Review: Synaptic Voyager - Dawn Till Dusk EP (Cyphon Recordings)

This new EP, 'Dawn Till Dusk', is a beautiful  Synaptic Voyager that's take you all day to absorb; the latest release on Cyphon Recordings.

Following on from the recent 'Drop Out EP' by Loxodrome (see review HERE), Cyphon's expanding rosta, that already included some well known names in addition to Jimpster, like Yuu Udagawa ('Forever EP'), Kirk Degiogio (As One), DJ Rocca, Ben Sun (new album - review HERE) as they all continue to explore "wide-ranging sounds from emerging artists, touching on electro, abstract electronica and Detroit-inspired futurism": 'Dawn Till Dusk' in its mere 5 tracks do exactly that.

And by coincidence, I recently saw a clip of a Ritchie Hawtin interview where he was saying in the early days of Detroit Techno, there were doubters that this "electronic music would last" but that he and his early adopter mates were believers; 30 years on, Snaptic Voyager is further evidence of this belief, especially as he hails from a melting pot (Ed. should that be furness) of electronic dance/pop/sythns, Sheffield.

The Snaptic Voyager journey started when Matt White and Paul Baines met in the 90s but it's only recently that they sort to make intelligent synth dance (ISD) and you can't doubt these tracks.  'Stellar Engine' might be viewed a minimal compared to more obvious Kraftwerk-in-Peech Boy NYC-like title track or the synaptic-dreamy 'Lonely Promontory', but it's just as dancey.

And then you could argue, 'Once Exposed' is the engine driver of the spaceship (synaptic) voyager on a mission along with equally intelligent express train banger, 'Cognitive Network'.

The news that Jimpster edited down the original submitted versions is both good and potentially even better news (let's make this release a huge success so we could have a future release of 5X15 minute tracks/a continous mix for CD2?) so, I urge you to be an early adopter of Synaptic Voyager, I'm thinking in the way of Human League's 'Being Boiled' sense, get the 12" ordered sharpish - this is the future!

BUY LINK: https://synapticvoyager.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-til-dusk-ep

 

Artist: Synaptic Voyager
Title: Dawn Till Dusk EP 
Release date: 7th February, 2025
Label: Cyphon Recordings
Catalog Number CYPHN14 
Format: Limited heavyweight vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp