- Vernon Felicity is another alias of Boris Bunnik, the producer more commonly known as Conforce. Following a limited 12-inch released via Clone in 2011, the Dawning EP on M>O>S sets the project's store out quite convincingly, focusing on slowly unfurling, psychedelic techno. The four tracks here run the gamut in terms of tempo, from mid-set jack to rapid churn, and at times bring to mind the tracky, cosmic jams that Morphosis released in the early years of his Morphine label and for M>O>S. Bunnik throws no great curveballs into the mix, but simply sets the tracks up and allows them to unravel, making for lovely longform exercises in texture and atmosphere.
The title track finds him playing the role of frustrated cosmonaut: a spacecraft's worth of chips, blips, bleeps and radio interference falls into line around a drum machine rhythm that chugs wearily. The acidic bubbles that fizz downwards through "Wrong Notion" have much the same effect, keeping the track firmly grounded in spite of its best attempts to blast into orbit. By comparison, once it explodes into life "Breaking Silence" feels positively weightless, carried along by a sleek, fleet-footed four-to-the-floor beat. It rushes along like a wave constantly on the verge of breaking, until a tremendous shimmer of cosmic dust billows up from underneath to hang in the air far above.
TracklistA1 Dawning
A2 Breaking Silence
B1 Wrong Notion
B2 3