Fantastic Man – Trojan Force [OYSTER42]

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Artist: Fantastic Man
Label: Kalahari Oyster Cult
Genre: Electronic
Release date: 05 Aug 2022

Tracklist:
Alltogethernow
Bioxy
Alpha
Trojan Force

Esteemed proponent of outré dancefloor manoeuvres, Superconscious Records co-founder Fantastic Man makes his Kalahari debut proper.

Having shown up for rework duties on a couple of occasions, we find the mutable oddball at his most trippy and esoteric. In fact, OYSTER42 is the handiwork of a producer who has his formula of balmy, lysergic dance music down to an exact science.

『Alltogethernow』 gets on a swaggering cosmic tip, all sub-loaded and celestial as levitational arpeggios and funked-up groove dovetail to mesmeric effect. 『Alpha』, on the other hand, takes a vision quest through enchanted jungle terrain. Initiating with a hypnotic ritual chant, it』s tunnelling and murkily psychedelic; occulted dancefloor rapture tailor-made for the wormhole interior.

As if it were some artefact from a distant 『90s utopia, Bioxy』 evokes a time when warehouse parties littered the Melbourne landscape. Where its predecessor evokes ceremony and ritual, this is an anachronistic, dilated flashback to simpler times. FM kicks it languid and life-affirming on the closing number. Radiant synth lines flutter with a gentle headiness as 『Trojan Force』 takes us full circle with a reprise of the rainforest FX.