DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Artemis – Inner Worlds / Sun Stars

1998

After nearly Six years operating a label with the extensive and solid back catalogue we’ve covered so far, Good Looking was heading into 1998 with its flight path stretching onwards. Earth, 720, Diverse (just the single release), Ascendent Grooves and Looking Good were all boosting the output too, by this time. 

  Now, I do have a question as to whether this is the promo of the main release in a Promo sleeve? Both labels on both releases look identical, and I bought this at Record Basement where I was getting a fair number of promos, but I just never really knew which release I had, unless it’s denoted by being in a Promo sleeve? Can anyone dig further into this? Paul Bendell, you may have some answers? Needless to say, the music is all gravy and that’s all that matters, but it would be good to confirm. 

   The design duties had also been shifted from Public Art, to Propeller Ltd. Obviously on this release we don’t get the images, but there’s a good amount to follow on some others, just around the corner. 

   Artemis returns for his second 12” single release on Good Looking Records, with yet another serving of those unrivaled spells he cast out to us cravers of this sweet music. ‘Inner Worlds’ spins you out of the trajectory you had always come to know and love, and raises things even further than you could possibly imagine. Oliver Lomax had a talent for making wave after wave of the most textured and sensational music. This is not just high quality drum and bass, but a godly descent into the whole music world. When you send that volume control clockwise a few more degrees, you get to absorb every little note, key, beat, and sound as it conjures up one of those moments where life can take a back seat at the far end of your mind and you can split open the cranial desires and sonic flavors in its most wondrous season of natural elegance. This tune sends you to the furthest escape possible and lets the soul become free. Artemis made life become real. The perspective his music gave was out of this world and put so many areas into the sidelines of priority. Nothing was ever less than perfection. A true talent of our times. If the breakdown in this tune doesn’t leave you in a state of transfixed ecstasy then you’ll have to check yourself in I’m afraid. Medicine like this cures the phantoms and bursts the seeds of heaven throughout its duration.  

    On the reverse side of this plate for Side AA, is ‘Sun Stars’ and a soothing bass infused journey through the mystical realms of Artemis’ tools and creative channels. This side has a more live approach and nets the almost evangelical flush of pure radiance, coursing a glow within while listening to it. The attention to all the details, the levels, the natural balance that you know doesn’t come easy, is portrayed within this track. 

   Olly Artemis could be blindfolded with his hands tied, and pushed into a river and he’d walk across it. The guy had something in his artillery that very few producers find. He had a knack for putting out and demonstrating the strength in music while turning acoustic art into a highly emotional and mind travelling backdrop to sweep the hurdles away and extend a glass runway for the voyage into a world that sets this one to the side. 

  Olly Shogun was truly sitting on a summit that many only caught glimpses of, up there in the clouds.