- Catalogue Number
- LPS-PS14S2
- Release Date
- October 6, 2023
- Download
Dancefloor and Techno
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Recondite
- ReleaseProduct
- Hinterland
- Label
- Ghostly International
- Catalogue Number
- GI190CD
- Release Date
- November 11, 2013
- LP (special)
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Daniel Avery
- ReleaseProduct
- Wonderland / Running
- Label
- Fabric Records
- Catalogue Number
- FRO016D
- Release Date
- April 5, 2024
- 12”
-
- Artist
- Four Tet
- ReleaseProduct
- Three
- Label
- Text Records
- Catalogue Number
- TEXT056D
- Release Date
- March 15, 2024
- LP
- CD
- Bundle
- Download
-
- Artist
- Elisa Bee
- ReleaseProduct
- I Love Acid 029
- Label
- Balkan Vinyl / I Love Acid
- Catalogue Number
- ILA029
- Release Date
- March 22, 2024
- EP
-
- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Place: Chile
- Label
- Air Texture
- Catalogue Number
- PLC009
- Release Date
- March 15, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Nikki Nair, DJ ADHD
- ReleaseProduct
- Where U Find This
- Label
- Future Classic
- Catalogue Number
- FCL618
- Release Date
- March 8, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- Hekt
- ReleaseProduct
- Sync feat. Kevin JZ Prodigy
- Label
- Numbers
- Catalogue Number
- NMBRS72DSYNC
- Release Date
- March 12, 2024
- Download
-
- Artist
- DJ Nobu, Wata Igarashi
- ReleaseProduct
- Flares|泡 (Abuku)
- Label
- Fabric Records
- Catalogue Number
- FRO015F
- Release Date
- March 8, 2024
- Download
Vinyl Reissue
-
- Artist
- The Future Sound Of London
- ReleaseProduct
- By Any Other Name
- Label
- WeMe
- Catalogue Number
- WeMe083
- Release Date
- February 16, 2024
- LP
-
- Artist
- Kleeer
- ReleaseProduct
- Intimate Connection / Tonight
- Label
- Love Vinyl
- Catalogue Number
- LV7002
- Release Date
- April 20, 2018
- 7″
-
- Artist
- Basement Jaxx
- ReleaseProduct
- Kish Kash
- Label
- XL Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- XL174DA
- Release Date
- October 20, 2003
- LP (special)
- Download
-
- Artist
- The Durutti Column
- ReleaseProduct
- Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids
- Label
- London Music Stream Ltd.
- Catalogue Number
- 181298
- Release Date
- December 15, 2017
- LP
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Don Cherry
- ReleaseProduct
- The Summer House Sessions
- Label
- Blank Forms Editions
- Catalogue Number
- BF024DIGITAL
- Release Date
- June 18, 2021
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Eluvium
- ReleaseProduct
- Talk Amongst the Trees
- Label
- Temporary Residence Ltd.
- Catalogue Number
- TRR078
- Release Date
- March 1, 2005
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Who Say Reload Volume One (Original 90s Jungle and Drum & Bass)
- Label
- Velocity Press
- Catalogue Number
- VELOCITYDIG1
- Release Date
- March 24, 2023
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Happy Land
- Label
- Above Board Projects
- Catalogue Number
- HLLPDIG1
- Release Date
- April 14, 2023
- LP
- Download