Duoscience - Freestyle (Album Review)

                   

Drum N Bass all day right here; Duoscience aka Edu Ventura is an awesome find coming from the South American Electronic Music scene. This is his only original album so far but I’m glad he dropped it, so I’ll flow over the goodies I has for others’ approval in posterity (and in retrospect).

Released: April 09, 2012
Label: Celsius Records

         
          Tracklist:

·        Interlude 1

·        Don’t let me go

·        Desert Moon (Mage Remix)

·        Where I’m from

·        Asking

·        L-Okubo

·        Interlude 3

·        Your Eyes

·        Empty Can (feat. MsDos)

·        Better Days (Feat. Seb Bruen)

·        Definition (feat. N4m3)

·        Astral Travel (feat. Scott Allen)

·        Let Me Know (feat.  Skyeyes)

·        Eve

·        Interlude 02

 Don’t Let Me Go” is a great first track, the repetition of “go” in the chorus is extremely catchy. I know DnB dance-steppers will go in heavy on this.

“Desert Moon” is one of the best on the album, fast-paced Liquid Funk, very smooth and hard-hitting; the high-pitch female vocals soar similar to something from Uplifting Trance.

“Where I’m From” is laid-back for play in the background, and “Asking” is mostly laid-back, but has some unexpected vocal samples. They mixed well pace-wise, but I don’t like the lyrics themselves too much; probably because there’s a mainstream element of modern Hip-hop, though I wonder where he sampled it from (if he did). Also, and it was about 2 minutes longer than it needed to be.

Good glitchy piano in “L-Okubo”; ultimately another good ‘let-it-flow’ in the background type  song.

This combo from Duoscience and N4M3 with the atmospheric “Definition” makes up for “Astral Travel” afterwards, which had a good intro, and not a bad track, but semi-generic.

“Let Me Know” has the best vocals on the album by an artist named Skyeyes. Interesting to hear R&B/Neo-Soul within DnB. Pretty awesome.

“Eve” is my favorite song on the album; no problem with repetition here, feeling it the whole way through. Visually, this song works on very fast-action-oriented Japanese anime. It took me there.

And yes, the interludes were numbered like that originally... messes with your mind I know...

Favorites/Recommends:

Desert Moon

Your Eyes

Empty Can

Definitions

Let Me Know

Eve

Ratings: 

Lyrics: 8/10

Variety in Musicality: 8/10

Catchiest Song: Eve

Replay Value Overall: High