Oforia AKA Ofer Dikoysky is one of Israel’s leading hard dance producers. Having mixed trance since 1994 and played the guitar since childhood, Oforia’s many varied influences shine through brightly in this album as boundries between electronic dance music and ‘real’ guitar music are pushed to their extremes.
I was exceptionally lucky to be able to make it to Antiworld’s ‘Break The System Down’ @ SE1 last Saturday and witness Oforia’s UK debut, live! I was not disappointed and neither were any of the 100’s of smiling (and slightly sweaty) faces I could see all around me.
Headed For Infinity starts of with the recently released single ‘Northern Lights’. This track begins with a warm but tough kick using electronic saws to chop in and out giving a feeling deep electro trance with an element of funk. The track progresses into a very short break before kicking immediately back in with a wibbly-wobbly electric didgeridoo sounding 303. This works beautifully almost forcing you to uncontrollably twitch various parts of your body in time with the funk. As if that wasn’t enough, the track then switches to an absolutely amazingly funky guitar riff that reminded me a tiny bit of an old track called ‘Running’ on the German Mindworx label.
The next track takes a slightly more relaxed trancy lead using perfectly placed psychedelic sounds and progressing the album into the title track ‘Headed For Infinity’. This is a slightly dirtier track and confirms that the album means business. Again, the production is spot on with every single sound introduced with precision and perfection, slipping into place comfortably and still managing to keep that original element of funk with the baseline.
‘High Gear’ sounded like what Lab-4 might sound like if they were domesticated, tamed and given a few sedatives to slow them down…again the hard trance riff gives this track a drugless ‘rushy’ feeling that makes you wish you were standing next to a super large sub-woofer in order to gain maximum baseline soakage.
The rest of the album is of equal quality with tracks such as ‘Machines Job’ using incredibly buzzy, warm electric baselines. A track that did make me laugh out loud is the penultimate track on the album, ‘Cyber Hiker’. This is purely because it reminds me of when my parents used to complain that my music sounded like “pots and pans” – they want pots and pans? Have some of this! The intro sounds like it is literally sampling pots and pans but to real good effect…you’ll have to listen to it yourself to see what I mean.
Track Listing:
1.Northen Lights
2.Beams Of The Light
3.Headed For Infinity
4.High Gear
5.Anti Gravity
6.Sirius
7.Machines Job
8.Cyber Hiker
9.Substance
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