

It was in Tomar that he came in contact with Fruity loops/ Cubase / Ableton everything he needed to produce electronic music. He lived in Serpa till he was 22, he then moved to Tomar in 2004. Though his tracks are hard to find, each one is a guaranteed trip! Luis Palma was born in Serpa(Portugal) in 1981 and he's AKA Tricossoma. time to go folks! Its been a whole weekend already! =-) Tricossoma has been creating a frenzy on the dance floor since his first release back in 2006. Seth is not finished yet and declares that everyone Must Play! Elemental is tripping hard on all the Colors and Lights until Fabiuz announces it's a 555. Psy Cut Fingers brings us back to Earth landing deep in the Indian jungle with Bombay Fx. To mix up all these remedies into a carefully measured concoction we now get to go Digital Dimensions and seek the Alquimist. Tricossoma asserts that this is a Walking Trip so no sitting down! Psychoz determines that his Precious Hallucinations don't actually require a cure! MMC agrees that the human race is definitely a Galactic Trasher. Cerebral Factory kicks out a unique batch of goods with Punition Astrale. Audiopathik and Plankton will make you stutter after being exposed the initial prescription. It is only as closer ‘When It’s Gone’ dissipates, leaving only the naked piano and vocals to play it out, that you are finally let go from its grasp.Digital Drugs Coalition presents: PsychoSomatic featuring 11 previously unreleased hard hitting unrelenting mind boggling night psy smashers! Tricossoma combed the world's most obscure and cutting edge psy pits seeking the most effective remedies for his tranceformental sensation with this jam packed dose of psychological panaceas. From the moment it awakes with the slow burning cinematic opener ‘In The Wings’, drifting in to the wistful and skittering ‘Gold’ through the climactic industrial march of the eponymous ‘North’ to the heartbreaking ‘Dear Heartbeat’, it draws you from one track to the next, sweeping you along helplessly as if a single, masterful suite of music. While the album has many outstanding moments, to pick apart the individual songs would be to diminish the immersive and transcendent qualities of the album as a whole – a world which has been painstakingly constructed and from which it is impossible to escape once entangled. Refracting the traditional instrumental prominence of piano and strings through their viscous synths and computerized productions, the album evokes visceral and human emotion that was previously absent, grounding the music in a realism and honesty that belies their earlier incarnations, while still maintaining the poignant otherworldly quality that has always made them so intriguing. Buttery’s heavily processed vocals become another instrument at the hands of the production duo, as they are absorbed into the sonic soundscapes, stuttering through the mesh of hazy synths, straining to pierce it with fleeting moments of clarity. Dense, detailed and melancholic, Darkstar weave an immersive web of sound that has the ability to engulf you completely. Their first two singles for Hyperdub – ‘Need You’ and ‘Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer’ – had already hinted at the nascent realization of this identity, displaying a sense of fragility and melancholy that belied their dancefloor confines, but now, having scrapped nearly a whole album’s worth of material and undergone some drastic structural and sonic changes, they have forged the path that they always seemed destined to take, without restraint.ĭraining away the lurid colours of their earlier releases, ‘North’ is a grayscale synth masterpiece. Given the near-impossible wave of hype that has surrounded them ever since the stunning ‘Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer’ single – one of the most ubiquitous and universally lauded tracks of last year – the decisive move away from the sound that forged their reputation is a brave decision, but undoubtedly one that has paid dividends. Finally stepping out once and for all from the uneasy shadow that the dubstep tag has cast over them up to now, they have unleashed a dark, dense and intensely personal record. On their feverishly anticipated debut album, ‘North’, Darkstar emerge as the musical entity that you get the feeling they have always wanted to be.
